This is a cracking film - fast paced and thought provoking. It's treading a similar path to the 1983 film Brainstorm, but here the technology is a means to move the story along rather than the focus of the film.
It's the coming of the new millennium and society is teetering on the brink of social upheaval. The death of an influential rapper and a serial killer on the loose threaten to tip the balance into anarchy. This is where Lenny (Ralph Fiennes) walks his line, peddling the detritus of other peoples lives whilst seeming to rise above it all. He deals in artificial dreams via digital recordings of real life, packaged up and edited in the form of "clips" but when the serial killer begins targeting Lenny he realises that there is more at stake than just his life and sanity.
This is an intelligent and ballsy film that knows how to keep its finger on the pulse, and the acting by Fiennes and Angela Bassett is superb. Lenny is a pathetic loser, a bottom feeder making a living out of peddling other peoples discarded experiences, but Fiennes is able to bring out the humanity in him and by the end of the film we see a strong and clearly defined character that could even be quantified as a hero.
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