Virtual Dating

Year: 2009

Director: Katia Olivier

Writer: Katia Olivier

Genre: Sci-Fi

Category: Short

Runtime: 17 min

Country: Belgium

Language: French (w/subtitles)

Color: Color

Company: Uncut Films

A young woman in need of love finds happiness by buying a robot. It fulfils her every fantasy until the day when it becomes uncontrollable and transforms into her worst nightmare...

Synopsis: In our society where sex has become a common consumer good, Christine is a young woman whose sentimental and sexual life is unsatisfying. In a sex toys supermarket, about to buy a vibrator out of spite, she finds 'Prince Charming', an android at women's service controllable by remote control. Romantic, passionate, caring, and totally under her control, Prince Charming turns out to be the ideal man and offers Christine her best love night ever. In the morning however Prince Charming adopts a totally different attitude towards Christine's desires. Completely in opposition to the idea of perfection a woman has of a man, Prince Charming acts as a perfect misogynist, vulgar, aggressive, and unfortunately...uncontrollable. Tension rises, the fighting begins, hatred and murderous impulses burst out till the unavoidable bloodbath. Is there a bug in the machine or is the machine too human?