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The Trouble with Being Born

  • 20202020
  • 1h 34m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
1K
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The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
  • Drama
  • Mystery
  • Sci-Fi
Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
1K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Sandra Wollner
  • Writers
    • Roderick Warich
    • Sandra Wollner
  • Stars
    • Lena Watson
    • Dominik Warta
    • Ingrid Burkhard
Top credits
  • Director
    • Sandra Wollner
  • Writers
    • Roderick Warich
    • Sandra Wollner
  • Stars
    • Lena Watson
    • Dominik Warta
    • Ingrid Burkhard
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    • 6User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 19 wins & 13 nominations

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    Lena Watson
    • Ellias Elli…
    Dominik Warta
    • Georgas Georg
    Ingrid Burkhard
    Ingrid Burkhard
    • Frau Schikowaas Frau Schikowa
    Jana McKinnon
    Jana McKinnon
    • Ellias Elli
    Simon Hatzl
    Simon Hatzl
    • Tonias Toni
    Susanne Gschwendtner
    • Birgitas Birgit
    Nikolai Klinkosch
      Ilvy Steinbach
        Masoud Tosifyan
        • Director
          • Sandra Wollner
        • Writers
          • Roderick Warich
          • Sandra Wollner
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        • Trivia
          The Melbourne International Film Festival decided to not screen the film at its 2020 festival, citing concerns raised by two forensic psychologists that it might "[normalise] sexual interest in children" and be "used as a source of arousal for men interested in child abuse material." The decision to remove the film from the festival line-up was denounced by film critics Peter Krausz, Tom Ryan and David Stratton, declaring it was artistic censorship.
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        User reviews6

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        3/10
        A Film Ashamed Of Itself
        Too timid to say what it wants to say. Too artless to be artful. Diffuse and half-formed concepts. It wants to be child pornography, but is afraid to say so. It hides its true feelings by trying to be artsy and conceptual, but gets bogged down between the lie and the truth. It fails as art. It fails as child pornography. It fails as propaganda.

        Who is "papa" and why does he have an android daughter? Was there ever a real daughter? And where is "mum"? If he had a real daughter who died and replaced her with this android, why didn't he replace "mum" too? Since he's sexually involved with the child android, are we to assume he was sexually involved with his real daughter if she rever existed? Or is "papa" just some rich pervert who bought a child android? Why can't she remember certain things one moment, but then later remembers them. Are these actual memories, or just "realism" artifacts papa implants in her to enhance the feeling that he's having a loving, sexual relationship with a real daughter? Because we know that's what this movie us trying to sell: The concept that parents can indulge their sexual fantasies with their children in a healthy, loving way.

        I think others that have reviewed this movie assume Elli is a replacement daughter for an organic daughter who died. I disagree. Papa is just a broken, single man with an obsession fornaked little girls. In one scene, we see him remove Elli's tongue and vagina in the morning (after a night spent together all night that "mum never would have allowed but doesn't need to know about") and wash them in the kitchen sink.

        Why try to hide this message behind artifice and half-hearted artsy-fartsy bulls**t? If you really feel your deviance is nothing to be ashamed of, why then do you seem so ashamed of it? And if you're that ashamed, why air it out in the open? Just go hide in a dark closet with your pedophilia fetish and stop trying to convince us and yourself it's nothing to be ashamed of. You're embarrassing yourself.
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        • Jaymz13
        • Feb 20, 2022

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        • Release date
          • July 1, 2021 (Germany)
        • Countries of origin
          • Austria
          • Germany
        • Language
          • German
        • Also known as
          • Тягар бути народженим
        • Filming locations
          • Austria
        • Production companies
          • Das Kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF)
          • Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
          • Panama Film
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          • $13,748
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 34 minutes
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        • Aspect ratio
          • 1.37 : 1

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