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Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-03-20
Duration: 86 min

2021 · 1h 26m · Documentary

Skip it. While the concept of an alien perspective on human meaning-seeking has potential, the execution sounds pretentious and muddled—mixing philosophical wandering with vague emotional tourism across Europe. Without critical backing or a clear narrative hook, this experimental doc feels more self-indulgent than enlightening.

Plot

The question of meaning seems to occupy humanity since the beginning of time and the attempts to find an answer are as diverse as the human beings themselves. But what happens when one tries to examine that question from a non-human perspective? Filmmakers Bedekovic/Grunsky attempt this experiment by sending the alter ego X on a journey through Europe, before the outbreak of COVID-19. Although X observes the human world in a pure analytic way, she is offered quite emotional thoughts from the terrestrials.

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