1995 · sci-fi · thriller · cyberpunk
Strange Days
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow2h 25m1995
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of murder, blackmail and intrigue.
Our read: Strange Days (1995) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · thriller · cyberpunk entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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- extreme
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