Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

mattiasflgrtll6 I was actually looking for a completely different movie when somebody said "Maybe this is the movie you are looking for?". It wasn't, but my God am I glad I stumbled upon it. I am literally EXTREMELY thankful I had the luck to know about a movie which unfortunately is so obscure that I don't even know how many in Sweden have seen it. I have tried to convince a friend for several months to check out this unforgettable piece, but to no avail. What a shame, he's really missing out on something special! The thing is, if you watch this the first time, you will probably scratch your head your skin will tear off and brain mass is sighted. Okay, that was a little too much, but still. What's funny about this is that it's not such a complicated or hard-to-get movie after all. I was so convinced I had missed something on the first watch, so I gave it a second viewing. It turned out it was just as simple as I had interpreted it: a surreal, twisted thriller about paranoia in a strange environment. Simon J. is pretty much a normal guy, who tries to live his own life. But he can't, because his boss gets him under the skin by constantly blabbing about the codes he as a computer programmer was supposed to send. But what are the codes for? Mostly taking place in a apartment building, Simon meets a lot of crazy people, even including Howard, who is constructing a small robot with a intricate voice (it was so hard to hear what it said that I had to turn up the volume if I didn't play incredibly close attention) and Trish, who partakes in some... peculiar activities on her time off. His emotional connection to her is one of the most interesting aspects of the movie. Does he love her for real or is he just trying to seek comfort in someone in a world he can't grasp? His friendship with Howard is also a major part of the movie. But even though he's the only one who relatively keeps his sanity intact, nobody goes free from suspicion, since... ... he gets sent empty packages to his apartment again and again and again, which is what motivates him to act as scared and odd as he does. Why is he always being followed when he goes to the grocery store? Why can't he stop buying so much milk? For how long can he avoid paying the rent? And what's up with this virus causing the deaths of several people? We are all Simon in this movie. His fear and incapability to remain calm while he still tries to anyway is so realistic it's scary. I can imagine acting exactly like him if I was put in such a situation. Uncertain and unrelaxed. The only one who actively helps him out is his friend Nile, but isn't he acting cuckoo as well? How can he always arrive to his apartment in barely a minute? The ending has been criticized, but I think it's perfect. It fits the tone of the movie excellently and I can't picture another way it could've turned out. Be prepared it's very dark, depressing and disturbing. But if you're in the mood for a flick outside the boundary and won't be distracted with checking your email and Facebook, which is unfortunately just the same old stuff, watch it. Maybe you'll be just as obsessed with this movie as I myself got afterwards.

MBunge This film was an absolute chore to sit through. With some bad movies, you can actually enjoy how horrible they are. This is the sort of film that as you're watching it, you wonder if you wouldn't be better off going into the kitchen and finding out if you can fit an entire spatula inside your mouth.The story is about Simon J (Jeremy Sisto), a socially maladjusted computer programmer. As he tries to complete some code for a sweaty man who yells at him over a web cam video feed, Simon starts to find these packages in his apartment. They're empty and he has no idea how they're getting into his place. He asks everybody he meets if they know anything about the packages - his landlord, who watches everything in the building on his bank of security camera monitors; his neighbor, who's building an android head that he treats like his young son; another neighbor, who's creating a virtual reality video game and using Simon as one of the characters; the building handyman, who talks like a man in need of psychiatric medication; Simon's courier, who delivers computer parts and emergency supplies of milk to him; and the woman who just moved in to the building, who finds Simon's pathetic inadequacies very attractive. The vague excuse of a plot in this movie sees Simon get more and more crazed as he investigates a secret conspiracy that may or may not exist while people are killed in his building and found with their brains scooped out.This is a boring movie. All of the actors, except the striking Deborah Unger, are playing quirky and offbeat characters. Except they're not interestingly quirky, where you want to find out more about them. They're "why am I paying attention to this person" quirky, where you'd be happier if they just went away. There's no real tension generated by the story, so they try and gin it up with all this scary music and dark and gloomy settings. The plot plods along because the script dictates where it's going, not because one scene naturally leads to another. You can tell the filmmakers think they're making some sort of commentary on corporate consumerism and social isolation, but it's nothing more than rudimentary and remedial allusions to well-worn tropes.I did happen to watch all of the deleted scenes, which I didn't expect considering how little I enjoyed the movie. But I couldn't get to sleep and wanted to know just how much worse the stuff that got cut could have been than what they left in. When I watched the scenes, I found something interesting. It's not that they were any good, but if they had been included in the film it would have made the story more understandable, more conventional and more linear. T he deleted scenes would have connected things together and instead of just being a bunch of stuff that happens, they would have turned the film into a journey with a beginning, middle and end and a reason why it starts at point A and ends up at point Z.In watching them, I think I know why there were cut out of the film and it wasn't to try and make it any better. I think the filmmakers finished this movie, looked at it in a screening room and knew it sucked. Whatever it is they were attempting, I think they knew they failed. And then I think they had a clever idea. They went back and deleted a bunch of scenes that helped the movie make sense, cutting out the connective tissue of the story, in the hope that it would make Paranoia: 1.0 seem weird and arty enough that a certain type of viewer would look at it and convince themselves the movie is better than what it really is. I don't know if they were successful, but I do know I'm not that type of viewer.

innocuous Kara Unger co-stars, and that's always good. But this film basically throws away everything it works so hard to achieve. The first 30 minutes or so are fairly engrossing (in a "Dark City", "Matrix", "Strange Days" sort of way) and the settings and characters are intriguing. Then things start to go down the tubes.*****SPOILER ALERT If you are watching the action fairly closely, you will see the entire plot of the movie foreshadowed at least three times in the first ten minutes. I kept expecting that the movie would end with some sort of surprise, but it didn't. This complete lack of suspense contributed significantly to my lack of enjoyment.*****END SPOILER Eventually, the art-house pretentiousness just wears you down. The plot has a few high points and there's a little bit of titillation, but not much else to keep your interest past the halfway point. By the one-hour mark, I just didn't care about any of the characters and (since I knew what the underlying plot point was) I just sort of gave up.To give the director and crew some due, the film definitely has a "look" that belies the small budget. The apartment house is suitably odd, as are all the tenants. Sisto does a good job with what he's given.Still, I thought this would be more worthwhile than it was.

Efenstor The film is often compared to Darren Aronofsky's "Pi" and it's actually similarly intelligent and visually creative, yet "Pi" is more consistent and logical. So what we have great about "1.0"? First and foremost is its message, which is very relevant for the consumer society of today; the very discovery of that message while watching the movie is a rather exciting thing, yet it's a common thing for intelligent movies; but that's not the point, the point is that "1.0" warns you about living to consume products, the corporations will never care much about you, they only want money, more and sooner. That's why they would never care much even about debugging the programs they put into their consumers. Of course, this movie is a sci-fi because I think it's virtually impossible to create a virus for the human brain, even with some kind of microscopic electronic "mites". But doesn't, say, propaganda sounds like someone's trying to put a mind virus into your brain, to make it possess your will and so to control it? Or weren't communism and fascism a real kind of mind plague striking billions of people? May be then even there are demons who possess people and make them do things they wouldn't like to, and they are actually mind viruses, thoughts that have an ability to transmit themselves using verbal channels? We should learn to watch attempts to control our will and to resist them, or we won't be human anymore just like those poor people in this amazing movie. 7 out of 10, because the pace of the story is yet too sluggish and the visuals are overly grotesque which I don't really like, here "Pi" did better.