A million in one
With a pump worthy of the greatest technological visionaries, we present the latest technology miracle – B-bot! The novelty is not just anything, because while it may look like a lighted egg, it is in fact the best friend you can imagine. Once connected to the network, this inconspicuous device will learn absolutely everything about you – and based on posts, likes, search terms and other virtual traces, it will suggest establishing contacts with users with similar interests. The possibilities of the little robot seem to be limitless – it is a dozen or so devices in one, replacing a telephone, computer, console, camera and many, many others. So it’s no surprise that the machines descend like hot cakes – everyone wants one!
Everyone is crazy about the new gadget, also at Barney Pudowski’s school. The boy is celebrating his next birthday, but it is not related to the fete that we can imagine on the basis of American reality shows . The quiet, shy, withdrawn young man spends them alone, ashamed to invite his more popular friends to his family home, where he lives modestly with his grandmother and his father who sells bizarre toys – immigrants from the post-Soviet part of Eastern Europe. A loving parent manages, though not without adventures, to give his son the desired B-bot – it turns out, however, that the copy obtained “under the counter” is not fully functional …
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One in a million
It’s hard to believe that Ron’s Gone Wrong is Locksmith Studio’s first production. It is also only the second full-length film by Sara Smith – co-founder of the studio, as well as co-director (with Jean-Philipp Vine) and co-writer (with Peter Baynham) of the animation (after Artur Saves Gwiazdka from 2011). The difficult art succeeds: the film does not fool the young viewer, and the older one does not get bored. This is largely due to a well-written script. There is room for both simple slapstick in historyas well as small emotions. The source of humor is primarily the title Ron and his fault, through which he communicates with the world in a chaotic manner, and he must learn his owner / human friend in a … antediluvian way. They play primarily with situational jokes resulting from dealing with defective technology – universal and life jokes; After all, which of us, as befits a home-grown specialist, did not try to repair all electronics with the immortal “turn off and on” method or cursed under his breath over a website that was loading for too long …
Under the guise of unforced humor, there is a warm story about maturing in the modern world and the search for a bond in reality, which seems to be less and less rooted in the so-called real world, more and more – in search of applause and adoration among anonymous users of the (Bubble) network. These are still very valuable observations, especially since the creators avoid taking a radical position, correctly identifying and criticizing the dominant discourse for it, ordering an arbitrary condemnation of non-social mechanisms of exclusion (including technological exclusion), but only tools which in themselves are devoid of intentions. . We hear a lot today about demonic algorithms, the threat of cybernetic end of the world and the irreversible breakdown of interpersonal ties; therefore the voice is refreshing,
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Without a box!
It is quite pleasant to look at the picturesque setting and interesting character designs. Animators and graphic designers did not try to use photorealism – Ron’s Gone Wrong‘s style maintains a healthy compromise between the cartoon conventionality of the characters and a slightly more grounded composition in reality. The translation of dialogues and dubbing are also at a high level. In the Polish language version (the only one available in cinemas) we will hear the voices of, among others Jakub Strach as Barney Pudowski and Waldemar Barwiński as Ron’s B-bot, as well as Przemysław Glapiński, Małgorzata Rożniatowska, Marcin Franc and Dominika Domitrz.
“Today nobody repairs anything, today damaged items are replaced with new ones,” explains Barney at one point to her grandmother. There is a sad metaphor in this sentence of contemporary interpersonal, shallow and superficial contacts. If you only have one lesson to learn from Ron’s Gone Wrong, let it be this: give this strange kid in the corner a chance. Even if he doesn’t like the same things you like *.
* Well, unless it’s the Last Tavern. Then it is worth considering twice.
