Rakka (film)

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Movie
Original title Raqqa
Country of production Canada , United States
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 22 minutes
Rod
Director Neill Blomkamp
script Neill Blomkamp, Thomas Sweterlitsch
production Steven St Arnaud
music Lorne Balfe
camera Manoel Ferreria
cut Julian Clarke ,
Neil Meiklejohn ,
Tony Dean Smith
occupation

Rakka is an American - Canadian military science fiction - short film released by Oats Studios and directed by Neill Blomkamp in 2017 .

action

Chapter 1: World

In the near future, the earth will be attacked by technologically superior and highly aggressive reptilian aliens . Humanity is on the verge of extinction. Millions have died or been enslaved. The aliens are terraforming the earth in favor of their living conditions. They burn down forests, destroy cities, and build huge megastructures that release methane into the atmosphere, making the air less and less breathable for people, especially when approaching them. The structures also heat the earth's climate with the methane, which flooded the port cities. They also built a kind of breeding facility in which trapped people serve as paralyzed and fixed incubators for their young.

The action takes place in 2020, from the perspective of a Texan unit of militiamen who represent the remains of the US Army there . Most of the last surviving people live in underground hiding places and in ruined houses and have just enough provisions, weapons, ammunition and morale to offer some resistance. The resistance fighters use conventional projectile weapons, armored vehicles, pick-up vehicles and technicals . They set booby traps and don't even shy away from suicide bombings. In contrast, the entire high technology of the aliens is based on a kind of oily-black nano- liquid, which can transform and solidify into tools, weapons, structures and spaceships. They also have telekinesis and telepathic powers. With the latter, they can influence and control animals and people.

In order to counteract this, the resisters invented brain barrier hoods ( brainlocks ), which, however, can only be made by hand in very small numbers. The reptilians therefore know that humans cannot keep up with production and that the annihilation of humanity is only a matter of time. The aliens have made the politicians their willless servants by means of brain implants and try with them to voluntarily lure people into the advertised concentration camps (called "conservatories") in order to break the last resistance. They also carry out experiments on people, only a few of whom can survive or even escape.

Chapter 2: Amir & Nosh

Nosh is a tech-savvy pyromaniac and bomb maker who lives as a hermit in a junkyard. He is despised by the resistance fighters for his inclinations, but they need the brain barrier hoods that he builds and barter with him inevitably. Nosh has no interest in restoring the old order, otherwise he would be in prison and lives out his inclinations by blowing up aliens and their reversed human servants in ambushes. He only produces and acts for and with the militia out of self-interest. However, he does not want to sell his biggest bomb to them as long as they do not offer him sick - in his eyes dispensable - people as "live bait" for his booby traps in exchange, which the militia refuses with disgust.

The resistance fighters found Amir, who escaped from extraterrestrial captivity, and take him into custody. In one of their experiments, he was provided with cybernetic implants on his head and shoulder. The leader Jasper releases him from custody with a request to help the resistance, much to the annoyance of some militiamen, as he has been changed and could possibly pose a security risk. But Amir is severely traumatized by his experiences, does not speak and appears listless. The sensitive resistance fighter Sarah, whose daughter fell victim to the alien experiments, takes care of him, gives him food and drink and in return tries to persuade him to help them with his newly acquired skills.

Chapter 3: Victories (Siege)

Amir has recovered a little physically and mentally. Thanks to his implants, he sees a wounded alien on the run in a vision of the future. Sarah, who has the theory that the few survivors of the alien experiments have a certain disposition and a kind of island talent , pleads with him to help them, since the militia willing to make sacrifices now openly want to attack the aliens. If he would help them, the militiamen would not have to die and the terrible experiments he suffered from, and the genocide would finally stop. The more she persuades him, the more his eyes change and he sees the future vision of the impending attack more clearly. Amir, still dumb, predicts that the militia will succeed in shooting down an alien space fighter and injuring the pilot. Sarah asks him if they can learn how to hunt the reptilians and teach them to fear. He still does not answer her and sees that the wounded alien is using telekinesis to throw one of the militiamen against a wall, dropping his brain barrier, making him fight for himself by telepathy. However, after being warned several times, the latter is finally shot by his own comrades after he has wounded a comrade. Sarah says to Amir that he now has the powers that the aliens have and that he should use them for humanity. Finally, he sees how the militia manage to incapacitate the aliens, whereupon the commander orders Jasper to cut off his head. Sarah urges the still mute Amir to use his abilities now, they have no other alternative.

production

Raqqa was released on June 14, 2017 and is the first short film from a series, called Volume 1 , experimental - non-contiguous - short film series by the American-Canadian Oats Studios , which are published free of charge on YouTube and Steam . From the second series of short films onwards, these will be chargeable. Neill Blomkamp had already made short films at the beginning of his career, some of which, like Alive in Joburg, became District 9 and with Tetra Vaal became Chappie full feature films.

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