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Tokenized Human
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Let's talk about Cassandra. This is Misery reimagined as a Black Mirror episode directed by an AI version of David Lynch. In German. Dying of cancer but desperate not to leave her family, Cassandra implores her husband to revive one of his old experiments and transport her consciousness into a robot hooked up to a computer system within their house. Horst, her pseudo-scientist, tinkering husband, responsible for giving the woman cancer in the first place while performing a MacGyver style echography with a massively radioactive piece of cobbled together equipment (and deforming a daughter they keep hidden in a basement room to save her from the dangers of the world in the process) decides he may have made a mistake when Cassandra goes full on Annie Wilkes, and does whatever it will take to keep the family together. Intercut with this timeline is a parallel narrative of a new family who have bought the house, unaware that Martha Stewart and the T800s love child lies in wait, ready to make their
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Tokenized Human
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lives an absolute fucking misery in order to keep them all together, which involves but is not limited to locking a little girl in an oven until she gets second degree burns, sending the mother to a mental institute when the family believe the maniacal robot's stories over her, cutting the husbands finger off which she uses later to open his phone while skewered on the edge of a knife-hand attachment, and twisting his nob into the shape of a pretzel. It's all a bit macabre, and over the top but what struggled to gain my attention initially, kept me up last night desperate to see how it finished (and also how fucked up it could get.) The robot is a janky seventies era imagined bot on castors with TV screen head attached, that looks like it comes straight out of the pages of a post war comic, but it works brilliantly with the subtle bubbling underground of absolute psychotic mayhem that Cassandra brings, partly because
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Yellowmustard
@yellowmustard30
I enjoyed watching this Ngl it was creepy af😅
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