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OtherLife

2017 · 96 min

A tense, mind-bending thriller that traps you in its protagonist's claustrophobic virtual prison, blending corporate intrigue with visceral psychological dread.

Directed by
Ben C. Lucas
Genres
Science fiction, Crime, Mystery
Starring
Jessica De Gouw, T.J. Power, Thomas Cocquerel
Tagline
A whole year in a minute
Overview
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

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Directed by
Ben C. Lucas
Genres
Science fiction, Crime, Mystery
Starring
Jessica De Gouw, T.J. Power, Thomas Cocquerel
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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • identity
  • technology
  • power
  • grief
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • prison
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror3
Humour2
Realism6
Romance4
Tension8
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Cinematography
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