The Reel Review - The Congress

Описание: The Congress which is in cinemas now. An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider. Watch the video for 'the reel deal' on the film...

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ABOUT THE CONGRESS

Robin Wright plays an aging actress with a reputation for being fickle and unreliable, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her roles anymore. She agrees to sell the movie rights to her digital image to Miramount Studios (a portmanteau of Miramax and Paramount Studios) in exchange for a hefty sum and the promise to never act again. After her body is digitally scanned, the studio will be able to make films starring her using only computer-generated characters.

Twenty years later, her character attends the Futurological Congress, which showcases Miramount's new technology that allows people to transform themselves into animated avatars. In this mutable illusory state, they can become anything they want to be, be it a perfectly seductive goddess or their favorite action hero. Miramount wants to sell her image to punters, allowing them to transform themselves into her.

She agrees to the deal but has a crisis of conscience, and does not believe she or anyone else should be turned into a product. She publicly voices her views, enraging the hosts of the Congress. Shortly afterwards, the Congress is attacked by rebels ideologically opposed to the technology. Robin hallucinates her own execution.

The doctors decide that Robin is so ill, she must be frozen until a time when a treatment for her mental illness is found. She is revived many years later.

With assistance from the lead animator who used her digital likeness to make movies for Miramount. Robin goes in search of her son who she has not seen since she was frozen. Hoping that he has learnt to cope in this strange world with his visual and hearing disabilities.