The story of a young female serial killer, abandoned, cold and alone on the streets of a fascist Italian city floating in the clouds, looking for her next kill. You experience her slow descent into madness and blood thirsty killing in flashbacks telling the story of her mother's struggle to find market fit for their latest invention: LSD on the end of a stick. Her mother resorts to propositioning the local overzealous OSHA inspector, after he tries to fine and shutdown her business for having no safety railing capable of stopping falls over 4 feet. You will watch as our intrepid young character struggles, and finally cracks, with the burden of accidentally murdering her single parent mother with her shoddy mechanic skills. Faced with the choice of saving her mother, or saving the remaining LSD, her drug addiction makes her choice for her. The film ends as she viciously murders a helpless hobo, after giving him LSD, and dumping his body overboard to fall among the clouds. Her killing and LSD addiction is now the only way she can feel close to her mother, to imagine herself in her arms again. Fade to black.
None of the above was true, It's just the twisted alternate story my mind made up while I was bored watching this thing. This is a pretty old and boring animated short film. This is obviously a passion project for a small group of people, so I feel bad ragging on it too badly. However, In my opinion, it is not really worth the time to watch. Novel at the time it was made, it really is showing it's age, and I just don't think it ever really took advantage of what the VR medium can offer, even at the time it was made.
About 18 minutes long, it hijacked my PSVR2 headset with some sort of external 3D Windows Media device player, with no ability to change the scaling, aliasing, graphics, etc, and no way to get back to steam VR without Keyboard and Mouse. The result is the entire thing is ran at a super low resolution, with no super sampling or anti aliasing present after it is blown up to the high resolution of the OLED display on the PSVR2. It looks terrible, there is no real engagement or wow factor for this being in VR, and the film is kind of schmaltzy, slow, and boring. The intro with the windows/silhouettes is kind of cool, It has nice music and animation, but no voice acting, real characters, or interesting plot to speak of. The entire thing never changes the viewer's camera angle, focal point, beyond your own limited head movement, so it can't frame the scenes and convey emotion, urgency, etc. like a director and editor would do in traditional film media. It just kind plays out like a small diorama in front of you, where you are a hovering, bored, omniscient, presence. If anything it really made me think "is this the boredom god feels when he watches tragedy play out and he is unable to intervene?", so i guess that was something.
I am really surprised it even ran at all.
I think it took me longer to write this, than it did to watch it.
