Mam nieco odmienne zdanie. Jedynie co mi się nie podobało to infantylne zakończenie .

Trzynaste piętro (ang. The Thirteenth Floor) – film nakręcony w 1999 r. na podstawie powieści Daniela F. Galouye'a Simulacron 3. Film stanowi wierną ekranizację książki Daniela F. Galouye'a Simulacron 3.
UWAGA SPOILER: Treść może zdradzać fabułę filmu.

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The Thirteenth Floor
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In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) owns a multi-billion-dollar computer enterprise, and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs. When Fuller is murdered just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) who is also the heir to the company, becomes the primary suspect. The evidence against him is so strong that Hall begins to doubt his own innocence.

Between interrogations by LAPD Detective Larry McBain (Dennis Haysbert), Hall meets Jane Fuller (Gretchen Mol), the estranged daughter of Hannon Fuller, who is busy with the shutdown of the new VR system. Hall romances her. When a local bartender claims to have witnessed a meeting between Hall and Fuller on the night Fuller was murdered, Hall is arrested. He is released when Jane gives him an alibi. The bartender is later murdered.

With the assistance of his associate Whitney (Vincent D’Onofrio), Hall attempts to find a message that Fuller left for him inside the simulation. Entering the virtual reality, Hall becomes a banker named John Ferguson. Fuller left the message with a bartender named Jerry Ashton (Vincent D'Onofrio), who read the message and discovered he is an artificial creation. Frightened and angry, Ashton tries to kill Hall. Hall barely survives to escape the virtual reality.

Now unable to find Jane, Hall discovers her double, Natasha Molinaro, working as a grocery store clerk — but Molinaro does not recognize Hall. This leads Hall to perform an experiment outside the VR system, something that Fuller’s letter instructed him to try: drive to a place where he never would have considered going otherwise. He does so, and discovers a place that resembles a wireframe model. Hall grasps the truth, the meaning of Fuller's message: 1990s Los Angeles is itself a simulation.

Jane Fuller explains to Hall the truth: his world is one of thousands of virtual worlds, but it is the only one in which one of the occupants has developed a virtual world of its own. Jane Fuller lives in the real world outside the 1990s simulation, and only entered the virtual version to assume the role of her simulation, gain control of her father's company in that simulation, and shut down the simulated 1937 reality. The virtual Hall is modeled after David, Jane’s real-world husband. It was David who committed the murders via Hall’s body, being driven to jealousy when Jane fell in love with the Hall character.

Whitney enters the 1937 simulation, assuming the body of bartender Jerry Ashton, who has kidnapped Ferguson (Hall’s 1937 identity) and bound him in the trunk of his car. When Whitney is killed in a car crash inside the 1937 simulation, Ashton’s consciousness takes control of Whitney’s body in the 1990s simulation and takes Hall hostage. Hall convinces Ashton that he's not in the real world, but in a simulation. Hall takes Ashton to the place where he was born: a computer lab. David assumes control of Hall again to kill Ashton, and then attempts to rape and murder Jane. Jane is rescued by Det. McBain, who shoots and kills David. McBain at this point has realized the nature of his own reality, and jokingly asks Jane "So, is somebody going to unplug me now?" She answers "no", so McBain follows with the request "Look, do me a favor, when you get back to wherever it is you come from, just leave us the hell alone down here, okay?"

David's death as Hall in the 1990s simulation allows Hall’s artificial consciousness to take control of David’s body in the real world. He wakes in 2024, connected by a device to the VR system. He disconnects the system and finds Jane and her father, the real Hannon Fuller. Jane wants to tell Hall more about the simulation, but as she begins the film ends, the screen image turning black like a computer monitor being turned off.


UWAGA SPOILER!!! Treść może zdradzać fabułę książki:

Simulacron 3 is the story of a virtual city (total environment simulator) for marketing research, developed by a scientist to reduce the need for opinion polls. The computer-generated city simulation is so well-programmed, that, although the inhabitants have their own consciousness, they are unaware, except for one, that they are only electronic impulses in a computer.

The simulator’s lead scientist, Hannon Fuller, dies mysteriously, and a co-worker, Morton Lynch, vanishes. The protagonist, Douglas Hall, is with Lynch when he vanishes, and Hall subsequently struggles to suppress his inchoate madness. As time and events unwind, he progressively grasps that his own world is probably not “real” and might be only a computer-generated simulation.

Symbolically, the title term "Simulacron-3" refers to the just-built virtual reality simulator and ostensibly references a third attempt at "simulectronics" (the reality-simulating technology), however, the "3" also refers to the novel’s three levels of "reality," or three levels of computer simulation — if the final, "real" world is simulated. Moreover, "simulacron" is closely derivative of simulacrum, a superficial image representing a non-existent original.


In writing, the Frederik Pohl short story "The Tunnel under the World" (1955) deals with like philosophic themes and satirical criticism of marketing research, although in Pohl's story the described simulated reality is mechanical, an intricate scale-model whose inhabitants’ consciousnesses reside in a computer, rather than being solely electronic. The Philip K. Dick story Time Out of Joint (1959) presents a man who is unaware that he is living his life in a physically simulated town until changes in his (apparent) reality begin to manifest themselves.

In film, UWAGA!!!! Dark City (1998) UWAGA!!! pictured a population unknowingly living in a physical simulation of an American city under the control of a mysterious group of entities called the "Strangers", whose goal seemed to be the study of human motivation and psychology. The UWAGA!!!! Matrix (1999) UWAGA!!!! described a world whose population is unaware that the world containing their minds is a virtual reality simulacrum.

No to już wiemy, że przeczytał Pan jedną książkę w życiu i potrafi posługiwać się technologią kopiuj/wklej. Jaki ma to Pana zdaniem związek z tematem? Pozdrawiam serdecznie.

fan Matrixa?

Raczej nie, za co najmocniej przepraszam, bo nie może mnie Pan obrazić teraz. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.

Więzienie umysłów(1995)
Cyber Vengeance
Więzienie umysłów (1995)
opisy filmu(1)

Jest rok 2005. Cały system penitencjarny znajduje się w prywatnych rękach. Wielki potentat R.D. Crowley (Robert Davi) stworzył nowoczesne więzienie w rzeczywistości wirtualnej. Umysły pensjonariuszy uwięzione są w labiryntach przeróżnych gier, wykreowanych przez Crowleya. Aby rozgrywki były ciekawsze, Crowley zaprasza do "zabawy" sportowców, którzy żądni wysokiej nagrody, w wirtualnym świecie toczą zaciętą, często śmiertelną walkę z prawdziwymi przestępcami"odsiadującymi" wyrok. Interes Crowleya kwitnie aż do czasu, gdy Will Singleton (Greg Smith) podejmuje pracę strażnika więziennnego.

Zafascynowany możliwościami jakie daje wirtualna rzeczywistość, zaczyna rozwijać swoje umiejętności w sztuce walki. Powodowany sympatią do pewnego niewinnego skazańca, włamuje się do systemu, próbując zniszczyć wirtualną technologię.

Jego zamiary zostają jednak odkryte i teraz Will wpada w sam środek komputerowej gry, w której podróżując w czasie walczy z bezwzględnymi mordercami, wykorzystując wszystkie swoje zabójcze zdolności. Aby uniknąć pewnej śmierci, Will z pomocą więźniów musi zniszczyć wirtualne więzienie i uwolnić usidlone w nim umysły.
[opis dystrybutora dvd]

Jestem zafascynowany Szanownego Pana umiejętnościami kopiowania i wklejenia, w których to stał się Pan mistrzem. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.

może to jest jednak temat do rozmowy?

W istocie, proszę Szanownego Pana, z tego również powodu uczyniłem post wcześniejszy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.