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HIDDEN RESERVES
The corporation sells ‘death
insurance’. Those who don’t have
it are forced to remain alive (in
body only) as repositories of other
people’s consciousnesses until any
‘life debt’ they had is repaid.
Vincent, a top insurance salesmen,
firmly on the way up the corporate
ladder, is secure in his work, sleeping
with his boss, and able to afford an
extravagent lifestyle, a life that many
Wall Street brokers would envy.
One day he meets Lisa, part of an
activist group that wants an end to
the storage facilites and the release
of the human data machines.
After Vincent fails to secure a rich
client and is demoted, his one chance
of regaining his former status is to
infiltrate this resistance via Lisa.
Of course, Vincent is drawn to her,
and questions his own values and his
drive for power.
A very slick dystopian noir.
THU 3 MAY
7.15PM
STRATFORD
PICTUREHOUSE
Dir: Valentin Hitz
Year: 2016
Language: German/
Russian/English
subtitles
Runtime: 96
Country: Austria
UK
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