13th Floor

Ok, so this movie is messed up in the biggest way possible. I still liked it. It gets you thinking about what is really out there, and you begin to question everything around you, in you. Are we made up of flesh and blood? This movie will test your beliefs and make you wonder.

Characters

Craig Bierko - Douglas Hall
Vincent D'Onofrio - Whitney
Armin Meieller-Stahl - Hannon Fuller
Gretchen Mol - Jane Fuller
Dennis Haysbert - Detective McBain

The basis of this movie is that a computer software company, dabbling in computer simulation stumbles upon something absolutely unheard of in their time. They have spent the last 6 years of their lives perfecting this machine that will bring them to whatever program they write. Be it a certain year with certain characters or whatever. They can create it and live within it for certain periods of time. They share identities with these characters they have created. Scary isn't it? Too bad that isn't the half of it.

Mr. Hannon Fuller is the president and founder of this computer software company and the head of the project that I mentioned above. He is the head brain on it, along with his right hand man, Douglas Hall and Whitney, their computer whiz. Together they make an absolutely awesome team, and I do have to admit right now that this movie is incredible.

The machine works like this. You lay down on this table. Similar to a doctor's examination table. Green lazer beams of some sort come down on you, they put you into character, download your memory over your characters and boom, your in your own little world. In this initial case though, Fuller has re-created his younger years. Back when he was a chap so to speak. The setting is downtown Los Angeles in 1937. What a change it is from the present day setting!!

Fuller uses this place as somewhere to sow his wild oats. He has a good time, but this time he is also using it for business. He goes in, writes a letter to his co-worker and employee Douglas Hall and leaves it with Whitney's character, Ashton. He's a bar tender at a rather fancy bar. Ashton ends up reading this letter, even though it was meant for Hall.

When Fuller gets back he goes to a bar, he calls Hall and lets him know where he is and what he's been up to. For some reason he has a feeling that he is being chased. He knows something that no one else does and it's Hall's responsibility to find out. While Fuller was on the phone he sees someone out the back door of the bar and hangs the phone up and walks out back.

You never see the guy's face but he pulls a knife out and stabs Fuller repeatedly. Leaves him for dead in some alley behind this scuzzy bar.

Detective McBain calls Hall and asks him to come down to the morgue. Fuller had no next of kin, and so Hall, his employee was put on his list of people to be notified if anything were to happen to him. Hall identifies him and returns home. He listens to 3 messages on his machine and goes to his bathroom. He finds a few things there that don't seem to fit what he remembers from the night prior.

The next day Hall meets a woman who claims to be Fuller's daughter, Jane. One problem. Fuller never mentioned any family while he was alive, so his employees were somewhat suspicious of this young lady who claimed to be his next of kin. Jane said that her father had planned to sell the company and she was going to try to take it over and shut it down, but a few days prior to his death Fuller had changed his will to favor his employees. He knew something was fishy by then.

Doesn't this seem odd. From what Hall can see around him, it looks like someone is attempting to frame him for Fuller's murder, and at the same time, this mysterious creature enters the plot...it thickens.

Hall finds out that Fuller left a message with someone in his program in 1937. Although the simulation had never been tested, Hall decides, with the help of Whitney that he has to go into the program and find out what had been going on.

From what I've said up until now I bet you are thinking that this movie is nothing more then a murder case involving some big-wig with lots of money. Some big scam that someone is trying to pull off, but it's not. It's the possibility that more then one of us could be living at the same time. I am not talking about cloning. Much scarier then that.

Imagine giving a computer character thoughts, feelings, a mind, soul and conscious. Then imagine them finding out that everything you have done for them is all fake. That they are some made up computer program, created by an certain individual to represent that certain individual in a different time, a different place.

Do me a favor, if you are not too sure what I'm talking about then go out and rent the movie. Or buy it. It's up to you. But please don't rate this movie thinking I'm some sort of nut when I'm not. You would understand all I've said here better if you had seen the movie. It's hard to put into words without giving it away. Kind of like Sixth Sense. :)

I hope you have enjoyed my writings here. I assure you they are real, unless of course I'm not....

Have a great night and hope you have all had a great 4th of July!!!
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