About a Hero

The film begins with a quote by German filmmaker Werner Herzog: “a computer will not make a film as good as mine in 4,500 years,” Director Piotr, perhaps deliberately choosing an artist who stands in stark contrast to AI technologies, fed Herzog’s screenplays into an AI system, and completed the film based on a scenario generated by the AI. Set in a fictional German city, the film revolves around the mysterious death of a character named Clery. It adopts a documentary style led by a narrator reminiscent of Herzog himself. As the story traces the investigation into Clery’s death, the emotional reactions of those around her symbolically highlight the gap between human complexity and technological reproduction.