Virtuosity story

movie: Virtuosity (1995) · 1995-08-04

A disgraced police detective is released from prison on the condition that he apprehend a sadistic, serial murdering android.

24 total · 12 major · 12 minor

Theme	Level	Motivation
android	major	The SID 6.7 sentient computer program came to inhabit a self-regenerating android body.
attitude of superiority	major	The SID 6.7 virtual reality amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history was conceited and generally full of himself.
coping with the death of one's entire family	major	Parker grieved again and again over his murdered wife and daughter and was generally torn up over the incident.
law enforcement	major	The story follows the disgraced LAPD lieutenant Parker Barnes as he works to apprehend the psychopathic android whose personality contains elements of the deranged killer who'd murdered Parker's own wife and child.
psychopathy	major	The SID 6.7 virtual person, being an amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history, showed no feelings or understand for the human beings he was sadistically killing, after he managed to transfer himself into an android body.
sadism	major	Being an amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history, the SID 6.7 virtual person (in the body of a self-regenerating android) repeatedly delighted itself in inflicting pain and suffering on others, especially Parker.
self-healing ability	major	SID 6.7's android body kept regenerating itself after sustaining physical damage, such as bullet wounds.
serial murder	major	The VR amalgam of the most violent serial killers throughout history SID 6.7 transfered itself into an android body and went on a killing spree.
speculative nanotechnology	major	A main novelty of the film is that SID 6.7's android body self-repaired itself by means of silicon-based nanotech.
speculative virtual reality	major	Important portions of the film took place in a virtual reality environment that was essentially indistinguishable from reality.