Catherine Bigelow Thriller for Nuclear War "House of Dynamite" Open at cinema this week. Since her military drama in Iraq in 2008 and Darling Oscar "The Hurt Locker", Bigelow has stick to similar films: see "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Detroit". The first half of her career, however, shows that she is even more capable.

The 20th-century Bigelow resume includes film films such as "Close Dark", a neo-West starring Vampires, Surfer and Bank Bank Bank Bank, and the "Strange Days" Cyberpank-Raj. The second unfortunately went down to the box office (earning only $ 17 million on a $ 42 million budget) and has since laid off and out of wide availability. It was briefly added to the HBO Max library in 2023, but has since disappeared in the streaming ether. 30 years on, "Strange Days" has enjoyed the cult of the following, and it's more than worth using your local stores to find a DVD -copy of it.

Released in 1995, but set up in December 1999, "Strange Days" is a film made to turn the millennium. The film follows the former LAPD officer turned into dealer Lenny Nero (Ralph Fien), but he did not trade in ordinary narcotics. Lenny's product is squid (superconductor of quantum mixing device), devices that record memories and allow users to experience lush; You don't just see the memories, squid get into your brain and allow you Experience It first hand. It is obvious to live living in the past, appropriate for a 20th -century film that accepts the future.

Lenny is dipped in its own supply; The days spends his memories of his ex-girlfriend, the rock-Starvaza Vera Justinatin (Ietuliet Lewis), who left him on a musical tycoon. Lenny is so hung in the past that his friend, the limousine driver, Mace (Angela Bassett), does not notice him as he does for faith. Lenny gets his chance to connect, and much more than he asked, when a friend of faith Iris (Brigitte Baco) was killed.

"Strange Days" was co-written by Bigelow's ex-husband, Jamesesheims Cameron, Based on the idea he had first in 1985. The science science has a lot of Cameron's blossoms; Mace is Badas' wife in the same direction as Sarah Connor and Ellen Ripley, and like most Cameron's stories, there is a great romance in the center of this.

Ralph Fienne has a wide -ranging range, and in the years of "strange days", he has proven to be difficult to descend. He can be frightening (Voldemort in Harry Potter), funny (M. Gustwave at the Grand Budapest Hotel), both at the same time (head of crimes of crime Harry in "In Bruges"). However, last year, he You also gave one of the biggest performances in 2025 As an eccentric, but a Kinduubesis doctor in "28 years later". Lenny is the type of character, Fienne does not play frequent and bad screw-but it is still natural.

Like faith, Ietuliet Lewis is playing rock -starvar so well that it has become one in real life. It covers one of the biggest 90s Alt Girls Melodies, "Get Rid of Me" by PJ Harvey. It is a song to refuse to miss your Lubotnik, the one who is creeping from a quiet plea to screaming, and a convenient music choice for a movie where our hero is tied to memories of better days.

The key to understanding "strange days" deeper than his cool and harsh vibration is that it is a movie story in Amberpank, and La "Blade Runner". A former suit drawn in a conspiracy to twist the killings involving his former lubricity? Humphrey Bogart could easily fit into those wide strokes.

However, about his classic storytelling in Hollywood, "Strange Days" also boasted as a conscientious prognosis of the millennium. The Internet consumes modern life and all depends on us on voyeurism, just like people watching squid footage in "Strange Days". What a cruel irony that the internet currently does not offer a legal way to see this movie.