BRAINSTORM

BRAINSTORM. Douglas Trumbull, dir. USA: MGM/UA, 1983.

Invention of a device that can record and play back mental and emotional activity, leading to inevitable scenes of machine-mediated sex and death.

According to Jason W. Ellis in his review in SFRA Review #314 (Winter 2015 [sic]): pp. 26-27,[1] discussed in Sharon Packer's Neuroscience in Science Fiction Films (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015). Useful Wikipedia entry, at link.[2]