The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
One of two major motion pictures released in 1999 about a futuristic simulation whose inhabitants believe they're in the real world. The other was The Matrix (1999) released two months earlier.
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) conspiracy thriller TV movie that is more interesting now as an artifact than entertainment. Glenn Ford plays a professor who is a member of the titular secret society which enriches its membership but binds them to secrecy and to whatever they are called upon to do by the brotherhood, no questions asked. Ford finally receives his marching orders, which are to blackmail his good friend, a Soviet defector, into refusing a new career position by threatening to reveal the names of his network of defection assistants to the KGB.
One of two major motion pictures released in 1999 about a futuristic simulation whose inhabitants believe they're in the real world. The other was The Matrix (1999) released two months earlier.
The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970) conspiracy thriller TV movie that is more interesting now as an artifact than entertainment. Glenn Ford plays a professor who is a member of the titular secret society which enriches its membership but binds them to secrecy and to whatever they are called upon to do by the brotherhood, no questions asked. Ford finally receives his marching orders, which are to blackmail his good friend, a Soviet defector, into refusing a new career position by threatening to reveal the names of his network of defection assistants to the KGB.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell