The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
Genre: Drama / Scifi
Duration: 94 minuten
Country:
Austria / Germany
Directed by: Sandra Wollner
Stars: Lena Watson, Dominik Warta and Ingrid Burkhard
IMDb score:
5,4 (1.552)
Releasedate: 3 December 2020
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
The Trouble with Being Born plot
The android Elli lives with a man she calls her father. In the summer they spend their time in the pool, at night they reminisce together with which he has programmed her. Moments that mean a lot to the man, but which in fact generate nothing for Elli. Until one night she becomes aware of an echo. This leads her to the forest.
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Actors and actresses
Elli / Emil, Android
Georg
Frau Schikowa
Elli
Toni
Birgit (uncredited)
Reviews & comments
james_cameron
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- 6983 messages
- 9777 votes
Interesting, if quite slow film about an android who helps a father cope with the loss of his daughter. Due to certain rather intimate actions, the film comes uncomfortably close to child pornography, but because we are dealing with a kind of science fiction here, we will turn a blind eye. I found the second half a lot more interesting than the first. The static camera work and the detached approach to the whole thing is reminiscent of the work of director Michael Haneke, who, not entirely coincidentally, also comes from Austria.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
I had little prior knowledge of this film, so I was initially very shocked by the way the father reacted when his daughter fell into the pool. "Alright, not again," came out to crawl surprisingly slowly into the pool and get her out. Not much later you realized that his daughter was an android and not a flesh and blood person.
And then it becomes interesting how you look at what Wollner presents you from a moral point of view. Despite the fact that it is a mechanical doll, your eyes tell something completely different. Because everything seems lifelike and Elli also seems to have feelings and emotions, you then look at the father's transgressive actions with a very bitter feeling.
It's a pity that the film jumps to a second part in which a boy Emil lives with his grandmother. Their bond is artificial. To be honest, I would have liked to have gone further into Elli's story. I have to guess why. A film with indeed an open ending with unanswered questions. Mysterious, strange, but also fascinating. I would have liked to see it more developed.
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keukenzout
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- 429 messages
- 473 votes
A bit boring, a bit nothing. I think I'm on the smarter side of the scale, but the deeper meaning of all this has been lost on me.
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