Bionic
Koren Shadmi
Top Shelf Productions, 2020
Bionic opens with a moody, wordless sequence of a bleak futuristic robotics plant. Then it shifts to a scene of geeky teenager Victor getting ready for his first day of the new year at high school. Despite being an outsider, bullied by the BMOCs, he develops a crush on his beautiful classmate Patricia. All the makings of a standard young adult coming of age story, but things immediately take a strange turn when Patricia offers him a bionically enhanced cat for adoption (she can't tell him where it came from). After being hit by a car Patricia returns to school with similar bionic adaptations, replacing her left arm, leg and part of her face and head. Her father runs the Venn Industries robotics factory, and in addition to having to learn how to operate her new body, she blames him for turning her into a living science experiment. Her behavior becomes increasingly erratic, but Victor continues to support her--leading right up to a life-altering conclusion.
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