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THE SUBJECT OF THE REALITY OF MATTER IN FILMS

One of the significant developments that has taken place with the bringing of the subject about the reality of mat-
ter to the world's attention and its being told to the world through a variety of means has been the subject's being
taken up in various Hollywood movies.

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The subject of the movie The 13th Floor is this: The two lead characters in the film have created a virtual world by using computers. In
the virtual world, they are animating the year 1937, although in the real world they are living in the year 2000.

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The person connected to this computer program lies in a bed where information and details about his identity in the virtual world of
1937 are loaded into his brain. For example, a character called named Douglas Hall, who is a rich and successful CEO of a computer
company, gets the information of a bank treasurer called John Ferguson living in 1937 loaded to his brain.

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All of a sudden this person finds himself in the year 1937. All the cars, buildings, clothes belong to that year. What surprises him is that
both of the lives appear perfectly real. He can feel the wetness of the water and the wind and experience fear and excitement in both of
these lives.

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Later on, that person realizes that what he has been living through was no more than a computer program, and that the cars, buildings and
even his friends, which he thought to be real, were just a dream. In reality, he is living in a much later year than 2000 and he is watching
all of his life through a simulator. What the movie attempts to illustrate is that it is hard to differentiate life which is supposed to be real
from imagination.