What if the aliens were sociologists?

Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2003)

The plot is somewhat similar to that of "The Matrix", in the sense that people living in the dark city can't know for sure what's real and what's not. The big difference is that here everything is done by manipulating people's minds, and not by running a complex simulation. Some aliens are trying to understand what makes a human being an individual; in order to do that, they steal someone's memories and implant them into another guy. Will the latter behave exactly as the former would have done, or differently? It's all a big social experiment, with humans as cavies; but something goes wrong, and one man, according to Darwin's theory (survival of the fittest) evolves and becomes able to change the world himself, exactly like Neo in Matrix. But this movie came first!