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Welt am Draht / World on a Wire, Fassbinder (1973)
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Welt am Draht / World on a Wire, Fassbinder (1973)

Looking for a way out of the Matrix, Tom & Gav stop to admire the beauty of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 TV 2 Part mini-series...

  • Let’s start with the book; Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye. THIS is a publisher’s blurb, but an informative publisher’s blurb

…and for the German speakers, here’s an introduction to the film…

The film’s opening sequence, with a reference to an eye in a triangle, is widely discussed.

…whereas Tom is fascinated by the appearance of a Goldfish during this drowning sequence

Welt am Draht was remade in 1999 as The 13th Floor, which lost out at the Oscars, ironically enough, to the Matrix

…and was also put on stage by the Schauspielhaus Dortmund…-

…but this page would not be complete without a series of dance sequences from Raumpatrouille Orion…

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