OtherLife

(2017)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 492 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery

Year: 2017

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: Australia

Director: Бен Си. Лукас

Cast: Jessica De Gouw, T.J. Power, Thomas Cocquerel, Tiriel Mora, Liam Graham, Adriane Daff, Кларенс Джон Райан, Хоа Сюаньдэ, Шалом Брюн-Фрэнклин, Rebecca Caldwell

Plot

Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

The bright Dr. Ren Amari has developed a nanotechnological drug based on the research of her father, Professor Robert Amari, that she stole and capable to give memories to the user. She co-founded the Otherlife company with her friend Sam, with the intention to help her brother, Jared Amari, who is brain dead in coma after hitting a rock with his head while diving. Otherlife has a short schedule to prepare a demonstration and Sam is pressing Ren and the engineer Byron Finbar to fix the glitches in the software. Further, he wants to sell the confinement software to the correction department since the inmates will be able to spend one year sentence in his mind and spend only a few seconds in the real world, but Ren does not agree. When Ren demonstrates the skiing software to her boyfriend Danny, who works in Otherlife, he wants to repeat the experience and without authorization, he mistakenly uses Ren's experiment with her brother and dies. Sam proposes to the correctional department to use the isolation software in Ren instead of going to jail and convinces her to accept the deal. Ren reluctantly accepts and spends one desperate year alone in a virtual cell. When the period ends, there is no exit and the clock resets. Ren uses her knowledge to make a prison break and finds that she was in a real prison indeed. She also finds that Danny is alive, and she was betrayed by Sam and Byron. What will she do next?