Underplayed Gems

Android Re-Enactment (2011)

Android Re-Enactment poster
Directed by
Darryl Shaw
Genre
science fiction film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A retired engineer secretly builds androids based on people from a painful romantic failure. He runs simulations to test if he could have gotten a different result.

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What happens

Android Re-Enactment is a 2011 Canadian science fiction film directed by Darryl Shaw and starring Jeff Sinasac, Adam Buller, and Sarah Silverthorne. The film depicts a stylized, retro future in an unspecified year, in which genetically engineered organic androids, visually indistinguishable from humans, are manufactured by the Empathtek Corporation. The latest and most advanced model they have designed, soon to be released, is the PX-50. The plot focuses on a young Socionics Engineer named Ermus Daglek who has retired from Empathtek, but who has turned down the millions he is owed in residuals in exchange for the company donating him a defunct factory and asking no questions. He uses the factory to manufacture androids based on key individuals from the time in his life when he experienced his greatest heartbreak, and runs simulations to see if any other courses of action on his part could have produced an outcome with romantic success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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