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One Point 0
Ein gráða / Paranoia: 1.0
USA / Iceland / Romania 2004
produced by Kyle Gates, Thomas Mai, R.D. Robb, Andreas Grosch (executive), Zachary Matz (executive), Matt Milich (executive), Andreas Schmid (executive), Chris Sievernich (executive) for VIP Medienfonds, ZentAmerica Entertainment, Armada Pictures, I)celandic Film, Hakuhodo, Twin Co
directed by Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
starring Jeremy Sisto, Udo Kier, Deborah Kara Unger, Eugene Byrd, Lance Henriksen, Emil Hostina, Constantin Cotimanis, Sebastian Knapp, Matt Devlen, Bruce Payne, Richard Rees, Constantin Florescu, Ana Maria Popa, Lucia Maier, Giovanni Sampogna
written by Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson, music by Terry Huud, special effects by Ralis Kahn, visual effecs by Dale Tanguay
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It all starts with computer programmer Simon (Jeremy Sisto) receiving
weird packages that contain - nothing. Yet every day he finds a new
package in his appartment, and no matter what efforts he makes to seal off
his appartment from the outer world, the packages keep popping up. After a
while, paranoia kicks in concerning the packages, paranoia that affects
everything from his work to his relations to friends and neighbours - but
when one of his neighbours is killed with him being in the appartment,
Simon figures his paranoia is justified - yet that doesn't help him one
bit, his health is rapidly deteriorating, he finds the compulsion to buy
the same product over and over again, his computer seems to catch virus
after virus (while ironically he's supposed to work on an anti virus
software), and he grows more and more unsure about who to trust, being
torn between his best friend, an all-purpose courier (Eugene Byrd), his
love interest, a nurse (Deborah Kara Unger), his next-door neighbour, an
inventor (Udo Kier) and his robot, or even the police. Eventually, it
becomes apparent that Simon himself has been infected by a computer virus,
and all his courier friend can do to help is give him an update (as the
version 1.0 was bugged) - and now it becomes apparent that the virus is
actually an adware for an almighty food chain tested on the whole
appartment building. But when Simon wants to do something about it, he is
simply turned off (thanks to the virus, he's that much of a machine now)
by the appartment buildings well-meaning maintenance man (Lance
Henriksen), who is actually behind the whole affair. Clever
blend of paranoia/conspiracy theory cinema and social satire that might
not always make perfect sense (and fortunately makes no attempts to
explain everything away) but keeps the audience interested thanks to a
powerful performance by Jeremy Sisto (who, being in almost every scene,
really carries the movie), an elegant directorial effort, and a screenplay
that manages to keep the viewers guessing without alienating them. All
that said, one can of course not dismiss the similarities between One
Point 0 and David Cromenberg's Videodrome (not on an effects-
but a story level) - and in direct comparison, Cronenberg's film is far
superior. Still, One Point 0 is at least worth a look.
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