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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 two-part made-for-television serial directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. While technically a miniseries, World on a Wire is also viewed by some as one long, 204-minute film, thanks in part to its 2012 two-disc release by The Criterion Collection. The film stars several of Fassbinder's usual collaborators, such as Klaus Löwitsch, Wolfgang Schenck, Kurt Raab, Ulli Lommel, Karl Scheydt, Ingrid Caven, and Margit Carstensen, while also featuring actors who had never previously worked with Fassbinder, such as Mascha Rabben, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Ivan Desny, Adrian Hoven, and Günter Lamprecht. The film is based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye, which was also adapted into the 1999 film The Thirteenth Floor.Dr. Fred Stiller (Löwitsch) is an employee at IKZ (Institut für Kybernetik und Zukunftsforschung, or in English, Cybernetics and Future Science), a company known for creating, housing, and operating Simulacron-1, a cyberspace world housing about 10,000 "identity units" capable of thinking, feeling, and living normal everyday lives within IKZ's computer network, totally oblivious to their existence as a collection of circuits. One day, Stiller is promoted to Technical Director at IKZ following the mysterious death of the previous Technical Director, Professor Vollmer (Hoven), who had recently uncovered a dark secret related to Simulacron-1. Mystery ensues as Stiller is forced to meet the demands of IKZ CEO Herbert Siskins (Vosgerau) while juggling his own romantic pursuits with the ever-deepening mystery surrounding IKZ's intentions and the implications of successfully creating a simulation of reality.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })World on a Wire is frequently compared and contrasted with The Wachowskis' 1999 hit film The Matrix, which tackles many of the same themes, albeit in a much faster-paced, action-packed way. In typical Fassbinder fashion, World on a Wire is a very slowly-paced film that centers more on the philosophical questions that arise in a world where simulating reality is possible. Ironically though, it's definitely among Fassbinder's more action-filled films, not that that's saying much. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Eddie Constantine makes a very brief appearance as a man who's allergic to cigarettes, and is credited as "Man in Rolls Royce". This is almost definitely a reference to his appearance in Jean-Luc Godard 's film Alphaville, which deals with many of the same themes as this film. | |
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Artificial Human | |
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Artificial Human: The human constructs that populate Simulacron-1 are called "identity units", but are essentially artificial people programmed by the staff at IKZ. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: One of the identity units, Christopher Nobody, realizes that he's trapped in a simulation and is Driven to Suicide shortly thereafter. Not only is Fred Stiller made aware of his own existence as an identity unit halfway through the series, but it turns out that he was specifically designed to look exactly like the creator of his simulated world. That creator's name? Fred Stiller. | |
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Recursive Reality | |
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Recursive Reality: The central thesis of the film. Simulacron-1 is a simulation within a simulation, and the "real world" that's revealed to be another, "higher" simulation at the end of the first half begs the question of where the layers of simulation stop, and whether not there is any such thing as an objective reality in a world where simulation is possible. It could be Fred Stillers all the way down. | |
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Freaky Electronic Music: Most of the film's score consists of this. Expect an eerie electronic musical cue whenever something related to the film's mysteries gets revealed. | |
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Constructed World | |
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Constructed World: Simulacron-1, which is populated with just a small town's worth of Artificial Humans. Oh, and "real life". And potentially everything "higher" than that, as well. | |
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Become a Real Boy | |
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Become a Real Boy: One of the primary concerns of IKZ is that the identity units will begin to develop this and want to leave Simulacron-1. And with good reason, considering that Einstein eventually does so successfully, and begs "I want to be a human being" among other things when caught. This could also be considered a subversion, since the film's overall message calls into question what "real" humanity even is. | |
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Work Hard, Play Hard | |
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Work Hard, Play Hard: Stiller somehow still finds time to go to clubs and sleep around while investigating the disappearance of Lause and working as a Technical Director of a world housing 10,000 people. | |
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Workaholic | |
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Workaholic: Maya suffers an absence from work at IKZ after working herself to exhaustion, conveniently allowing Siskins to replace her with Gloria. Stiller is also a good example of this. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Delivered right at the end of the first half of the series. | |
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory | |
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Shortly after Günther Lause suddenly disappears mid-conversation, Stiller becomes the only person who remembers that Lause ever existed, much to his own confusion and frustration. In the second half of the series, a newspaper bearing a pre-ripple headline about Lause's disappearance is found by the article's author, proving Stiller right about the nature of "reality". | |
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Coolest Club Ever | |
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Coolest Club Ever: In one scene, Stiller takes Gloria to a red-lit two-story strip club where he rambles to her about recent developments. This may also double as a rare bisexual example of Where Everybody Knows Your Flame, considering that the expected crowd of scantily clad women are accompanied by bare-chested bodybuilders dancing in the pit. | |
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Predatory Business | |
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Predatory Business: IKZ definitely counts as one, and is poised to become a Mega-Corp thanks to its shady connections to both the government and other big companies like United Steel, who intend to use the simulation to further their own business interests. | |
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Trapped in a Sinking Car | |
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Trapped in a Sinking Car: This is how Hahn dies after he learns too much about the existence of the "real world" as yet another layer of simulation. | |
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Standard Office Setting | |
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Standard Office Setting: Most of the film takes place within IKZ's office building, albeit the offices we see are large, often sterile, and extremely well-furnished. | |
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He Knows Too Much | |
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He Knows Too Much: When an unseen identity unit named "Christopher Nobody" attempts suicide within Simulacron-1 after going mad from the revelation of living in a simulated world, Stiller gives the green light to delete Nobody in order to keep the simulation intact. This is also the reason behind Professor Vollmer's mysterious death, Günther Lause's sudden disappearance, Hahn's car "accident", and Stiller's worsening luck. All four become aware that they themselves are living in a simulation, and are "removed" one by one as a result. | |
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Hired for Their Looks | |
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Hired for Their Looks: Strongly implied to be the reason Siskins replaces Maya with Gloria as Stiller's secretary, in order to have an extra pair of eyes on his new Technical Director. It makes even more sense when she admits that she's Sleeping with the Boss. | |
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Born as an Adult | |
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Born as an Adult: Most, if not all of the adult identity units in Simulacron-1 were programmed into the simulation as adults, skipping childhood entirely. Not that they would know, thanks to the False Memories that come with their programming. | |
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This is also revealed by Eva to be the cause of Stiller's recurring headaches, occurring whenever her reality's Stiller attempts to take over his mind. He's successfully able to compel the simulated Stiller to walk straight into a firing squad in the end. | |
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Go Mad from the Revelation | |
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When an unseen identity unit named "Christopher Nobody" attempts suicide within Simulacron-1 after going mad from the revelation of living in a simulated world, Stiller gives the green light to delete Nobody in order to keep the simulation intact. | |
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill | |
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There Is No Kill like Overkill: Stiller's simulated body is filled with lead at the film's end. Fortunately for Stiller, Eva swapped his consciousness with the "original" Stiller right before this occurred. | |
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Corporate Conspiracy | |
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Corporate Conspiracy: A major narrative thread involves IKZ's relationship to United Steel, a wannabe Mega-Corp that wants to use Simulacron-1 to model market demand for raw materials up to the year 2000. | |
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Sleeping with the Boss | |
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Sleeping with the Boss: Stiller takes Gloria out on several dates, and eventually the two sleep together. This occurs immediately after Gloria admits to being in a relationship with Siskins, so she's also sleeping with Stiller's boss. | |
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Ret-Gone | |
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Ret-Gone: At the beginning of the series, Stiller converses with his colleague Günther Lause regarding Professor Vollmer's disturbing discovery immediately prior to the latter's sudden, mysterious death. Stiller turns away from Lause for a brief moment, and when he looks back at the chair where Lause was sitting, it's totally empty. Shortly thereafter, nobody but Stiller has any recollection of there ever being a Günther Lause at IKZ. Most of the first half of the series concerns Stiller's attempts to prove to anyone else that Lause ever existed. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: A Technical Director of a world Inside a Computer System named Fred Stiller is responsible for nearly every bad thing that happens. He's just not the Fred Stiller who we spend most of the film with. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: The first half of the series ends with one of Stiller's colleagues, Fritz Walfang, being tricked off-screen into switching minds with the identity unit Einstein upon visiting the simulation. This ends up being the same way that Eva saves Stiller by quickly swapping his mind with the mind of her reality's Stiller. This results in the "original" Stiller being killed by the cops in front of the IKZ building while the Stiller that serves as our protagonist is able to join the "real" Eva in the "real" world. At one point in the second half of the series, Stiller programs a perfect physical copy of Siskins into Simulacron-1 in order to suggest that someone from a "higher" plane of existence could to the same to their world. Near the end of the series, Eva reveals to Stiller that he happens to be an exact physical replica of her reality's Fred Stiller. | |
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Inside a Computer System | |
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One of the identity units, Christopher Nobody, realizes that he's trapped in a simulation and is Driven to Suicide shortly thereafter. | |
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Cosmic Plaything | |
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Cosmic Plaything: The identity units of Simulacron-1 are unknowingly these, considering that their lives can be changed or totally erased in an instant by IKZ. [Not that anyone in "reality" is safe either, as evidenced early on by the unexplained disappearance of Günther Lause. Stiller gets a pretty bad case of this as he becomes increasingly aware of his status as an Artificial Person, as his luck gets worse and more unexplainable things begin to happen to him. In an odd twist on the trope, the seemingly-cosmic force behind his misfortunes is none other than his "original" self, who is Technical Director of the simulation we're initially lead to believe is reality. | |
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Video Phone | |
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Video Phone: All the executives at IKZ possess one of these at their desk. Unlike many examples of the trope, the screens here are tiny, being a little smaller than the screen size of most modern smartphones. | |
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Sexy Secretary | |
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Sexy Secretary: Maya, Stiller's first secretary, is played by the very attractive Margit Carstensen. Then she's replaced by Gloria (Barbara Valentin). | |
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Grand Theft Me | |
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Grand Theft Me: This is one of the ways that people in the real world can interact with Simulacron-1, via Brain Uploading their mind into one of the simulation's identity units. This is also revealed by Eva to be the cause of Stiller's recurring headaches, occurring whenever her reality's Stiller attempts to take over his mind. He's successfully able to compel the simulated Stiller to walk straight into a firing squad in the end. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: While Siskins is affable in his interactions with his employees and business partners, he's also responsible for the upkeep of thousands of digital human lives solely for the purpose of advancing the business interests of other companies and the government. | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene: We're treated to several scenes of Stiller in various states of undress throughout the series. A particularly lengthy scene involves a shirtless Fred conversing with an IKZ bodyguard (played by El Hedi ben Salem) about the nature of their reality as a simulation while seated at Fred's apartment balcony while he's on company-mandated house arrest. | |
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Clueless Boss | |
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Clueless Boss: While Siskins is an extremely smug and competent boss when it comes to matters of business, he doesn't seem disturbed in the slightest when Stiller creates a perfect copy of him in Simulacron-1. On the contrary, he's actually pretty amused. | |
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FalseMemories | |
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False Memories: Stiller is quick to recognize Eva as Professor Vollmer's daughter when he finds her going through her father's study, despite her never having previously existed in his world before that very moment. | |
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The Charmer | |
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The Charmer: Stiller gets the attention of three different women throughout the series. He originally shares a relationship with his first secretary, Maya. Once Eva Vollmer is introduced, Stiller quickly forms a relationship with her as well. Eventually, Maya is replaced by Gloria in her role as Stiller's secretary thanks to Siskins' machinations, and Stiller begins to take her out on dates too. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: The Artificial Humans that populate Simulacron-1 are almost always referred to by IKZ staff as "identity units". | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Simulacron-1 is unable to properly function without a "contact unit", an identity unit within the simulation who serves as an intermediary between IKZ and the simulated world. The contact unit for Simulacron-1 is identity unit 0001, nicknamed "Einstein". Once the "real world" is revealed to be a simulation, Stiller tries to figure out the identity of his simulation's contact unit. At the end of the film, Eva reveals that she serves the same role as a contact unit for Stiller's simulation, but is directly projecting herself into the "real world" instead of using an Artificial Human as a messenger. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Stiller dodges IKZ agents, an angry mob, the police, a conveniently-falling tree, the explosion of his country home, and an assassination attempt or two, all while coping with the loss of his job and the mind-breaking revelation that nothing about his world or life is necessarily "real". In the end, he ascends to a higher plane of existence where he can be with Eva, thanks to her pulling a quick Grand Theft Me. | |
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Brain Uploading | |
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Brain Uploading: IKZ employees are able to upload their minds into Simulacron-1, appearing as themselves within the simulated world, mainly for the purposes of interacting with the contact unit nicknamed "Einstein". It's also possible for IKZ employees to take over the mind and body of an identity unit through similar means, allowing them to control the identity unit in a manner similar to controlling a character in a first-person video game. | |
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