Hallmark Films of 1999

It is amazing the movies that came out in 1999, on the eve of the millennium. For they were so appropriate to occasion. One of the themes of that year was misinterpreted reality. Along with Fight Club, where a man mistakes his own identity, that year saw some of the best virtual reality films of all time.



Certainly the best virtual reality movie ever made, The Matrix, was released in 1999.



So was Fight Club. In Fight Club, 'The Narrator' doesn't realize that he himself is in fact the infamous cult leader Tyler Durden. Not only was Fight Club brilliant, it predicted the collapse of the World Trade Center two years later, as well as the MGTOW movement.

Incredible films of 1999 in which the main character is deceived about what is real:

1. Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton. (A man splits his identity in two to avoid seeing who he is)
2. The Matrix, directed by the Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves.
3. The Thirteenth Floor, American/German film loosely based upon Simulacron-3 (1964). (A man finds out he is in a computer simulated world)
4. eXistenZ, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe. (Another virtual reality film)
5. The Sixth Sense, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis. (A man does not realize he is a ghost.)

Similarly themed twisted reality films peppered the previous year 1998 as well.

1. The Truman Show 1998 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir. (A man lives in a simulated world for the entertainment of others)
2. Dark City (1998 film), an American-Australian science fiction film by Alex Proyas. (A city of people live in a simulated reality created by Aliens)
3. Pi (film), a 1998 film directed by Darren Aronofsky. (The Pythagorean notion that everything is reducible to number is explored by a man losing his mind from the strain to understand it)

And then in 2001, a movie in which a man does not know if he is dreaming. Waking Life by Richard Linklater.