Thursday, January 21, 2021

LRF NOW Original Film: Self


Self
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
Director: Meirad Tako
Writer: Meirad Tako
Cast: Dev Patel, Meirad Tako

Plot : This is 2060, the world is pretty much perfect, the medical science had progressed so far that they can achieve immortality, people have been injected by smart nano-technology that are able to support every human being from injury and disease. Other achievement that human reached is the ability to conquer the solar system.

The society have been changed and class difference is stronger than ever. Earth is the home of the rich and powerful, while other not-so-comfortable-yet to live planet are filled with the lower class that assigned to built things there.



Earth, 2060.

Jacob Kaliston (Dev Patel) woke up, he reached his phone and look at the calender and sigh. He gets up and going straight to the kitchen where he reached for a knife and cut his fingers of, the blood quickly flooded the kitchen counter, Jacob smiles as if the pain help something, but not long after that the fingers that were cut off grew back, thanks to the nano-technology inside his body.

Jacob gets ready to work.

Jacob is the son of Anthony Kaliston, the most powerful and the richest man in the whole world, the man’s net worth is roughly 400 quadrillion dollars, he had a problem with Jacob’s mom that end with they both split up and selfishly leaving Jacob on earth alone.

Jacob is emotionally unstable, he finds himself to fall in depression quite often, self-harm is the only way for him to going back to reality and accept how fucked up reality is.

Now, Jacob is in the office, he is the CEO of Nano-Corps. The company that were built by his dad and the company that handle the Nano Industry.

He sit alone, his body doesn’t feel any pain, but he suffers, he is suffering by his thoughts.

He always wants to talk about his issue with his ‘Friend’ but never actually did it, their happiness and positivity seems like something that made him feel lonelier than ever.

Now, he tried to talk to his friend about, and he laugh at him, he says he should just Be Happy, how hard is that? He then left Jacob speechless, in silence with his fucked-up thoughts.

He went home, and as usual, he takes a knife and cutting his body parts, fingers, wrist, eye ball, his balls, and every other shit that can be hurt.

A couple days later, one of his quitter friend (Meirad Tako) came to his house, he talks with him for a while, he talk about pretty much anything that Jacob can relate to, so he invited Jacob to his club that maybe can help with the issue and Jacob accept the invitation.

The next day, the friend bring him to the darker side of earth, they enter a abandoned-looking building, inside it is so dark, the friend light a candle as if and he guide Jacob to walk further into the darkness, after walking quite a while in silence on their left there is a gun-shot, Jacob glance to see it, he can see a little girl is shot her brain out, not long after that her head grew back, the girl looks disappointed and point her gun at her head and shoot it again.

The friend tell him to ignore her, “a child is a child” he said as if it was normal, even Jacob shocked.

The walked again, and at the end, they open a big door and a very bright light blind him for a second, after the light is adjusted, the friend welcome him to the Suicide Club, he let Jacob sit and stand in front, he tells everybody that they have a new member, they clapped for him and then the friend tell the people to ready their weapon of choice and under his direction they starts destroying themselves again and again and AGAIN.

Jacob look around in surprise, he looks back to his friend, he is smiling to him and Jacob give him a smile back, he slowly reaches a gun from his backpack that he always carries and point it to his head, he is still smiling. The film black out with the gun-shot sound.





"Self feels like vintage Meirad Tako to me - in a good way. With this LRF Original Film, he has reigned in his ambition to fit the format, but he hasn't shied away from his usual brand of strangeness."






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