Teknolust
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Teknolust |
| Original title | Teknolust |
| Country of production | USA , UK , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lynn Hershman-Leeson |
| script | Lynn Hershman-Leeson |
| production |
Oscar Gubernati Lynn Hershman-Leeson John Bradford King Youssef Vahabzadeh |
| music |
Klaus Badelt Mark Tschanz |
| camera | Hiro Narita |
| cut | Lisa Fruchtman |
| occupation | |
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Teknolust one is US-American - British - German science fiction - film drama from the year 2002 . Directed by Lynn Hershman-Leeson , who also wrote the script and co-produced the film.
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The scientist Rosetta Stone works on the artificial production of the body organs and experiments with her own DNA . She creates three copies of herself through cloning : Ruby, Olive and Marinne. They live in a cyber space. Marinne and Olive have a very loving relationship and seek physical contact with each other. Ruby appears more independent. Each clone has only one color: Ruby red, Olive green and Marinne blue.
Rosetta refers to the three clones as "her family". In the course of the film it is learned that her real family mysteriously died of a virus, only she survived. It turns out that the clones need a constant supply of chromosome Y. One of the women, Ruby, gets genetic material for the other. That genetic material is sperm. Ruby has her own homepage from which she attracts men. Ruby goes out at night to sleep with men. She insists on safe sex because she boils the ejaculate in water and drinks it with her "sisters" and squirts it pure on the back of her hand. This is how the clones can survive. Before Ruby can go, she has to do a movie update. She sleeps and “learns” from classic romance films how men and women “work”. Since the men become impotent due to the sexual intercourse with the stranger and get a barcode on their foreheads in a suspected allergic reaction , the FBI soon takes notice. The FBI agent Edward Hopper is now investigating. Phantom images are made of the quarantined men, Ruby can be clearly recognized. During the investigation, Hopper learns that they all had sex with one and the same woman and that her PC crashed the next day. Theories of viruses that bypass humans and computers are emerging.
The whimsical neighbor boy Sandy is dissatisfied with his job as a copier. He has no girlfriend, lives with his mother and prefers to spend the time at work playing the conductor in front of various machines. The situation comes to a head, and under the pressure of the investigation, Rosetta is increasingly betraying itself because she wants to prevent her illegal cloning from coming out. She also neglects her clones, of which Marinne in particular reacts irritably and dissatisfied. She feels isolated and demands freedom and self-determination. To compensate for this, she buys online in order to adapt more to the others “outside”. Rosetta forbids Ruby to move out of cyber space. It is now too dangerous. She gives them synthetic sperm to keep them alive. Marinne refuses the admission because it tastes disgusting. This leads to a deficiency symptom and she goes into shock. Due to the acute situation, Ruby decides to go out despite the ban.
Everywhere in the city there are phantom pictures, copies of which Sandy made and fell in love with the unknown beauty. The next day, Rosetta notices Ruby's disobedience and is upset. In desperation, she confides in Dirty Dick, an obscure person. Hopper and Dirty Dick have had an affair in the past. When asked why she made clones in the first place, she explains that she had no idea that it would be so difficult to control them. She wanted to train them for menial jobs and just as company. This is heard by Marinne and Olive, who have removed themselves from cyber space without authorization. Hopper shows Rosetta a phantom image of the suspect, she claims it is herself. A fetish, she likes to dress up like that to slip into another role. With a heavy heart he arrests her.
After the overheard conversation between Rosetta and Dirty Dick, Marinne and Olive go out, first to the hairdresser, then to a bar. Because their immune systems cannot cope with the outside world, they both get sick. Your system will run a virus scan when you get home and discover a virus. After the scan has been successfully completed, the clones and the previously infected men are "clean" again. That same evening Ruby wants to buy "juicy protein" because she has seen what Rosetta eats. She goes into a donut shop and orders a ruby (red), olive (green), and marinne (blue) donut. When she wants to pay with condoms instead of money, the astonished saleswoman refuses. Sandy steps up, pays the donuts and sits down at a table with her. He offers her a donut, which she happily begins to eat. It tastes awful, after the first bite she pushes the plate back. But out of friendliness she continues to eat it when Sandy offers it to her again. Both spend the evening without sex. They fall in love.
Dirty Dick reveals to Hopper that it couldn't have been Rosetta because she is still a virgin. Hopper is relieved because he fell in love with the inconspicuous scientist in the course of the investigation. He brings her home, there they sleep together. While Rosetta was away, Marinne cracked the code that protects the system. She makes new clones herself to populate her cyber space. The credits show that Ruby is pregnant with Sandy.
Reviews
David Rooney suspected in Variety magazine on March 17, 2002 that the film was conceived as a parody - but his humor did not come through. Tilda Swinton turned off her "acting mode" . The film seems like futuristic visions of yesterday.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an "erotically charged female cyber-fantasy that would like to make a playful contribution to the clone debate, but whose story was not well developed" . The main actress could "not escape the depths of the book" .
Awards
Lynn Hershman-Leeson won an award from the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2002 and was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award of the Portuguese Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto in 2004.
backgrounds
The film was shot in San Francisco . The world premiere took place in January 2002 at the Sundance Film Festival . A screening at the Toronto International Film Festival followed on September 12, 2002, followed by another on May 15, 2003 at the Cannes International Film Festival and other festival participations. The film was shown in individual cinemas in the USA in 2003, where it grossed around 29,000 US dollars . In Germany, the film was first shown on television on February 21, 2004.
Web links
- Teknolust in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Teknolust at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Teknolust at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review by David Rooney, accessed on February 11, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Teknolust in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on February 11, 2008
- ↑ Filming locations for Teknolust, accessed February 11, 2008
- ↑ Teknolust premiere dates, accessed February 11, 2008
- ^ Box office results for Teknolust, accessed on February 11, 2008
