The Thirteenth Floor: Difference between revisions

* [[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!}}

* [[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.

* [[Inside a Computer System]]: Much of the plot takes place in the 1937 world. {{spoiler|The "real world" is also a computer simulation. Eventually the hero gets uploaded to "the real real world" — unless that world is ''also'' a computer simulation. The film's ending leaves the interpretation open with the very last scene before the credits.}}

* [[I Want My Jetpack]]: {{spoiler|a man in the 1990s discovers he's really in a VR simulation of the 90s created in 2024. At the ending he gets to see what 2024 looks like, and the buildings are all bizarre "futuristic" things out of Buck Rogers.}}

* [[Love At First Sight]]: Played with. The hero and the girl meet and are immediately attracted to each other; after a brief dance they reflect on the fact that both seem to be already familiar with each other, and the girl says deja-vu is usually a sign of love at first sight - and sure enough, they fall madly in love. {{spoiler|It later turns out the girl has been watching him from the start of the simulation, and has been in love with him for a long time; he, instead, has been modeled on the girl's husband, and has had regular memory interference from him - hence the familiarity.}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: You enter a virtual world by possessing one of its inhabitants, and if killed in this state, ''your'' mind dies. And not only that, but {{spoiler|the victim's mind is transferred to your body instead}}.

** {{spoiler|It was more a case that simply entering the virtual world caused the swap, with the virtual person's mind entering your real world body even as your mind entered their virtual body. No one realized this, however, because the real body usually remained completely unconscious during the process. Virtual death merely broke the connection and jarred the real world body with the virtual mind inside it awake.}}

 

{{reflist}}