Strange Days (film)

Strange Days is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks, and starring Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Vincent DOnofrio, and Michael Wincott. It was produced by Cameron and StevenCharles Jaffe.

In the last two days of 1999, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. As a group of criminals rob a Chinese restaurant, the event is recorded by a robber wearing a SQUID, or Superconducting Quantum Interference Device, an illegal electronic device which records events directly from the wearers cerebral cortex, and when played back through a MiniDisclike device called a deck, allow a user to experience the recorders memories and physical sensations. Lenny Nero is a former LAPD officer turned black marketeer who deals in bootleg SQUID recordings. His main supplier, Tick Richard Edson, tries to sell the robbery clip to him. Lenny eventually agrees to buy it at a reduced price, having to cut out the last part where the rig records the robbers death by falling clips that record the wearers death are known as blackjack snuff clips, because the experience is described as jacking into the big black by Tick.Elsewhere, a prostitute named Iris is being chased by two police officers as she flees to the subway. As the train departs, one of the officers shatters a window and grabs Iris her wig is pulled off, revealing a SQUID recorder headset. Lenny pines for his exgirlfriend Faith, while relying on his two best friends, bodyguard and combat specialist Lornette Mace Mason and private investigator Max Peltier, for emotional support. Mace has unrequited feelings for Lenny from the past, from when he was still a cop and stepped in as a dependable father figure for her son after her boyfriend was arrested on drug charges she disapproves of his SQUIDdealing business. While the three are drinking together at a bar, Iris arrives, drops a disc through the sunroof of Lennys car and flees when she sees police nearby. Lennys car is towed away before Lenny can find the disc. ........

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