World on a Wire (1973, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

Before The Matrix, before Tron, there was World on a Wire — a two-part German TV epic about a scientist who discovers that reality might be a computer simulation. Fassbinder shoots it like a fever dream of mirrors and paranoia.
It’s slow, cerebral, and visually hypnotic — the kind of movie that makes you question if you’re watching it, or if it’s watching you.

Rating: 5 / 5