幻想与现实界限模糊的未来世界,科技已经发展到远远超越时代的地步。电玩界女王爱丽拉·盖勒(詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh饰)不仅美丽性感,更是一位设计尖端游戏的设计师。她所设计的虚拟实境系统“X接触”可以直接干扰玩家的神经系统。在试玩大会上,各方玩家齐聚一堂,体验爱丽拉的最新杰作。然而一群狂热者企图刺杀爱丽拉,危急时刻,爱丽拉被守卫泰德·皮库(裘德·洛 Jude Law饰)救走。为了躲避追杀,两人双双进入“X接触”的异次元世界,然而一切正在变得越来越虚幻。
这部隐含大量社会议题的科幻惊悚影片《感官游戏》,由国际影坛最富争议性、最成功的导演之一大卫·柯南伯格执导。本片入围1999年第49届柏林国际电影节金熊奖,导演大卫·柯南伯格荣获该年度柏林国际电影节银熊奖-杰出艺术成就,并荣获2000年第26届美国电影电视土星奖-最佳科幻电影提名等多项大奖。
In his first film, Shane Atkinson goes back to a cinema that isn’t afraid of mixing genres, where noir and western coexist with the most corrosive of comedies and pulp detective stories. LaRoy, some sort of earthly fairy tale, centers around the life of Ray—he’s doing quite well with his small hardware store, and is married to Stacy-Lynn, the town’s beauty queen. But his dream present crumbles when his friend Skyp, a private investigator, reveals to him that his wife is having an affair. Devastated by the news, he decides to take his own life, but when he’s about to shoot himself, he is approached by a man who mistakes him for a hitman and offers him a considerable amount of cash for a job. A wildly intelligent narrative about pathetic characters that oscillates in the thin line between irony and empathy without the audience noticing.