"True Skin"

I am a great fan of style. Style will take you sometimes, to places that not even science can.

There is a tremendous short movie out called “True Skin,” written and directed by Stephan Zlotescu of N1ON Productions, an independent movie-maker that usually specializes in music videos. If you haven't seen it yet it's worth taking a look at.

"True Skin" - beautifully made sci-fi movie short.

Warner Inc. currently have the project in development as a full length feature and one never knows where they'll eventually take the basic story idea, which is as derivative as it also is classical too in the category of sci-fi. On the one hand the whole film short is something like a re-visualisation of Blade Runner, but really, the value of the effort lies in the stylishness of the creative visualisation itself – which is distinctly different from what Blade Runner was.

For one thing there is a certain up-to-the-minute reality about “True Skin,” when it comes to the technology of augmented humans. And there is a real moral tale going there about the seeming spiritual tragedies of 'mere' natural humans when they cannot overcome economic dire straits.

The emotionless expression on the face of the main character hides many conflicting and deep-as-the abyss feelings, and, as someone who has a level 3 (worst kind there is) autistic son, there is a perspective that I have about the ideas in the movie short that we have been able to see thus far: with the amazing computer-device interfaced capabilities of autistic people, it seems to me that autism is almost some kind of advancement that has exploded across the modern world exactly at the same time that highly portable, very advanced digital systems that augment the basic human sense channels and increase the rates and pathways and simultaneous access to data and sensory input.

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I know that my son has amazingly deep emotions for a seven year old, much more mature and perceptive and balanced than you would ever suspect a seven year old should be able to intellectually process – but he can. Yet, if you go simply by the facial demeanour, you never could tell any of the signs of these things. All the same, it's almost as if these people (autistic people) quickly come to the conclusion that most 'normal' people are emotionally dumb, emotionally disabled if you like, and they refrain from even trying to communicate with people whose emotional sensitivities are simplistic...

There is a sadness on the face of the lead character in the movie short; at least it seems that way to me.

A sad, tragic future for humans?

I asked my son after watching the film what he thought the character was feeling at the scene toward the end (where I thought he was tremendously sad), and he said, 'he's paralysed by the uncertainty of limitless joy.'

Can you see the future, my friends? It doesn't have the people we have been used to, in it.