CONTROL – a film by James Mark – SPOILERS
On a sunny afternoon, a five-year-old girl (Evie Loiselle) sits in the sand by the sea and sings “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” A woman appears, and the scene is intercut with snippets of gunfire and men in black. “Increment and initialize, Phase One Commencing” a female voice says, and Eileen (Sara Mitich) wakes up. The disembodied voice tells her: “Move the pencil. Complete this task within the allotted time.” Unable to get more information from the voice, she decides to move the pencil, which is across the room on a table, but has difficulty using her legs, as though walking is something she hadn’t done in a while. Once the pencil is moved, Eileen is rendered unconscious, and she dreams.
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