Hotspot sci-fi thriller, cyberpunk/neo-noir, and shifter fantasy
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A film where most are required to have chips implanted into their brains. They did allow immigrants or particular individuals not to have them, but they would suffer severe consequences. However, the ones with chips would suffer severe consequences if they did not go along with the chip inside their brain. There were examples of individuals brains, exploding from not following protocol or not maintaining the chip. One experience there is an individual on a bus with a bunch of other people, and he started acting erratically, and then his brain exploded, and the blood got all over everyone. After it happened, the protagonist in the movie took this pocket critter out of his purse and used it to clean off the blood on his arm. The worm like creature was a whitened flashy creature with furry white dish hair on top with teeth similar to hours in a mouth. They seem to also keep them as pets. The boy in the movie slept with his critter somewhere big and somewhere small. It seems at the same critters also helped in the process of eating humans when they are executed for either killing others or committing crimes and then they ate humans, and they were also responsible for the water being drained out of them the container sort of like the movie tank girl from the past. There were also these people that they would call cyber witches that were not plugged in, but were able to hack into the computer system and the crime for that was severe too. There is one instance where the protagonist or detectives wife was able to plug in and plug out, and she was this ritualistic singer it seemed where she would perform, and she would have a group of followers who look like they were part of Mad Max‘s heard, and at the same time the rebels in the society where they’d get together to act more on a it like state. There is one instance where after the husband put his son to bed, went to watch his wife and he was wearing mad Max like clothes fur coat with a kilt and pantyhose looking stockings. Very strange actors. They looked Asian or native American. I think the movie was produced in Poland and it might’ve been a Korean film. The cars look like 80s versions of futuristic cars. They were driverless. The detective Otto had a key bill to determine who should be put to death and he could transition into animals, and I do not know if that was part of a dreamlike metaphorical state or whether that was an intention of the movie that he would turn into animals, but mostly a tiger and I don’t know what else he turned into but he would also display more animalistic behaviors if he felt threatened or had to kill someone or if he was getting aroused. When someone was getting executed the whole population who was plugged in so to speak, would have to stop for a moment and watch the whole thing the whole thing what happened and it would kind of be transmitted through their brain where they could see it they could also talk without moving their lips because of being plugged in. The movie took place in a desert like community that looked like a huge city and then also the detective had his own Corey looking place that looked like it used to be an old amphitheater or something like that. There was a Coltart that his drivers car would drop them off at that looked like it was part of the amphitheater and then he would go inside and it looked more like a concrete like Earthship or something like that with very modern structures within they would all have to take their vitamins and it did not seem like they ate any other food however there was an espresso machine in his place. Oh and when the execution what happened the wife was able to help her Son plug out so he would not have to see it but when he would plug out so the speaker or disconnect I think it’s what they said he would also have difficulty rebooting and returning, and there’s a potential that he could get lost each time he would do it and kind of like another world or in his brain or something but he couldn’t see at first when he was coming back and they would have to get him to try and he only had three tries or I guess he would die or Something. The computer or the chip within the brain would sometimes have glitches and cause reactions that were severe and we do not know if the severe reactions were caused by a cyber attack or whether the chip itself decided to do it, but the sun at one point was attempting to commit suicide and was on the edge of the building and could not move, and his father came and rescued him. At the end of the movie, the wife was disconnecting from the main ship, but connecting to a cyber witch, and it was at that point where the detective thought that the cyber witch on a certain level was responsible for all the death, but the detective could attacked, and the cyber witch knew that it was more his wife’s responsibility, but the cyber witch didn’t try too hard to get him to see it and allowed herself to die or be executed by getting eaten alive by those critters. It was a morbid movie and there was a lot of absurdity. It was sci-fi obviously and had an interesting premise on the potential of all of us being plugged in and the conveniences of that, the fears of that, the potential of my control beyond our understanding,
Core Premise & Worldbuilding
Mandatory Neural Chips: Most citizens are required to have brain implants. Refusing or failing to maintain the chip results in severe consequences, including fatal brain explosions for violating protocol.
Immigrant Exceptions: Certain individuals or immigrants are permitted to opt out, but they face harsh societal penalties and discrimination.
Cyber Witches & Resistance: A non-chipped underground group known as "cyber witches" can hack into the central computer network. Cyber hacking carries extreme legal penalties.
Mandatory Execution Broadcasts: When a citizen is executed, the central system forces every chipped person to freeze and stream the execution directly through their visual feed.
Telepathy & Nutrition: Chipped individuals can communicate silently without moving their lips. Society relies on mandatory vitamin supplements rather than regular food, though luxury items like espresso machines still exist.
Environment & Aesthetic: Set in a desert metropolis, featuring driverless 80s-style futuristic cars, brutalist concrete architecture, Earthship-style living quarters, and remnants of old amphitheaters. Produced with an Asian/Native American cast (potentially a Polish-Korean co-production).
Characters & Mechanics
Detective Otto: The protagonist serves as an enforcer with a "key bill" that decides who is put to death. He exhibits animalistic traits when threatened or aroused and shifts into animals (predominantly a tiger), either literally or metaphorically.
The Ritualistic Wife: Otto's wife acts as a leader for a Mad Max-esque rebel cult. She is a ritual singer who can freely plug in and out of the central network and ultimately links up with a cyber witch.
The Son & "Disconnecting": To protect their son from watching mandatory execution streams, the wife helps him disconnect ("plug out"). Disconnecting carries a high risk of getting lost in a void state, allowing only three reboot attempts before death. In one instance, a chip glitch or attack drives the son to the edge of a building before Otto saves him.
The Critters (Pet Cleaners & Executioners): White, fleshy, worm-like creatures with human-like teeth and furry dish-like hair on their heads. Kept as household pets, they clean up messes (such as blood after a passenger's head explodes on a bus), drain bodily fluids, and eat executed criminals alive.
Climax & Resolution
The Final Confrontation: The detective attacks the primary cyber witch, believing she is responsible for the mass deaths.
The Cyber Witch's Death: Knowing Otto's wife is actually behind the plot, the cyber witch puts up little resistance and allows herself to be executed by being eaten alive by the pet critters.
Themes: A dark, absurd sci-fi narrative exploring total mind control, the terrifying trade-offs of technological convenience, and state-enforced compliance.
