Matthew's Journal

Intrigued by a pair of enthusiastic reviews in the Graun, I watched this online. It's an eerie near-future scifi horror, where the protagonist (Tasya Vos) is someone who is projected into the mind of other people to take over their bodies to perform assassinations. The work is not without its risks, though, and Vos is somewhat estranged from her family and also starting to perform erratically at her job.

So much of what is going on is either seeing Voss' estrangement from herself and her family or seeing how the people she takes over behaving just a little off-kilter because they are quite literally not themselves. And of course the consciousness of one of the targets starts fighting back...

Also of note is the firm which has staff spying on people through their laptop cameras in order to evaluate their home decor(!) and lifestyle, implicitly so they can be more effectively targeted by advertising.

This is a tense and claustrophobic film, with a not inconsiderable quantity of gory violence, and I'm not sure the plot quite stands up to scrutiny in a couple of places (jvgu fb zhpu grpu, fheryl gurl fubhyq xabj jurer Ibff'f gnetrg vf ng nyy gvzrf?), but it's a pretty effective piece of cinema; I should try and remember to nominate it for the Hugos next year...