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Reality Crisis
Often presaged by a vague feeling of dissonance, this revelation tends to have traumatic implications for the characters involved, and they will have a difficult time coming to grips with the vast implications of their discovery.
A rather wide range of films might fall into this category. Although some of them are intended to be little more than pure and simple entertainment, the particular nature of this material often constitutes a stimulating opportunity for engaging in ontological/metaphysical reflections on the world around us, and more generally, on the objectivity of reality itself.
Examples
- Cinema/Television: "World on a Wire" (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973), "In the Mouth of Madness" (John Carpenter, 1994), "eXistenZ" (David Cronenberg, 1999).
- Literature (fiction): "Simulacron-3" (Daniel F. Galouye, 1964), "A Maze of Death" (Philip K. Dick, 1970), "Permutation City" (Greg Egan, 1994).
- Videogames: "Enter the Matrix" (2003), "The Stanley Parable" (2013), "The Evil Within" (2014).
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| Title | Directors | Year | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigarette Burns | John Carpenter | 2005 | 6 |
| In the Mouth of Madness | John Carpenter | 1994 | 9 |
| The Matrix | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | 1999 | 6.5 |