One Point O (2004)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Directors:

Jeff Renfroe
Marteinn Thorsson

Writers:

Jeff Renfroe (writer)
Marteinn Thorsson (writer)

Release Date:

21 January 2005 (Iceland)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Are you infected?

Plot:

After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer begins a personal investigation into their origins.

Plot Keywords:

Package | Apartment | Computer | Milk | Paranoia

Awards:

6 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Richard Rees	...	Hiep Pham
Jeremy Sisto	...	Simon
Udo Kier	...	Derrick
Deborah Kara Unger	...	Trish (as Deborah Unger)
Bruce Payne	...	Neighbour
Constantin Florescu	...	Tall Man
Ana Maria Popa	...	Alice
Matt Devlen	...	Cashier (as Matthew Devlen)
Lance Henriksen	...	Howard
Eugene Byrd	...	Nile
Emil Hostina	...	Landlord
Constantin Cotimanis	...	Detective Polanski
Sebastian Knapp	...	Detective Harris
Michelle Villa	...	911 Operator / Answereing machine / Laughing (voice)

Also Known As:

1.0 (USA) (alternative spelling)
Ein gráða (Iceland)
Paranoia: 1.0 (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexual content and violent images.

Runtime:

USA:92 min (Sundance Film Festival)

Country:

USA | Romania | Iceland

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Belgium:16 | Brazil:16 | Canada:14A | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Czech Republic:15 | Germany:16 | Iceland:16 | Italy:VM18 | Luxembourg:17 | Netherlands:16 | Poland:15 | Spain:18 | USA:R | Japan:R-15

Filming Locations:

MediaPro Studios, Bucharest, Romania

Company:

VIP 2 Medienfonds

Trivia:

During Simon's programming, code quickly flashes. The scrolling code is a Perl script that virus scans HTTP/FTP downloads request on a UNIX server after passing through the Squid proxy server. This is a real project named "Viralator".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Howard and Simon are sitting in the basement and Simon is having a sandwich, at the shot before Howard reaches the robot bugs' box, the sandwich dish disappears.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Hiep Pham: Simon, we're still waiting for your code. Everyone else has finished. May I remind you that your completion date is non-negotiable? I repeat, non-negotiable.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006)

Soundtrack:

Hun jord

Dada meets Kafka meets Max Headroom

"Paranoia will destroy ya…" wrote the Kinks many years ago. The paranoia in this film…well, you'll have to watch the film yourself to see what happens. Step into a grim, surrealistic world (think Dada does Kafka) where strange, unexplained things are going on. A mysteriously empty box that keeps appearing on the doorstep of Simon (played by Jeremy Sisto, people dying under odd circumstances. Simon's world is dreary, dark, depressing and confusing. It is peopled by others who are as confused and zombie-like as he has become—Trish, the cancer ward nurse (played by Deborah Unger), who uses kinky sex to make herself feel alive after being around so much death, the inventor (played by Udo Keir) of a weird robot head, the peculiar custodian played by Lance Hendricksen. Their souls are being sucked dry by a culture that demands that they perform, conform, consume. The only character with energy in this soulless atmosphere is the Neighbor, a sleazy director of S&M porn games, played by Bruce Payne with his customary intensity and nuance.( Why is he left out of the DVD credits?! His is the most memorable character. I second Brittmatt2005's excellent comments on the message board.).

Though unrelentingly grim, it is worth seeing more than once. This Kafkaesque film is textured, with many levels of meaning woven into the surrealistic package. There are many messages to be extracted---the dangers of amoral corporations out to control and out of control, the deadening effects of a conformist society, questioning of the extreme measures people will go to to feel alive in a dreary world (TV "Reality" shows, anyone?). By the end of the film, the mystery of the box is revealed. It is a trick that is, as Max Headroom once said, only "20 minutes into the future," a science fiction about to turn into science fact. Is this all a metaphor for what is going on now in our culture? See for yourself. This film, unlike the majority of sorry excuses for entertainment out there, will make you think.