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Reviews 59% 250+ Ratings Audience Score A scientist develops a revolutionary drug that alters the brain's sense of time, creating a virtual reality directly in the user's mind. The government ...
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- Ben C. Lucas
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Jun 19, 2017 · OtherLife review – virtual reality goes bad in ambitious Australian sci-fi thriller. Ben C Lucas’s innovative rumination on the pitfalls of technology has Hollywood appeal and features a darkly...
OtherLife has and interesting premise but no real story. The actors perform decently but the script isn't very good. The plot is underdeveloped and is mediocre at best.
Oct 15, 2017 · OtherLife: Directed by Ben C. Lucas. With Jessica De Gouw, Liam Graham, Fiona Press, Adriane Daff. After inventing a drug that induces time-compressed virtual realities, young Ren grapples with partner Sam over how to use their powerful creation.
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- 2017-10-15
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OtherLifeexpands the brain’s sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the 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 drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding.
Released:June 2017 Sydney Film Festival and USA internet release in October 2017 Screenplay:Gregory Widen, Kelley Eskridge, Ben C. Lucas Director:Ben C. Lucas Starring:Jessica De Gouw (The Rezort 2015), Liam Graham (Hounds of Love 2016), T. J. Power (Offspring TV Series), Byron Finbar (Wolf Creek TV Series), Thomas Cocquerel (Look out for him in up...
I watched OtherLife on Netflix. It's an Aussie sci-fi from director Ben C. Lucas. Lucas's first film, Wasted on the Young (2010), is also in the technology theme. OtherLifeis an easy watch and has many elements that lovers of futuristic plot devices will love. The layered storyline gives you plenty of things to think about. For example, it weaves i...
Performances are excellent for a low-budget production. Even though the cast is small, the selection process was on point, and the casting works like a well-oiled machine. Each character suits the role they were given. Jessica De Gouw's Ren is so beautiful, though; you will probably put the chips and chocolate down at some point while following the...
Finally, I need to point out what I think are flaws. The timeline and its structure is somewhat convoluted and could have been simplified to please a wider audience. Overall, this film was a pleasant surprise and great spin on a tried and tested narrative. I give OtherLife 3.5 cans of tuna in a box out of 5.
What Happened to Ren: The drug has the ability to make a minute seem like days. When Ren is placed in her year-long incarceration inside OtherLife, not much time has elapsed in reality. We know this because people close to her were told she simply moved to Italy. Her father didn't believe she was dead, but that Ren was just missing. When she breaks...
The end depicts Ren and her father at the hospital. In Ren's altered state, she gave her brother Jared the drug, and he woke up. Ren is seen pulling the plug to relieve him of his seizure and letting him die. When Ren sees Danny in OtherLife, he explains he had a seizure which put him in hospital. He tells her how he drowned over and over again. He...
OtherLife Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. David Nusair Reel Film Reviews. A low-budget cross between The Matrix and Total Recall... Full Review |...
Bringing Jared Back. Over time Ren tests the technology on herself and begins to perfect it. To the world, she’s working on a skiing holiday memory. Unknown to anyone else, she is working on a memory of drowning. Here’s the critical difference in the code between the skiing memory and the drowning one.
