Nirvana (film)

Nirvana is a 1997 Italian cyberpunk science fiction film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. The film stars Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, and Stefania Rocca. It was screened out of competition at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.

Jimi has been depressed since his wife Lisa Emmanuelle Seigner left him. He decides to make his search for her a part of his quest to delete Solo and the game. Along the way he recruits Lisas friend Joystick Sergio Rubini and tech wizard Naima Stefania Rocca to help him avoid suspicious representatives of Okasama Star, who employ increasingly forceful methods to stop him. By the end, Jimi hacks into one of the companys servers. This hack is in the world of virtual reality interpreted as encounters with persons from Jimis life the network defends itself by projecting virtual representations of people such as Jimis father and Lisa. It tries to keep the hackers mind in the loop of his own memories as it burns the hackers brain. Jimi manages to pass through the network defence mechanism by freeing his mind, forgetting about life before or after, about bodily feelings, and entering a state of pure concentration where one focuses only on the target in this case the server with the companys bank account. It is similar to meditation where one tries to concentrate on breathing people who are able to do this are referred to as angels they are invisible to the system, can go anywhere they want, and their possibilities are limitless in the film. In the end, Jimi feels enlightened and at inner peace with himself. He successfully deletes Solo, comes to terms with Lisas leaving him, and understands why things happened the way they did. He is in the state of Nirvana.The director, Gabriele Salvatores, shot the film mainly in the disused Alfa Romeo assembly plant in Portello, Milan. The whole place was converted in this scifi set where many ethnic sides of the city are shown. From the Indian to the Japanese to the Chinese, the film moves around the dynamic and the futuristic realms that the future created. ........

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