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9:03 | 4.3 | 50,065 plays | 8/16/07

Director: Phillip Van | Germany

A wife decides to hit the kill switch on her loveless marriage.

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81 Comments | 94% | 6%
 

jornalero5/11/08

SOY JORNALERO,___________________ _____________________________ ______________NI DE CHISTE DEJAN SUS PENDEJADAS TODO LO QUIEREN MANEJAR CON UN SUYTCH HASTA LAS PINCHES BIEJAS LAS QUIERN MOBER PERO CON ESTAS SE LA PELAN LAS GRING

 
 

Publio5/9/08

Great!

 
 

Tamerair4/30/08

awesome movie, professional acting

 
 

California4204/28/08

It felt pretty deep at some points, made me think how cold people realy are.

 
 

FleetAdmiral17014/19/08

very good acting,never thought she was a robot too,

 
 

syd2qt2bstr83/9/08

Very clever - nice twists

 
 

WinstonTheWolf3/1/08

Great short. Very intriguing from start to finish.

 
 

micph2/28/08

Very good movie ;)

 
 

ksz42/25/08

haha, awesome. Kinda depressing though...

 
 

fritske992/16/08

dammm... great movie.

 
 

Ironmanhoorah2/7/08

Cute!!

 
 

cosmocoala1/28/08

She needs to overpower him; and take advantage of that sexy body!

 
 

mkincaid19851/23/08

nice, kinda sad tho.

 
 

tylerprattis1/20/08

Very interesting! I dig the final ending!

 
 

Blulady1/14/08

Great Film really.

 
 

REKStudios1/10/08

This was a nice little piece. I Enjoyed the twists.

 
 

zeinul1/6/08

that's great!

 
 

handysmurf1012/3/07

nice work. great fundamentals, good writing, good acting. overall it was not the best, but satisfying.

 
 

imagineclever11/26/07

***Very Good! Well made....One of the Best Short-Films i've ever watched. (And I've watched many.:)

 
 

chiragparekh7611/24/07

your films are very sucessful

 
 

No1*****11/20/07

cuh-RAZYYYYY!!!!! extremely interesting, held my attetion the whole time.

 
 

rdding4611/19/07

I guess she got what she deserved!

 
 

chris24g11/16/07

X-L-ent!!

 
 

Jonbouy10/19/07

Great! So creative, interesting, new.

 
 

casticom10/8/07

Great film. Perfect length. False people. Bad relationships. Maniacal robots. Human apocalypse.

 
 

traceytotheplacey10/6/07

Why are robots so damn sexy??? I want one NOW I know what I'd design mine to do but it's not for this message board...

 
 

ROBERTSONTR10/6/07

Brilliant Idea. Brilliant execution. Unqualified opinions blow. Eat it haters.

 
 

tedeb5010/5/07

Great! No "sub-titles", for a German film. What they need is an "ON" switch, instead of an Off.

 
 

d_campbel67*****hotmail*****10/4/07

Clever movie. A bit long though. Maybe she should have served a vegetable other than asparagus.

 
 

bijames0290410/3/07

that was pretty cool

 
 

jenrayray10/1/07

talk about wish fufillment.

 
 

scottyabab9/30/07

WHOA.

 
 

suzieq129/30/07

I never saw that coming. Even I did, they story wasn't only about the twist. There's clearly a lot of depth and meaning to this film. I was really into it.

 
 

Linnysdedicate9/28/07

i have to say i already knew she had a switch so umm yeah anyways good acting.

 
 

Linnysdedicate9/28/07

i have to say i already knew she had a switch so umm yeah anyways good acting.

 
 

delve879/27/07

wow...i need to go have a cigarette. made my day

 
 

Lidia0989/27/07

wierd

 
 

tallywoman9/26/07

Wicked twist. It actually makes sense.Behave like a robot and you might be one. Really got me thinking.

 
 

doggienate9/26/07

...BLOWN AWAY.I've never seen a film that took me from the drudgery of an unloving relationship to literally wondering if there was any humanity left in under ten minutes.AMAZING WORK.

 
 

emmamme9/26/07

Columbo had robots? I figured out that Bruce Willis was actually dead in the 6th sense 10 seconds before the reveal. But it was too late! It had me! I would say the same to you cooljinx.This reveal was VERY VERY GOOD.

 
 

cooljinx9/22/07

When the replacement started to massage her, I had a feeling he would switch her off. I've seen enough Columbo to see right through, it but it was still fun to watch :)

 
 

purplesanny9/17/07

great..... speacial story board..

 
 

forseen777ore9/10/07

I was thinking she was as empty as the robot, without love or endless amounts of drugs. I guess in her there case without the proper program. The way things are going we wont have happieness without a good program and then we will be as much of a slave as the machine was to us. I guess it is like many rich people say "The human is the most efficant machine."

 
 

Slop9/9/07

Smart, witty, and subtley humorous.

 
 

gerrywhite9/8/07

Nice switch at the end... Good job, gang!

 
 

faryana9/4/07

Thats cool...like our life??? I think ...Yes! This's best short ...I like it...and I feel it....hihi

 
 

DJ_Riverghost8/31/07

One of the best shorts I've seen in a long time

 
 

dasboot9998/29/07

Excellent!about our life... :)))

 
 

nachiwa8/29/07

Good work. like its photography...and theme

 
 

mainnmann8/28/07

ha cool twist, talk about being turned on and off.... at the flick of a switch??

 
 

brndox8/28/07

finally someone shut that ***** up. it seems women robots arent satisfiable just like the real thing, interesting. all we can do is shut them off and send them to the kitchen.

 
 

Ultrapower50008/26/07

This film was better titled, "Cyborg Marriage," for there was everything but human interface for this creative short.

 
 

stone90008/25/07

Didnt expect her to have a switch, but I guess some other people are soooo smart that they knew it before it happened.

 
 

reelopus8/25/07

nice twist at the ending. appaerently robo love isn't all that stimulating.

 
 

rbrow118/24/07

Way cool!!

 
 

alex1588888/23/07

good......very good......very very good........very very very good

 
 

chandra078/23/07

Very Intresting!

 
 

mikepalomino*****yahoo*****8/22/07

Fantastic, poignent and well made. I really enjoyed this film and the message that it expresses. Excellent work!

 
 

HeuteKunst8/22/07

Excellently crafted film. Great acting. Loved the story even though I was a bit disappointed with the ending. Kind of makes it as if a struggle between the sexes and placing man above woman. The delivery women kind of led me to thinking this was some sort of woman led society until, as it turned out, the main female character had a switch too. Over all, well done. Bravo!!!

 
 

tpijin8/22/07

AWESOME! What a great anology for how we often thoughtlessly use each other. Well acted/directed/produced.

 
 

boyleex0x8/22/07

i love this viedo

 
 

VitaMorta18/22/07

well directed. good job

 
 

999zorbathegeek9998/22/07

the end was somewhat expected, but overall well done

 
 

don_shepherd8/22/07

Great short, really enjoyed it, I didn't foresee the end

 
 

MikeNC8/22/07

that was an excellent film, though it was kind of predictable.

 
 

iromek8/22/07

Excellent short film... good script, good plot, good acting. :-)

 
 

Naoma8/22/07

The ending was a surprise to me. She got what she deserved. She was no "prize" herself!

 
 

Robertglass8/21/07

This was a very good short film. The photography is excellent, the plot is concise and enetresting.

 
 

Oquedo8/20/07

Great Acting. Nice One!

 
 

Lisummer218/20/07

Amazing! The acting is superb and you never see the ending coming. It's definitely one to watch!

 
 

Daveke8/20/07

cool !

 
 

Bill_Walker8/19/07

good surprise

 
 

Sathen8/18/07

Very enjoyable. Acting, filming and editing were superb. Didn't see the ending coming until he was working on her shoulders but at that point it was still a pleasent suprise.

 
 

spongebob121638/18/07

YUR57U57IURUI

 
 

djonpow8/17/07

My first reaction was " Oh here we go with the whole up with women down with men" message alot of films seem to have these days as their message, but then the ending was most satisfying!

 
 

2313268/16/07

Very professionally staged, blocked and edited. This looked like a seed for a movie script.Seed films are shorts meant to allow investors a visual concept of a producer's story idea for a major motion picture.Image, and entire world devoid of humas, but their android replacements, trying to fill the gap. It's very Issac Azimov!

 
 

Alisia258/16/07

wow thank u for that . it open my mind to what really goes on in some man and women

 
 

imagine6868688/16/07

great story,,,,, did guess the ending, but only after he started working on her sholders. Good ..... original... 4 stars.

 
 

sunflower14928/16/07

Very-Very-Very Good; the ending was a complete surprise and quite acceptable to we men,,, :-)

 
 

damok8/16/07

I love it! Great Story, and I have to say, I wasn't expecting the ending!

 
 

lrayek8/16/07

Wow, just wow.

 

Info and Credits

Film Credits

Director: Phillip Van

Producer: Cordula Kablitz-Post
Writer: Simon Biggs
Cast: Nicolette Krebitz, Wanja Mues, Judith Rohde, Anna Schenk-Rollmann

 

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