I love slow burn movies, and non existent funding movies, when their done well.

Whilst this one was almost devoid of funding, it was also devoid of progress.

It took over an hour for anything beyond the most simplistic testing to happen, next to zero exposition in that time as well. Only to switch into warp speed for the last 20 minutes, but it also didn't go too far from the starting line.

Acting wasn't terrible, but many of the choices made by the 2 characters were ridiculous.

Eileen has psychokinesis, I can accept that without issue. SHE accepted it as evidenced in the testing... come to the test of putting a ball in a bucket....... nope we can't do that, BUT we'll remove 16 screws from the tables legs easily enough to no gain, and then move the ball in to the bucket.

Ditto when Roger is being killed in sand, no point trying to use her powers in stopping the flow of sand, or demolishing the cage he's in, go back to brute physical strength, of which she has none, and fail like a moron.

I would love it if just once in these movies the characters would use their psycho/telekinetic powers to rip out an entire wall of their cage and go on a rampage.

A young woman awakens in a stylish prison with no memory except for when she sleeps. Eileen played by Sarah Mitich, sees herself and her daughter in her dreams at a beach singing the same lullaby over and over again. An analog-sounding Alexa-type computer that appears to lack AI has monotone one-way answers to the questions which Sarah Mitich asks.

The computer forces her to complete tasks that become impossible to do without using Sara Mitich's psychokinetic powers, which Sarah learns to control over agony, distress, and fear whilst attempting to achieve the expected result of the test. She's threatened by the dormant Computer with the life of her child.

The cinematography is very good, and Sarah Mitich's acting is very believable. Her husband played by George Tchortov is a bit wooden but he is playing a comatose character.

A creative low budget film misses its marks. If you were to fast-forward Sarah Mitich's dream scenes you wouldn't miss anything. For example, the lullaby repeated often does not tie to anything.

I think that the film is still worth watching. The concept is Interesting.

As a mainly single-location set - that in itself is a challenge for any filmmaker, co-writer and director James Mark actually succeeds in making this work, especially considering this was clearly a low budget endeavor. The cinematography was excellent, the score absolutely spot-on, and the performances - specifically Sara Mitich, was what carried this film and kept me engaged at the start.

But as the first act had me intrigued with the slick imagery and atmosphere, the second act got a little cheesy with plot holes popping out everywhere, and started getting monotonous, then the final act is where it fell flat. Mark was successful in keeping the viewer guessing where this was going next, but as it approached the ending, the little extra action he added wasn't enough to render anything close to a satisfying ending.

Instead, it felt that I invested all that time for nothing, for a lazy convoluted ending that gave me more questions than answers. All the little details throughout were just style and filler and ended up being cliches and tidbits from past sci-fi films for his underwhelming resolution. What was even the point of the lullaby? The clones of George Tchortov's character? And Mitich's slow-mo walk of power when the action started just ended up being cheesy. There clearly was much more creativity needed in the final act of the screenplay.

At best, this felt like a long dragged out season premier for a Black Mirror-like TV series, and that's just a wasted opportunity and my 90 min investment for this film. This may have worked better as a part-one of two short films, because the idea was there, but nothing was substantiated or delivered in the 90 min runtime. It's a generous 6/10 from me.