The Final Cut - Your death is just the beginning
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| German title | The Final Cut - Your death is just the beginning |
| Original title | The Final Cut |
| Country of production | Canada , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Omar Naim |
| script | Omar Naim |
| production | Nick Wechsler |
| music | Brian Tyler |
| camera | Tak Fujimoto |
| cut | Dede Allen , Robert Brakey |
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The Final Cut - your death is only the beginning is a Canadian science fiction - Thriller by Omar Naim from the year 2004 .
action
The Final Cut is the final result of a film cut . For Alan Hakman, working on this final cut is part of his everyday life at Zoe Technologies. But he doesn't edit feature films, but the experiences of real people. These were stored on an organic microchip implanted in the brain before birth throughout a person's life . After his death, Hakman worked as a cutter and put together a kind of fictional film from the recordings that served as a reminder for the relatives and was premiered as a so-called "Rememory" at the funeral service for the funeral.
There are three rules for cutters:
- An editor is not allowed to sell or redistribute Zoe footage.
- A cutter cannot have a Zoe implant.
- An editor is not allowed to edit Zoe footage from different lives into a rememory.
However, the technology of the Zoe implants is controversial because it enables a significant invasion of the deceased's privacy . Hakman learned the dangers of this when he received the bio-implant from Charles Bannister, the late founder of the company “Zoe Technologies”, for the creation of a “Rememory” film. While playing the memories of Bannister, he comes across a scene that suggests that Bannister was abusing his own underage daughter shortly before his death. At this point, however, Hakman continues to scroll. So it remains to be seen whether he will watch the compromising scenes.
An underground organization that, under the leadership of Fletcher, a former cutter, speaks out against the "Zoe implants", does everything in its power to preserve the intimate material of the deceased, who was controversial as a lawyer. Resisters assume that the recordings contain compromising scenes, so threatening to publish them will force "Zoe Technologies" to stop manufacturing the implants.
When Hakman's friend Delila finds the material for the Zoe implant of her deceased ex-boyfriend at Hakman's house, she is furious and destroys the editing and mixing desk known as the “guillotine”.
Hakman also received a Zoe implant. However, his parents could no longer inform him of this, as they died in an accident before his 21st birthday. Since Hakman has seen Bannister's recordings, which have since been destroyed, with his Zoe implant, he moves into the interest of the underground organization. She sees Hakman's Zoe implant as the last chance to get to the destroyed records of Bannister, to make them accessible to the public and thus to uncover the secrets of Bannister and the Zoe group, in order to drive them into ruin. Hakman is in acute danger.
When Hakman visits the grave of Louis Hunt, a childhood friend, in the cemetery, Fletcher and an assistant visit him and shoot him down. You remove his Zoe implant to use against the manufacturer "Zoe Technologies". When, while playing the memories, they come to the point where Hakman hesitated to scroll further, the film ends. The viewer does not find out whether the compromising scenes for which the resistors were looking were even recorded in Hakman's memories. It remains to be seen whether the resistance will achieve the goals they had set for the shooting of Hakman.
Reviews
William Arnold praised on 15 October 2004 at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , the "Appearance and the impressive visual style" ( "steady performances and impressive visual style") .
Awards
- Nomination for the 2004 Golden Bear
- Nomination at the Catalonian International Film Festival 2004
- Nomination at the 2004 Sitges Film Festival
- Screenplay Award at the Deauville American Film Festival 2004
background
The film was shot between June 2003 and August 2003. On the opening weekend receipts of 226,296 were in the US with 117 copies of US dollars recorded. The film grossed just over half a million US dollars in US cinemas, so it did not make it into German cinemas, but is available as a rental or purchase DVD in Germany. On February 11, 2004 it was shown at the Berlinale . The first broadcast on German-language television took place on October 20, 2009 on ZDF .
In one scene, a train can be seen, this is a Berlin S-Bahn line S7 to the station Ahrensfelde on the station Berlin Alexanderplatz .
In the scene in which Hakman enters a pub to buy a gun, the film director Omar Naim can be seen as a seated guest during a cameo for about two seconds.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Filming and visiting dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Premiere dates according to the Internet Movie Database