Came out a little bit after the matrix about a guy who learns his reality is a computer program or a simulation?
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It's an awesome film with an absolutely mind-warping twist two-thirds of the way through.
I always felt like Craig Bierko should have had a much more illustrious career, he played the role so well as the lead.
The movie was basically very layered like Nolan's Inception well before Inception, but worked off the premise of life inside a sim that was introduced in the 1997 movie Nirvana with Christopher Lambert.
I think about The 13th Floor often because we haven't had any movies quite like it since, other than Inception, but Inception is a different beast about dreams, whereas The 13th Floor was about sentient AI.
I saw that Tubi has it and put it in my queue to watch. I need to watch Nirvana. Have you ever read UBIK by Phillip K Dick? Makes me wonder if Inception took a little inspiration from it
I have not actually read UBIK. Thank you for the suggestion. I will add it to my list.
Reading the synopsis definitely seems like Inception borrowed from the general concept. Also sounds like Dick borrowed a bit from Burroughs' Naked Lunch with that one.
Never heard of that one. Will have to look that up