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Karel JanákOperatőr:
Martin ŠáchaZeneszerző:
Ondřej Gregor BrzobohatýSzereplők:
Gabriela Marcinková, Vojtěch Dyk, Zuzana Porubjaková, Ondřej Malý, Ady Hajdu, Pavel Rímský, Roman Luknár, Romana Goščíková, Tomáš Stopa, Milan Bartalský (több)Tartalmak(1)
This psychological thriller reacts to technology’s ever more frequent intrusions into our privacy. Artificial intelligence is supposed to serve humankind. Only time will tell if it will. But what if it slips out of our control and begins to function autonomously? A real-estate developer provides a young couple with a model home in the beta-testing phase, outfitted with a computerized security and household-management system. The husband is the system’s programmer. His wife is a sculptor, moulding statues out of clay. They both long to settle down in a peaceful home. But with time, they learn that their hi-tech household is inhabited by someone else – an AI that serves as a faithful servant, a partner…and a dangerous master. (Art Film Fest)
(több)Recenziók (3)
A young couple moves into a house of the future that permanently monitors its inhabitants and grants them all their wishes. But it soon turns out that it is not a safe arrangement, and necks are at stake. Karel Janák delivers a visually entertaining film starring a very fine Gabriela Marcinková, but unfortunately it gets tripped up by a silly story and incredibly stupid and illogical twists.
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Karel Janák has always profiled himself as an author who likes foreign models. Recently, he has also started to look to Slovakia, which has brought some more interesting ideas. In the end, it turned out that Janák was trying to make a thriller with artificial intelligence. And it worked for him, at least partially. The exteriors are really nice, one moment we are in Prague's Karlín, the next moment somewhere in Slovakia in a beautiful landscape. The cast is also interestingly mixed - there are three strong Czechs, and the rest are Slovaks. I see Marcinková and Porubjakova as interesting discoveries, and Hajdu and Luknár are among the faces I would like to see again. The theme itself is so unusual that one can forgive a lot of things within the whole, the details do occasionally fracture, but I would like to see many more genre films made in Czech meadows and groves with similar energy.
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Sticking the slogan "from the makers of the movies Snowboarders and Rafters" to the poster of a technological thriller intended to be a serious movie, testifies either to a very peculiar sense of humor on the part of the producers, or their complete ignorance concerning audience expectations, because this sort of promotion would only really manage to pull masochists into Czech movie theaters. Now, however, a few words about the movie itself: I would like to appreciate any relevant effort to bring a darker style of movie to the Czechoslovakian movie industry, but this is not really that. The characters experience very strange and disturbing events, however, for some inexplicable reason they seem to be able to completely forget about them and move on, and they are never mentioned again. Overall, the characters in this movie are just superficial eye-candy so shallow that it is frankly ridiculous - especially in connection with the final twist, which is based on the psychological make-up of the female protagonist Zuzana, and it therefore does not work at all. In addition, the screenplay is really cheesy, and does not make any sense at all if you think even a little. In the end, however, it just does not matter, because what we end up with, is the main heroine constantly undressing and flirting with a talking house. The subject matter tries to be terribly modern, yet it feels as if it is stuck in the last century (while watching this movie, I was reminded of the very similar Demon Seed, which is now over forty years old and a much, much better movie). By itself, Intimate Enemy is a completely forgettable movie, but what I probably will never forget is the incredibly ubiquitous product placement. Czech filmmakers are unique in this respect, because in their hands product placement punches you so hard in the face that it makes many Czech movies one long-winded over-the-top slapdash advertisement. Ridiculous, really ridiculous.
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