Strange Days

Strange Days (1995) is a sci-fi thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow you can watch online on iFILM. Los Angeles, the final days before the year 2000. Ex-cop Lenny Nero now deals in other people's memories.

A device called SQUID records experience straight off the cerebral cortex, so anyone can relive a stranger's hour from the inside: a love affair, a robbery, any forbidden rush. Lenny keeps one rule, no death clips. Then someone slips him a disc that plays a murder through the killer's own eyes, and the victim is a woman he knew. He digs into it alongside Mace, a driver and bodyguard who refuses to look away, and the trail leads toward something that could set the whole city off. Ralph Fiennes plays Lenny raw and rattled; Angela Bassett gives Mace a hard, loyal core, with Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore and Vincent D'Onofrio close behind.

James Cameron wrote the script with Jay Cocks, and the result is a rare cyberpunk noir about voyeurism, racial rage and millennial dread. Long unbroken takes put you behind the eyes of each character, which is exactly the point. Stream Strange Days (1995) online on iFILM.