“This tape is a lightning bolt from god.”
...Brainstorm (1983) and Strange Days (1995)
The opening credits of Brainstorm (1983) show a blank image distorted by static, as if from a TV set, that quickly turns into an abstract mindspace probed by science. It relates the visual perception of humans to dominant modes of media like film and television. The movie tells the story of a machine created to record our memories in order t…
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