| Paranoia 1.0 (One Point O) |
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| Directed by | Jeff Renfroe Marteinn Thorsson |
| Produced by | Chris Sievernich R.D. Robb Kyle Gates Thomas Mai |
| Written by | Jeff Renfroe Marteinn Thorsson |
| Starring | Jeremy Sisto Deborah Kara Unger Bruce Payne |
| Music by | Terry Huud |
| Cinematography | Christopher Soos |
| Editing by | Daniel Sadler Troy Takaki |
| Distributed by | Armada Pictures International |
| Release date(s) | January 2004 (Sundance) |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States Romania Iceland |
| Language | English |
Paranoia: 1.0 (originally One Point O, also known as 1.0, One Point Zero, Version 1.0, and Virus 1.0) is a 2004 cyberpunk science fiction film written and directed by Jeff Renfroe and Marteinn Thorsson. The film is a Kafkaesque nightmare in which a young computer programmer is an unwitting guinea pig in a corporate experiment to test a new advertising scheme.[1] The film stars Jeremy Sisto and Deborah Unger and features Lance Henriksen, Eugene Byrd, Bruce Payne and Udo Kier.
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When computer-programmer Simon J. (Jeremy Sisto) begins finding empty plain brown paper packages in his apartment, he goes to great length to try and secure his boundaries, but the packages keep appearing. Simon attempts to find out who is leaving the packages, and his investigation exposes him to his eccentric neighbors, an artificial intelligence robot head, a virtual reality sex-game, and the possibility of a corporate conspiracy. With security cameras watching him constantly, Simon begins to lose his grip on reality, and develops an inexplicable craving for Nature Fresh brand milk.[1] Then murders start happening in the building. Simon eventually finds out that everyone else is receiving packages too but were keeping quiet. These people also got addicted to consuming other products like fresh juice and farm fresh meat. The courier-man friend tells Simon about a corporate experiment to ‘infuse’ Nanomites in to people's brains to make them addicted to certain products. He first dismisses it as a lie but eventually understands that's indeed what's happening.
Paranoia 1.0 was an international co-production, and was shot entirely in Bucharest, Romania. It premiered in competition at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival under its original title (One Point O).
The programming code seen in the film is from Viralator 0.9.[2]
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