World on a Wire
(German: Welt am Draht) 1973 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder director
"Meet my Movie" is me humbly introducing SteemIt to a movie I can watch repeatedly, and often do.
I dug deep for something original and largely unknown. Add in the glaring similarities to The Matrix (1999) and I knew this was the one to spearhead this potential series of posts.
A supercomputer simulation, an artificial world with 9,000+ "identity units" who exist there as human beings
Fred is about to get a new job at the cybernetics institute. The previous technical director opted-out inside their data center, something was surely troubling him about their work. The institutes director decides on Fred to succeed in the position. He is even promised a Corvette if he assumes the technical director duties, Freds "dream car". Fred speaks with the head of security concerning the previous director and in mid-sentence, while Fred is distracted, the man vanishes into thin air! Fred clearly remembers him being there even if the entire rest of the institute doesn't recall the man ever existing at all (dramatic music swells)
World on a Wire offers...
Great early 1970s data centers:
snappy euro administrators
upper management shenanigans
unforeseen consequences
World on a Wire is not a "roller coaster" of a movie like so much of visual rubbish we churn out. Its more of a very surreal submersion into decades past and rude awakenings. I cannot recommend more highly. If you like Stanley Kubrick you're going to like Fassbinder's World on a Wire.
Watch World on a Wire now:
Made for German TV in the 1970s I'm reasonably certain it fails under fair use at this point. It's on YouTube so I'll provide the links. I recommend buying the restore version and enjoying the heck out of this mental trip of a movie like I do!
Thanks for reading
World on a Wire: part one
World on a Wire: part two
the trailer:
supporting info:
- On July 20, 2014, the film made its premiere on Turner Classic Movies
- German television and originally aired World on a Wire in 1973, as a two-part miniseries
- Shot in 16 mm, film
links:
http://www.janusfilms.com/worldonawire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire