Strange Days

“The issue’s not whether you’re paranoid, Lenny, I mean look at this shit, the issue is whether you’re paranoid enough.”

In the dystopian 1999, Los Angeles is racial war zone with the army and LSPD and SWAT officers fighting Afro-American people. Ralph Fiennes plays the former cop Lenny Nero, who deals in hard- and software of illegal recordings that gives the memories and sensations of the recorder to the user. Nero’s best friends are private detective Max Peltier and limousine driver Lornette ‘Mace’ Mason. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates with the help of his friends and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Two days before the turn of the century, virtual images of the police murder of black activist and musician Jeriko Ono are leaked to the masses and a national revolution breaks out. Involved in the murder case and suspected of having leaked the tapes, Lenny’s life is on the line.

Trigger warning: sexual violence, violence, gore