>>212547260>Tell me more about La BeteIt's a sui generis sci-fi film about a dystopian, sparsely populated society (implied to have come about due to a combo of COVID or something similar along with cratering birthrates) where people voluntarily become NPCs in order to maximize their productivity and eliminate anguish and bad feelings in return for a permanent state of bliss, complacency, and loyalty to the regime. During this process, you reflect on your past lives, relationships, trauma, and deaths while under sedation so the system can calibrate what parts of your brain to neuter.
It's all about a French woman going through this process and deeply conflicted about losing her humanity as she reflects on her past lives, specifically one as a Belle Epoque debutante who is the daughter of a welthy doll manufacturer and another where she's a burned out hypergamous party girl trying out to be a model in mid-2010s Los Angeles. Particularly, she keeps experiencing star-crossed love with this one guy she bumps into on her way to the treatment facility (who in the one reality where she's a model he's a literal Elliot Rodger type deeply torn between trying to start something real with her or kill her, while she wants to try something with him given her life is meaningless and she's numb to sex and drugs).
It's a fantastic, very unique film that I can't recommend enough, given I'd argue it's the first movie to really seriously tackle a lot of the serious , existential issues related to the sexes and their current relationships to each other, as well as how government policy and science factor into the equation to pave the road to a dystopian hellscape. Probably the first 10/10 sci-fi kino of the decade so far.