112 - Advantageous

    In the future, a woman struggles to make opportunity available to her daughter, partly by agreeing to participate in a new procedure, involving moving her consciousness into a new body.
    The is a very low-key, artful, and very interesting sci-fi movie.  It’s cheap, but it hides the budget well.  There are effects shots as needed, and the absence of extras just adds to the feeling of something we don’t quite understand about the future.
    There’s quiet, subtle world-building going on.  There are a lot of details we need to infer from the dialogue.
    The creepiest thing about the movie is that it portrays a pretty realistic scenario.  We are heading toward an existence where jobs - or at least, gainful jobs - will be scarce.  Especially in the US, we are stubborn about the idea of spreading job availability around.  The result is that we wind up with these jobs where even the lowest-skill jobs are going to be filled with wildly over-qualified people.
    While I can’t identify with one of the central relationships - the mother and her daughter - I can identify with the despair that is explored.
    Another really fascinating thing about this is the plethora of female characters.  There are very few male characters.  Most of the primary and secondary characters are female, and even the supporting parts.