NE CROYEZ PAS AU PÈRE NOËL

2067–2020

A very strange film that mixes adventure, mostly cosmic and mostly special effects, which is effective in many ways, and science-fiction about first, the destruction of the planet by the humans who inhabit it. That’s the fate of this planet if it does not get a solution that brings, all negative pollution meters down. If humans don’t do it, then the planet will do it. No more oxygen, then die of asphyxiation. No more clean water, no more natural plants, vegetables, and fruits. Only synthetic food and no free-access sufficiency. They will die of hunger and thirst, and what’s more, of diseases that will prosper in this ugly situation.

We start at the very end of this period, just before the final lap on the racetrack to perdition. The main scientist is the father of a younger man who he has chosen to be thrown into the future to check how the earth recuperated from the apocalypse of the humans who eventually all die. So, he is sent away by teleportation into a distant future. And it all becomes tricky because he lands in a thick jungle that has grown on top of the scientific center that contained the teleportation station. But he finds himself confronted with his own skeleton, meaning he had been sent a first time before he had died, shot dead with a bullet in his skull. He has been sent a second time later and is now alive in front of his dead skeleton. Don’t tell me this sounds bizarre. It is profoundly strange and that’s all they want to produce.

Then his friend, brother, or whatever man he knows and is more or less intimate with arrives, teleported from the apocalyptic end of the human species. By using the pocket universal communication devices, his own, and the one of his skeleton, he can access a recording of the death of the skeleton: he is shot by his friend who just arrived, hence the dead skeleton tells him what is going to happen to him who is still alive. Then we enter the delirium tremens of an apocalypse that tries to convince us it ends perfectly well.

Of course, it is not a real story but a metaphor, an allegory done for people who are used to video or computer games. The logic of the storyline is not important. What is important, is the details, peripetia, the violence, the emotional shock and betrayal of a father killing a son, or a son having to kill a father.