Metropia

2010 "Someone is listening to your thoughts"
Metropia
6.2| 1h26m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 12 May 2010 Released
Producted By: Zentropa Entertainments
Country: Sweden
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://metropiathemovie.com
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In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the voice only leads Roger deeper into a bizarre conspiracy of control - mind and body.

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greatdeceivah Having dabbled in filmmaking myself, i will not make any disparaging comments about the 3d production of this movie. So, yes the animation is clunky and far from perfect, but what do you expect from an independent film with a low budget?The main issues i have with this movie are the silly plot and the characters, and the political propaganda embedded within, something that no amount of 3d effects and fancy production can fix. Let's start with the director, Tarik Saleh, a Swede of Egyptian descent,who may or may not be a practicing Muslim, but he certainly is of middle eastern descend and (for obvious reasons) a fan of multiculturalism.Why does this matter, you ask? Well let's run through the never- ending neoliberal and socialist stereotypes portrayed in this movie:01 - the white male protagonist and his voice are both portrayed as weaklings, indecisive, insecure and impotent losers. 02 - The white protagonist has a tattooed, useless, black girlfriend, a caricature of a woman, as if this was normal in Sweden.. so yes Swedish men.. it is perfectly normal to mix races, to think otherwise you would be a .. RACIST!!! LOL03 - Apparently in the future, those evil racist Swedes will run TV shows, where poor Muslim refugees have to compete to stay there.. oh yes, those poor big eyed refugees, so innocent and defenseless, one can only hope the future will be so kind because now, most of the Muslim "rapefugees" who have invaded Sweden thanks to the complicity of the Marxist neoliberal Swedish government, are too busy living on welfare, burning cars and throwing hand grenades converting parts of a once peaceful, low-crime country into Muslim- only infested, crime ridden ghettos. Poor critters.05 - The rest of the characters are just silly caricatures, including Asian military men, the evil white millionaire and the obligatory manipulative blonde white woman, because we all know that most white people are evil.06 - Capitalism and corporations are all evil, but no mention of the government of course, because we all know Sweden is a socialist country and i am sure Tarik didn't want to upset his multicultural masters.I won't go into details, but the plot of this movie is just so silly, that one has to wonder how this movie got made at all.. no wonder the voice acting on this stupid movie is so inane and lifeless.. as if the actors reading the script just could not believe the idiocy they were reciting.. i am sure they were just doing it for the money.
krowland7584 Wow thank you netflix for this gem. The movie takes you to an alternate world of familiarity and future corporate controlled desolation. I need one movie like this a year. A fresh interesting idea with a clear vision of what it's trying to convey. Yeah I know that people won't like the ending to this. Grow up. This has great dialogue through inner monologue and minute facial inflections that let you into the main characters desolated world. Visually this is stunning and is meticulously done. Who ever worked on this project deserves serious credit. The color pallet keeps it cold and weary the whole time, and characters keep it compelling the whole time. I couldn't peel my eyes off this world for the duration of the film. There's so many levels of eye candy its rediclious. It's been a while since I was like wow in such a slow menial film that it self doesn't have to do a whole lot to pull you into this surreal world. Definitely worth watching.
kosmasp It's a really great idea, the concept of the voices. And then taking it to another level. The animation might need a bit of time getting used to, but it does work excellent once you get into that mindset (no pun intended). You should be easily offended by nudity too, if you want to watch. There's not much of it, but there is some, so be careful if you don't like animated nudity then.The concept should win you over, if you like conspiracies and it will satisfy them too. A really good sci-fi movie with a great voice cast (if you have the disc, watch the voice recording feature) and some nice overall ideas then.
Charles Herold (cherold) I love the look of this movie. It looks like they took photographs, made the heads bigger than the body and the eyes bigger than they should be and animated the result. It is purposely non-fluid and wonderfully conveys a grim, claustrophobic quality. I also thought the basic premise was cool, but I'm going to put in a spoiler section to complain about how little sense it made, ultimately.********* SPOILER SECTION BELOW ************ In the movie, the protagonist hears a voice speaking paranoid thoughts. For example, it tells him his girlfriend might be cheating on him. But he doesn't feel they are his own thoughts. Is he going crazy? It's a cool idea, and it's cool to discover that as a matter of fact he is not going crazy; a corporation has developed a shampoo that allows operatives to use people's brain for communicating and receiving, meaning you can see what is happening in someone's life and comment on it through a microphone that broadcasts into their brain.That's awesome, but here's the problem: why is the guy on the microphone telling the protagonist his girlfriend is cheating on him and other paranoid thoughts? He's not a sadist, so he's not just doing it to be mean. Presumably this is his job. But it appears that the shampoos purpose is actually for mind control, to convince people to buy certain products or vote certain ways, so how is this goal achieved? The filmmakers seem to have liked the idea of someone broadcasting paranoid thoughts into someone else's brain to the point where they didn't care if it made any sense in terms of the story, and that annoyed me. But I still thought it was a cool movie.