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For years, Douglas Hall has been working with his friend and mentor, Hannon Fuller, to create a simulated world. Not merely a computer game, their simulation is a [[Small Secluded World]] where the inhabitants don't know that they are simulated. They believe that their world is the physically real world of 1937, not just a simulation in a cluster of supercomputers at The Thirteenth Floor of some future skyscraper.
For years, Douglas Hall has been working with his friend and mentor, Hannon Fuller, to create a simulated world. Not merely a computer game, their simulation is a [[Small Secluded World]] where the inhabitants don't know that they are simulated. They believe that their world is the physically real world of 1937, not just a simulation in a cluster of supercomputers at The Thirteenth Floor of some future skyscraper.


Now someone or something has murdered Fuller, and seem to be trying to pin the blame on Hall. The answer to the mystery is somewhere in the world they created together... But their world is not safe anymore. Simulated humans are awakening to the terrible truth of their existence, wanting revenge on their deceitful creators.
Now someone or something has murdered Fuller, and seem to be trying to pin the blame on Hall. The answer to the mystery is somewhere in the world they created together... But their world is not safe anymore. Simulated humans are awakening to the terrible truth of their existence, wanting revenge on their deceitful creators.
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* [[Cyberspace]]: Kinda.
* [[Cyberspace]]: Kinda.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: A three-way contest - squarely lost in the general public fame - with ''[[The Matrix]]'' and ''[[eXistenZ]]''.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: A three-way contest - squarely lost in the general public fame - with ''[[The Matrix]]'' and ''[[eXistenZ]]''.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Happens when a bartender from the 1937 simulation finds a letter that leads him to suspect his world is not real. He goes homicidal when he encounters one of the creators of the simulation.
* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: Happens when a bartender from the 1937 simulation finds a letter that leads him to suspect his world is not real. He goes homicidal when he encounters one of the creators of the simulation.
** {{spoiler|Douglas}} has a minor breakdown when he discovers "the End of the World".
** {{spoiler|Douglas}} has a minor breakdown when he discovers "the End of the World".
* [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]: {{spoiler|Douglas Hall}} upon learning the truth.
* [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]: {{spoiler|Douglas Hall}} upon learning the truth.
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Douglas}}''': Yeah, there's just one little flaw in your thesis. ''None of this is real!'' You pull the plug... I disappear! And nothing I ever ''say'', nothing I ever ''do'', will ever matter!}}
{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Douglas}}''': Yeah, there's just one little flaw in your thesis. ''None of this is real!'' You pull the plug... I disappear! And nothing I ever ''say'', nothing I ever ''do'', will ever matter!}}
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Cinderella Man|Max Baer]] is Douglas Hall, [[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Detective Goren]] is Hall's nerdy coworker/the crooked simulation bartender, and [[24|President David Palmer]] is Detective McBain.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Cinderella Man|Max Baer]] is Douglas Hall, [[Law and Order: Criminal Intent|Detective Goren]] is Hall's nerdy coworker/the crooked simulation bartender, and [[24|President David Palmer]] is Detective McBain.
* [[Hyde Plays Jekyll]]
* [[Hyde Plays Jekyll]]
* [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance]]: A certain character in the 1937 world starts out like this, but is brutally awakened to the true nature of reality.
* [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance]]: A certain character in the 1937 world starts out like this, but is brutally awakened to the true nature of reality.
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* [[Prop Recycling]]: The crew reused the set for Deckard's apartment from ''[[Blade Runner]]'' for Hall's apartment. The furniture is different, but the patterned wall tiles are unmistakable.
* [[Prop Recycling]]: The crew reused the set for Deckard's apartment from ''[[Blade Runner]]'' for Hall's apartment. The furniture is different, but the patterned wall tiles are unmistakable.
* [[Recursive Reality]]: Worlds within worlds.
* [[Recursive Reality]]: Worlds within worlds.
* [[Schrodinger's Butterfly]]: What is real and what is the simulation?
* [[Schrödinger's Butterfly]]: What is real and what is the simulation?
* [[The Future Is Noir]]: As is the present, and the past. It's safe to say that this is one of the noir-iest movies ever made.
* [[The Future Is Noir]]: As is the present, and the past. It's safe to say that this is one of the noir-iest movies ever made.
* [[World Limited to the Plot]]: Deconstructed, as this plot is actually about writing reality itself.
* [[World Limited to the Plot]]: Deconstructed, as this plot is actually about writing reality itself.
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