—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 20, 1995
Technological tripping
makes 'Strange Days'
By TODD RITTER
Collegian Ms Writer
We live in a virtual world
TV, movies, the World Wide
Web. Everywhere we turn there is
a new form of technology begging
for our attention, pining away for a
piece of our consciousness.
The new film Strange Days takes
this concept to a higher, more
frightening level. It serves up the
idea of virtual reality as an easy,
dangerously addictive high.
It's called wire-tripping and it
allows someone to feel the record
ed human experiences of someone
else. Or as Lenny Nero, the main
character, describes it, "You're
there. You're doing it. Feeling it.
Straight from the cerebral cortex."
If you want to commit a crime,
just wire-trip. If you want to have
forbidden sex, just wire-trip. Any
thing and everything is available,
straight on delivery, straight to
your brain.
It's some pretty heavy stuff, as
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demonstrated in the very first
scene, a kinetic single take filmed
from the viewpoint of an armed
robber. It takes the audience out of
a car, into a restaurant, up three
flights of stairs and onto a roof.
It's a breathless, virtuoso piece
of filmmaking. When the scene is
over, we want more. Before we
even know what wire-tripping is,
we understand its seductiveness.
Strange Days is a study in the art
of virtual seduction. The film sucks
us in from the very beginning,
leaving us wanting more and, while
not exactly giving it to us, we leave
happy anyway.
It begins during the last two days
of 1999. Iris, a prostitute who sells
her experiences to Nero for wire
tripping purposes, is in big trouble.
In her possession is an incriminat
ing disc that has serious implica
tions. When Iris is brutally mur
dered, Nero (Ralph Fiennes) and
his friend Mace, played with
authority by Angela Bassett, try to
find the disc and solve the murder.
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Swirling in the background are
subplots involving the murder of a
controversial rapper, Nero's obses
sion with Faith, his old girlfriend,
police corruption and the coming
of the next millennium.
Bent on self-destruction, Nero is
as burnt-out as Los Angeles itself.
And Fiennes, who continues to
impress with every role, invests
the part with such sleazy charm
that you can't help but like him.
Strange Days has so much going
for it a cool concept, two impres
sive leads, virtual reality galore
that it's easy to forgive its flaws.
The first hour drags a little as the
intricate plot is set up, yet the end
of the film, when all the plots con
verge at the stroke of midnight, is
so satisfying that all its missteps
along the way are soon forgotten.
So as technology continues to
surround us and time hurtles us
ever closer to the millennium, all
Strange Days has to say is, "Wel
come to the 21st century."
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Kravitz's 'Circus' borrows
from past musical sideshows
Today's vocabulary word is
irony. From Webster's New World
Dictionary: "irony n., an event or
result that is the opposite of what
is expected."
I'm not really sure if Lenny
Kravitz is familiar with this word
or not. I'm guessing no, based on
the first single off his new album,
Circus. The song in question is
"Rock And Roll Is Dead," Lenny's
little rant against no-talent musical
hacks, with lyrics like, "You're liv
ing for an image." What's next,
Madonna criticizing Marilyn Mon
roe for being sexually suggestive?
If rock 'n' roll really is dead, then
Kravitz is indulging in a little bit of
necrophilia.
Apparently Kravitz thinks musi
cal inventiveness ended sometime
in the '7os, because nothing on this
album even approaches a fresh or
new sound. He does a nice Led Zep
pelin imitation on "Beyond The 7th
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drix's voice. And "Magdalene"
blends so many different influ
ences it would be pointless• to list
them all here.
About the only thing of any inter
est on this entire album is Kravitz's
dabbling in born-again Christian
lyrics, on songs like "God Is Love,"
"In My Life Today" and "The Res
urrection."
Actually, I'm not really sure
what he was trying to accomplish
with this triad of songs "God Is
Love" is more likely to put a listen
er to sleep than to convince anyone
to convert. Maybe he figures he's
combating insomnia in the name of
the Lord.
Circus would be a good album if
the 1970 s had never happened. But
unfortunately for Kravitz, they did,
and anyone even considering buy
ing this album would do much bet
ter to just turn on a classic-rock
station. You'll hear the exact same
music, done better, and it won't
cost you a thing.
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