Lapsis
Science fiction and social satire meld beautifully in this comedy drama about the exploitation of employees by tech companies.
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
Noah Hutton, USA, 2020, 108 min. English spoken, Dutch subtitles.
With Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise, Babe Howard, Ivory Aquino, Dora Madison.