OneSentenceReview

After watching this movie do yourself the favor to complete your knowledge by watching the 8minute speech right at the top of his website DavidTait com which he gave on behalf of the NSPCC in 2012 (way before the film was made) There you get the chilling story directly from the man who lived through it. And finally end with reading about how the NSPCC helps children in many ways possible.

May many be inspired to spread the word, or even join to help this cause - there are many possible ways.

(btw his YT channel 'David Tait' has only 350 subscribers, why? And this movie just 14 reviews, wow - even really bad B movies about purple zombie frogs have more reviews - shows who inconvenient the topic is for most people, and how important organizations like above truly are)

..but I enjoyed watching this little movie: First off, of course the narrative is known sort of (Dangers of AI) but, if you resist watching Spoiler-Trailers or reading Spoilers you'll enjoy the enfolding of an interesting Story + quirky characters, which will leave you thinking afterwards.

With a (perhaps) comparably quite low budget (*) Rain Rannu managed to create a modern mix between Mary Shelleys' Frankenstein aka "The Modern Prometheus", Roman Polanskis' Dance of the Vampires and Johann Wolfgang von Goethes' The Sorcerer's Apprentice" ("Der Zauberlehrling") which all strangely fit our nowadays Ai dilemma although all above written 200y earlier.

Coming across a bit slow at times I'd have wished for a more dynamic, accelerating storyline with maybe a bit more twisted plot, but the fabulous 'lost places' like setting in the (presumably) Estonian or somewhere Baltic Cold- or II War Bunker and the great landscape.

Make sure you don't miss the epilogue of Jaan Tallinn, who is an Estonian billionaire computer programmer and investor known for the development of Skype and file-sharing application FastTrack/Kazaa.

(*I simply assume it was only a low budget necessary with 1 derelict bunker in the woods, 1 Tent, 2 Server Racks, 2 Drones and 10 actors ;) nevertheless and even more so, this is a well done great slow burner - just don't expect any Special effects or CGI, think more Theater Play, in a good way )

...in my opinion. Strangely enough these were the 3 oldest reviews after release, and only the last one from 2020 I can wholeheartedly agree on - he understood the intention of this film.

As a regular "Hetero Honk" (word from the movie), I'd add that One could indeed say it's a manifest for:

• making Love in a sensual way (many could learn from),
• Women to be allowed to come too, be it on film or IRL (..Hashtag "MeToo" is already taken, meeh)
• Acceptance of the preferences and physiques of regular humans, and that everyone can and should get along with each other well
• Polyamory in whatever form (insert-List-here)

and a Manifest against:

• the usual male-centered 14min mainstream P0rn clip, made for men to come quick (and women not at all),
• the unnatural, unachievable body-image held high in social media creating rising psychological problems (relatively new issue),
• Jealousy and serial-monogamy and its Drama (relatively old issue).

I would Not describe this little movie as P0rn, but a film about the delight of human sexual spontaneity as it's best.

May it inspire many!

Respect for all the brave Actors and the Makers, for successfully achieving the tricky balance-act between all the sexual preferences involved without alienating nor putting off Anyone.

PS: and don't forget to watch the OutTakes, was it either before/after the Credits, they are great too :)