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Until the End of the World
Bis ans Ende der Welt
1991 · Film · 158 min
Directed by Wim Wenders
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.
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Also similar to the strange subplot in "Until the End of the World" [1] where a damaged Indian nuclear satellite threatens to fall to earth destroying civilization.
[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/
I don’t think this is the movie you’re referring to, but Until the End of the World has a similar device to record images from the brain. At first it is used to help a blind woman see. But later people start using it to record their dreams and then watch them—which becomes addictive.
The 1991 sci fi movie is called until the end of the world by wim wenders with William hurt who travels the world recording visions for his dying mom
> Maybe the extinction is the population of users that's entirely unused to graphical user interfaces. You don't need to take that group into consideration anymore, so, goodbye to usability experts.
> But the obvious result is that now, computer illiterate people are completely fucked
IMHO, the things that "fuck" computer illiterate people also annoy and decrease usability for computer literate people, it's just that the latter group can adapt to the damage.
Take those fucking horizontal slider switches, for instance. They're fucking everywhere now. It's fucking medium gray, does that mean on or off? Guess I have to toggle it and see what happens. Oh, the gray got lighter, so it must've been on?
Or, the app/website/whatever looked "dated" so they "refresh" it by changing some colors and moving all the the buttons and menus around. Thanks for invalidating my muscle memory, for no good reason.
IMHO, usability experts need to design all the UIs (keeping both novices and power users in mind), and give the graphic designers who are concerned about looks very little freedom (i.e. they can make suggestions, but need approval). If they want more freedom, they can design UIs for movie computers (if you want to see a good one, watch Until the End of the World).
> Whenever I go to an art or craft fair, I’m struck by the feeling that in a different world there would be a market for ‘artisanal software’ - with varying ratios of utility vs. aesthetics as the other arts and crafts have - and with independent software craftspeople selling interesting apps.
I recently watched the 5 hour cut of Until the End of the World, which is an early 90s movie set "20 Minutes into the Future" (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture).
Some scenes depict some interesting software that might be kind of like what you're talking about, though it's probably just a case of a "Viewer Friendly Interface" (https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ViewerFriendlyInterface).
Wenders filmed scenes in Japanese capsule pod hotels of the time ... it's relative to be sure but IMHO these are closer to the rentable pods depicted in the article than the scenes from the Jodorowsky movie.
The motivation here was admittedly to respond to one arthouse film drop with another.
I'm kind of old and while not in the film and TV business I've been tangential enough to work as an extra, tech runner, location support etc for various productions - notably in Berlin for Wings of Desire and in Australia (where I live) for some of the central Australian location work for Until the End of the World.
( Australian band in Wings of Desire:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPf6SWcENWo
)
> Or more closely the sleeping pod scenes in Tokyo in Wim Wenders Until the End of the World (1991)
Can you give a more detailed description? Was just a run-of-the-mill Japanese capsule hotel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel)? Those were already common in 1991 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsparky/4820691940), and would have been certainly exotically sci-fi to an early-90s American audience.
> Just the trailer - it's a 5 hour film and hard to find the specific scene on youtube
Wow. some time ago that film connected with me for some reason (why, I have no recollection), so I have a VHS copy (because it was unavailable in any other format). That cut is much shorter.
Or more closely the sleeping pod scenes in Tokyo in Wim Wenders Until the End of the World (1991)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfFWBWKwQT8
Just the trailer - it's a 5 hour film and hard to find the specific scene on youtube
In 1990, there was a train-wreck Wim Wenders movie that I loved and still love called "Until the End of the World". It was about a scientist (played by Max Von Sydow) who created a machine that could record someone's dreams or visual experiences directly from the brain and play them back even to a blind person. https://youtu.be/gilzgbdk300?t=442
Anyways, the images that were depicted in this work of fiction shot in 1990 about "the future" of 2000, had a very interesting look to them-- kind of distorted and dreamy like the images in the paper.
Are the images in the paper just a case of overfitting? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but it still makes me giddy remembering the Wim Wenders film.
There’s a movie directed by Wim Wenders called “Until the End of the World” with tech similar to this. It’s a Pay phones actually, where you’d flip the arm with the screen up attached up to make a call and down to end a call.
The movie is really an alternate universe where tech like this is ubiquitous. There’s something about the late 90s / early 00s vision for tech future I have an increasingly difficult time grasping today.
Until The End Of The World (from memory) a film [1991-ish] by Wim Wenders.
Film director Wim Wenders's "Until the end of the world" from 1991 shows a very interesting future with "video fax" and "video phones". And instead of CD's it shows credit-card-form audio storage. The way this film depicts how video phones might work was actually convincing. Still, right now when someone tries to FaceTime me, I decline...
It was also a plot arc of the underrated great movie "Until the End of the World".
RIP Max Von Sydow, a great artist.
He's forever in the canon as the protagonist in The Seventh Seal, of course.
Every film buff will have something in particular that stands out in their memory about Max Von Sydow. For me, that would be the as the mad scientist, Dr Farber, in "Until the End of the World"-- a sprawling train-wreck of a film that I will always remember fondly, I don't care what the pro-critics think!
Max played a critical role in what I think is an under-rated science fiction movie called “Until the End of the World.” He comes into the story pretty late, and is crucial to a tricky transition from a “road” movie to something far more dramatic.
That seemed to be a popular role for him later in life—a sort of super character actor who could come in and punch up the gravitas of any scene with just a few lines. I think that says a lot about his abilities as an actor.
There’s a great movie called Until The End Of The World that centers on this kind of technology. Once the scientists get it to work, they realize that they can record and play back their dreams, and they become addicted to watching them.
In response to your parent, there's also the movie by Wim Wenders "Until the end of the world"
Where IIRC a scientist creates a device that can record dreams and his wife becomes totally addicted to the experience and just can't stop playing and re-playing her dreams.
I think it's in Until the end of the world but cannot swear it ; )
Good movie anyway...
And then there's the movie which is a reflection on immersive videogame as the main plot: David Cronenberg's Existenz. Existenz is considered a flop by many, but an underrated movie by quite some people too.