VR - Virtual Reality
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| German title | VR - Virtual Reality | ||
| Original title | Tribulation | ||
| Country of production | Canada | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2000 | ||
| length | 95 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
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| Director | André van Heerden | ||
| script | Peter Lalonde Paul Lalonde |
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| production | Peter Lalonde Paul Lalonde |
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| music | Gary Koftinoff | ||
| camera | George Tirl | ||
| cut | Michael Doherty | ||
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VR - Virtual Reality , also known as Tribulation , is a Canadian science fiction thriller by André van Heerden from 2000. Gary Busey plays the leading role . The film addresses the turning away from the Christian faith. In the film this is compared to the Tower of Babel . The film did not come into German cinemas and was marketed on DVD from November 15, 2001 .
action
The sect leader Franco Macalousso strives for world domination. He preaches that people should join his organization, One Nation Earth . As a reward they expect a kingdom of heaven on earth, the previously impossible will be possible, the sick will be healed. Whoever joins him will acquire supernatural powers.
But he's secretly playing a bad game. Using telekinesis , he lets two of his followers, including Jason Quincy, lapse into fits of rage with religious madness for test purposes, so that they finally throw themselves out of the window. Since Jason jumped from the first floor, he did not suffer any major injuries. Nevertheless, he is then admitted to a clinic because he is considered suicidal after this incident. His sister Suzie and other relatives visit him in the hospital. Suzie's husband Tom - a cop by trade - overhears two FBI men talking about Jason. They express regret that Jason survived the jump out of the window.
Suzie and Tom's sister Eileen loosen Jason's chains and take him home in a taxi to protect him from absurd medication. They believe him that he was driven to his insane deed by occult forces. Tom manages to distract the two FBI employees who want to kill Jason and flees with his company car, which has been manipulated, so that he suffers a serious car accident.
After a few years in a coma, he finds himself in the recovery room of said hospital. His roommate reports reverently and fearfully that everyone who wakes up is put on some kind of glasses . After that, the test person is usually docile and subordinates to Macalousso's regime. As a distinguishing feature, these people wear three sixes on the back of their hands. Anyone who still does not give in under the influence of glasses will be executed. Tom escapes from the clinic again before such glasses can be put on him.
On arrival at home, there is no indication of the whereabouts of the other residents. Tom seeks help from his brother Calvin, who lives nearby and has become a loyal Macalousso fan. He even denies the existence of his biblical sister Eileen and asks Tom to put on his glasses. But Tom fights him off and flees into the nearby forest.
As a teenager, Eileen had carved the names of the three siblings into the bark of an imposing tree. Tom is overjoyed to see this lettering - for him proof that he is not crazy. Suddenly Jason jumps out of the tree top. He says Eileen has disappeared, but Suzie is fine. She now runs a mobile satellite TV broadcasting station together with some of her reporter colleagues. The videos sent from there call for a return to the Christian faith instead of following the new Messiah Macalousso. The angel, cast out by God, has already subjugated 95% of the world's population.
Tom returns to Calvin's house one more time and finds him dead in the armchair. From his hiding place in the closet he can overhear a conversation by Macalousso's manhunters. So he learns where his wife Suzie is currently. Her cottage on Rat Lake appears to be the base for Suzie's resistance group. In any case, Macalousso's security force receives transmission signals from there. Now he has to hurry to get there before the FBI agents. Tom and Jason drive to the cottage area on Rat Lake in Calvin's car . They deposit an active transmitter as a lure in one of the empty neighboring houses and mine it with explosives. When Macalousso's people get in there and shoot wildly, the explosive charge detonates, so that none of them survive. Now Suzie and her colleagues can safely broadcast an explosive video via satellite transmission that compromises Macalousso. His followers then turn away from him in droves.
background
The film was shot in the Canadian city of Brampton and a suburb of Toronto called Stouffville.
The English alternative title is Apocalypse III: Tribulation . On German television it mostly runs under the title Tribulation - VR Virtual Reality .
criticism
The lexicon of international films found the production to be a “simply conceived millennium fantasy” that told “its simple message with a self-confident Christian sense of mission” .
Web links
- VR - Virtual Reality in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- VR - Virtual Reality in the online film database
- VR - Virtual Reality at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations for VR - Virtual Reality. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ VR - Virtual Reality. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 8, 2014 .