Your Security
8m · USA
Directed by Elias ZX
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A couple in a trash-filled apartment can only speak to each other in security questions. Beneath the apparent affection sits a creeping interrogation of data, romance scams, and who's really collecting whom.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A whole relationship conducted through security questions — finally someone wrote a love story for the data-broker era. The trash apartment is a real auteur move.
A formal constraint with teeth: every line a security question turns intimacy into a phishing inbox, and the trash-apartment mise-en-scène earns the Lanthimos shorthand. Conceptually load-bearing in a way I respect.
Every line a security question is the kind of formal constraint that either works or dies, and at 8:20 with the trash-apartment staging and 'do you agree with the terms and conditions?' as a love beat, this sounds like Lanthimos turf done lean. I want to see it.
Reviews
It registers as both funny and unsettling... taps into the paranoia of the invading information age.