Brainstorm story
The film follows a research team's efforts to perfect a system that directly records and replays the sensory experiences and emotional feelings of a subject, and the efforts by the company's management to exploit the device for military ends. After a researcher records her death from a heart attack, her colleagues join forces to retrieve the information and play it back.
13 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brain-computer interface | choice | A team of scientists invented a special headset that allows sensations to be recorded from a person's brain and converted to tape so that others could experience them. |
| husband and wife | major | Michael and Karen were going through a messy separation. |
| reconciliation | major | Michael and Karen patched things up and saved their marriage with the help of a headset that enabled them to directly share their sensations with one another. |
| romantic love | major | Michael and Karen rekindled their love for one another with the help of a headset that enabled them to directly share their sensations with one another. |
| the military-industrial complex in society | major | The company management willingly cooperated with the military against the project scientists' wishes to repurpose the sensory experience recording device into a device that brainwashes people. |
| unethical business practices | major | The company management willingly cooperated with the military against the project scientists' wishes to repurpose the sensory experience recording device into a device that brainwashes people. |
| anger | minor | Michael erupted in anger at Karen when he used the special headset to experience her thoughts. |
| computer hacking | minor | Michael hacked into his company's maximum security computer system. |
| early computer | minor | Michael hacked into his company's maximum security computer system over an early 80s era desktop computer. |
| father and son | minor | Michael and and his young son Chris. |