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Hi, Mystery Recapped here. Today,
I am going to explain an Australian
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Science Fiction Film called ‘Other Life’.
Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care!
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The opening scene features the Amari
siblings attired in black wetsuits at
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the beach. The sister; Ren, wants
to go for a swim but her brother;
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Jared, is a bit nervous as he is
scared of high tides. Nonetheless,
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after a bit of insisting, he joins her in
the water, and the two have a lot of fun.
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Subsequently, the scene transitions
to a vivid and changing pattern,
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showing a view from the window of a building. Ren
awakens with a stream of black fluid dripping from
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her eye. She is seen sitting on the floor
with empty plastic eye drop containers.
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Ren is the lead researcher at a technology firm
she co-founded with an entrepreneur named Sam.
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Using nanotechnology, she invented OtherLife,
a biological form of virtual reality that can
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generate lifelike memories. Using it, one can
travel to a completely different environment and
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enjoy themselves with the utmost freedom. Right
now, the product has not been made available to
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the market and Ren is testing it on herself.
She is usually supervised by her colleague;
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Byron Finbar. However, unbeknownst to the
others, she is also secretly testing the
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product on her comatose brother. Here, it is
revealed that Jared accidentally drowned while
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they went swimming. Ren managed to save him,
but by that time, extensive damage had been
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done to his brain. From that day, she has been
blaming herself for her brother’s condition.
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In the next scene, Ren is seated with a drug
administration team, and one of the interviewers
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remarks on her outstanding academic achievements,
which ceased four years ago. Ren claims it was
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caused by an accident where her brother almost
drowned. The panel considers OtherLife to be
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a challenging technology to classify, but Ren
describes it as a form of biological software,
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rather than a drug. She explains that it
allows one to program new experiences that
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are chemically indistinguishable from reality.
The interviewers also bring up Ren's father,
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who had previously expressed concerns about
the potential dangers of prolonged exposure
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to her technology, including the risk of seizures
and brain death. Ren acknowledges that there are
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risks because an abuse of any substance,
whether it be an apple, can be dangerous.
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Later, Ren is experimenting with a snowboarding
experience in which she climbs a snowy mountain
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and descends down. However, the program suddenly
goes through a technical issue, which causes
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the whole experience to repeat. Upon awakening,
Ren discovers that she has been immersed in the
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OtherLife world for six days already. Despite
encountering technical glitches, she remains
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optimistic about fixing them and believes that
OtherLife will be a popular product in the future.
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On the other hand, the entrepreneur; Sam is
pitching the OtherLife concept to investors,
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assuring them that the product can be marketed
as a near-instantaneous experience that can
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last for days. After the meeting, Sam and
Ren have a disagreement about the future
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direction of the company. Ren is dealing with
a lot of problems, and in the midst of it all,
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her romantic relationship with a coworker
named Danny suffers due to her lack of time.
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Later that night, Ren and Byron successfully
identify the error in the code and test the
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revised version without any further issues.
It appears that she has completed 482 tests,
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each one of them corresponds to
approximately 20 days in OtherLife.
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A few days later, Ren returns to the hospital
to test the OtherLife on her brother once more,
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and this time his eye twitches, giving her
a glimmer of hope. Unfortunately, when she
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shares it with the doctor, he tells her that
it is a common occurrence in comatose patients.
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The following day, Ren visits her father, who is
a professor at a college. They discuss OtherLife
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and its potential to help Jared come out
of his coma. Ren expresses her confidence
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that the glitches in the technology are merely a
result of bad code, but her father disagrees. He
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argues that mental conditions such as anxiety
and depression are also a type of "bad code."
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Ren becomes upset with her father, feeling that he
has given up on her brother, and warns him against
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unplugging Jared without her consent. However,
the old man dismisses her and walks away.
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While at work, Sam and Byron find out that
the amount of nanites being used are much
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higher than what Ren has reported. They
ask her what simulation she's been running,
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but she doesn't disclose any details, saying that
it's still experimental. A few moments later, Sam
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and Ren are alone when he shares his most recent
idea. He wants the government to license their
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product for use as an alternative to prisons.
According to Sam, the inmates would be trapped
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inside their own heads for years while only a
minute passed in real time, alleviating prison
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overcrowding. However, Ren firmly declines
the proposal, saying it’s not applicable.
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Following this, she heads out of the building
and comes across Danny. The two are meeting
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after a long time apart, so they decide
to spend some private time together. Once
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they are done having coetus, Ren allows him to
try the snowboarding experience in OtherLife,
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which he thoroughly enjoys. After
this, she gets back to work,
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while Danny grabs another eye drop and tries
it, unaware that it is the experimental one
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she designed for Jared. This causes
him to suffer from violent seizures,
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and when Ren notices this, she immediately calls
911. Unfortunately, Danny is unable to survive.
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In the next scene, when Sam
finds out about the incident,
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he confronts Ren and angrily questions her
about the experience that caused Danny's
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death. It appears that all of the experiences
have been thoroughly tested and approved,
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except for that one. This causes a major backlash
in the media, and the officials are on the verge
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of shutting down the company. However, Sam is
not going to let that happen so easily. Using
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his influence and wealth, he strikes a deal in
which the government agrees to drop all charges,
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and in exchange, Ren will have to spend one
year of solitary confinement in OtherLife.
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When the latter learns of this, she is furious
that Sam went behind her back and commercialized
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this idea. However, for the sake of their
company, she agrees to be a part of it.
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Following this, they all proceed to the testing
room, where Byron administers the eye drop to
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Ren. The next second, she finds herself in a small
room that consists of basic necessities of life,
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including bottled water, canned tuna,
sleeping mat, tablet, pen and a toilet.
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Ren begins to spend her time working out, eating,
and taking notes on her tablet. The room she
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is confined in also has a screen displaying the
number of days she has spent there. For the first
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few days, Ren is depressed, remembering Danny
and her brother from the past. But with each day
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passing, she becomes hopeful that she can still
bring her brother back using codes. Eventually,
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a year passes and Ren expects to return to
her real world. However, she crumbles when
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the confinement counter is reset to 001 without
her release. This is when Ren realizes that the
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exit code has failed, prompting her to panic.
She yells and breaks things around her in rage.
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Not long after, she discovers a gap inside the
hatch, which she dislodges in order to make her
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way out. As Ren exits the confinement room, she
comes across a storage area with food and water,
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as well as a monitoring room from where
she was being watched. This makes her
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realize that she had been imprisoned in a
real-world cell the entire time. Just then,
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a guard comes running towards
her, but Ren is not going to
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stay in the confinement anymore. Hence,
she steals a vehicle and flees the area.
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Outside, Ren notices a busy road with OtherLife
advertisements everywhere. Alarmed, she heads
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to her workplace, only to discover that it is
empty. She then goes to the police station, where
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the officer shockingly reveals that Ren has been
recorded living in Italy for the past year. Upon
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hearing this, she attempts to explain that she is
the co-founder of OtherLife and that she had been
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held captive in a cell for the past year. However,
when they go to investigate the cell, it has
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already vanished. This makes the police suspicious
about her story so they simply ask her to go home.
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Feeling lost and unsure of whom to trust, Ren
goes to the apartment she used to live in,
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but she finds someone else residing
there. A short while later, Sam shows
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up and offers to take her somewhere safe,
but Ren, who doesn't believe him anymore,
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runs away from there. She then seeks refuge with
her trustworthy colleague; Cass, who lets her in
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and provides her with food. After a while, Cass
reveals that everyone assumed Ren had cashed out
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and left for Italy. It was apparently a rumor that
the cunning Sam had spread, so as to not arouse
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any suspicions. At this point, Ren is having
a hard time processing everything around her,
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but Cass finally gives her some good news. She
discloses that Danny is actually alive; he never
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died as the doctors managed to resuscitate him
a week after Ren's imprisonment. That night,
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the couple finally reunites, and they
promise to never leave each other again.
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Later, the trio heads to a restaurant where they
discuss the events of the past year. Ren discovers
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that OtherLife has become a major success and is
currently being used for a variety of purposes,
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including long-term confinements. She
then decides to get to the bottom of
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what happened and Danny suggests that she
go to the media and expose Sam. However,
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Ren says that she doesn’t
have any evidence against him.
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In the next scene, using Cass's ID
card, Ren and Danny sneak into the
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OtherLife building and start looking for her
previous data. Inside, they come across Byron,
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who is also revealed to be one of the
conspirators behind the whole scandal.
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Danny immediately restrains him, allowing
Ren to search for the data. Shortly after,
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she manages to locate the hard drive, but by
this time, Byron has already alerted security.
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The couple somehow manages to flee the scene,
after which they get into a car. Along the way,
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Ren discloses that they will need a printer
to prepare the chemical, but since all the
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Otherlife offices in the city are on high alert,
they cannot go there. Suddenly, she remembers
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that she had kept one at her father’s home in
the woods, so the couple quickly heads there.
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Upon arriving, they find the house empty
and Ren gets to work. She spends the whole
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night trying to prepare the chemical, and in
the process, she falls asleep. The next day,
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Ren’s father returns home and she confides in
him about everything. This time, the old man
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is willing to support her mission. Now, with
renewed motivation, Ren gets back to work,
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and it doesn’t take her much time to create
a new, more advanced prototype of OtherLife.
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Wasting no time, she drives to the hospital and
administers it to her brother. Surprisingly,
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the chemical works and Jared wakes up, making
Ren very happy. However, her joy is short-lived
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as the poor guy suddenly starts having seizures.
When the situation gets worse, a distraught Ren
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pulls the plug, finally letting her brother
pass away in peace. Just when it appears that
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the drama is over, Ren starts to experience
fragmented memories of the testing room,
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with people yelling and Byron urging her to
wake up. It is revealed that her supposed
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escape was part of an OtherLife glitch during
her year-long imprisonment. This means that all
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her post-incarceration experiences were also
part of an interactive OtherLife experience.
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Now, Ren finds herself alone on the beach,
and she walks into the water, letting the
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waves wash over her. The water transforms into
kaleidoscopic imagery, and she suddenly awakens
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in the testing room. After going through all
of this, Ren takes some time to calm herself
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down before heading to Sam's cabin. She then
announces that she will take a hiatus from the
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company to concentrate on R&D. She will leave
the company to Sam, but will keep the patent.
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Later, after Ren attends Danny's funeral,
she suddenly gets a call from Sam,
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asking her to come to the testing room to
see something important. When she arrives,
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she finds Sam and Byron reviewing her experience.
The cunning entrepreneur points out a section of
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her brain scan that corresponds to her interactive
experience. He says that she miraculously managed
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to escape the virtual prison, and it could be a
major breakthrough for their future plans. Sam now
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wants her to take part in yet another test to find
more conclusive results, but when Ren refuses,
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he abruptly administers the chemical in her
eyes, forcing her into the same cell. Byron
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reluctantly goes along with it when Sam says
it's the only way to compel Ren's assistance.
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In the other world, Ren manages to calm
herself down, allowing the simulation to
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run faster and loop infinitely. Soon after,
she wakes up on her own in the real world,
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hence beating the virtual prison twice. However,
this time, an angry Ren is not going to let things
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slide so easily. She wipes the chemical
from her eyes and quickly it into Sam’s,
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trapping him in his own year-long OtherLife
imprisonment. The program experiences a bug
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that endangers his life, but Ren refuses
to let Sam escape until he serves the full
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365 days. She even waits for a few extra
days so that he can experience her agony
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when the countdown reset to zero. Once Sam
recovers, Ren leaves him to sob in the chair.
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The movie ends as she and her father
head to the hospital and tearfully
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unplug Jared’s life support. Ren then goes
to the same beach and watches the ocean,
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reminiscing about the good times
spent with her late brother.
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