The butterfly effect Antiviral forecast 2012 from Brandon Cronenberg did not come true – it is unlikely that during a pandemic, someone will want to buy the same strain of coronavirus as the favorite star. In the new work, the director decided to predict once again, deepening his view into a new method of contract killings, when the performer enters the brain of another person (hello, cyberpunk) and commits a crime with his hands. The main thing is to leave the body of an involuntary criminal in time by his alleged suicide.
Tasia Vos was considered a reliable assassin, until one day she decided to use a couple of dozen stabs instead of one bullet. Her supervisor, examining the behavior of the ward, suspiciously tells her that such actions continue to connect Tasya with the person she once was. (I wonder who she was...) It is now she does not get her hands dirty (staining strangers) and lives in a very ordinary house with her husband and son.
"Did you want this yourself?" - the question of the authorities about the use of the knife remains unanswered.
Densely shed blood penetrates into the heroine’s consciousness, into her everyday life and “work”, forming (or expanding) a crack in her personality. Unpleasant surprise for the authorities begins when this crack for the resistance begins to use a new murder weapon, one Colin Tate, a former drug dealer and a man, apparently, with all the different vices. The struggle of two wills within the same body, their successful visual interpretation become a vivid expression of the expanding crack. Colin, with his more holistic consciousness, would clearly be the winner in a one-on-one fight.
Tasi's story is a warning to all fans of bloody video games. A crack in her mind is inevitable with such a gap between the “worker” and the home, virtual and real spaces, as follows from the last bloody scene. With a few optional shots, Tasya destroys the gap, breaking the cracked vessel of the soul to smithereens. Now it will completely disappear into virtuality, becoming an even more hated creature for anyone who retains even a little of their will. Previously, she felt sorry for at least a butterfly killed as a child. Now it is just a machine, with the eyes of a robot looking at the almost invisible human action that opened the way to this world for a monster.
6 out of 10
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