LFO premiered on Septemat the Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin. Izabella Jo Tschig, Antonio Tublén and Patrik Karlson at Fantastic Fest, 2013 At first, he forces through sweeping changes to society, but his message becomes increasingly pessimistic and antihumanist until he commands the entire human race to commit mass suicide. Robert practices learning various foreign languages, and a series of voice-overs report that he has attained increasingly more prestigious positions in society, ultimately rising to the position of ruler of a unified Earth. Intrigued by their protestations that he should not play God, Robert asks them to define God.Īrmed with their conception of a benevolent deity, Robert hypnotizes himself to emulate those qualities. Robert then asks Simon and Linn for advice, and they describe their vision of a utopian society. He first compels Simon and Linn to form a rock band with him, but he abandons that idea when their songs turn out amateurish. Frustrated with both the state of the world and his inability to be left in peace, Robert decides to broaden his experiment. Robert hypnotizes Sinus-San and a representative of the car manufacturer, but the case against him continues. Sinus-San, who has been investigating Robert, threatens to go to the police unless Robert shares his invention. Over time, the car manufacturer and police become interested in Robert's involvement in the deaths of his wife and son. Clara urges him to find a more meaningful life. When he tires of this, he again releases them from his control and amuses himself with mean-spirited pranks on his other neighbors. Robert again forces Linn to have sex with him, and he forces Simon to passively watch as punishment for cheating on her. When Linn accidentally discovers through the security device that Simon has been cheating on her, Robert hypnotizes them into accepting him as their marriage counselor. Unsatisfied with his fake family, he releases Simon and Linn, though he monitors their life using security devices. Robert panics and hypnotizes the police into leaving his house. Instead, he forces Simon and Linn to take the place of his dead family members.Īfter several weeks of servitude at his house, his neighbors are reported missing, and the police show up at Robert's house to ask him if he has seen them. Clara chides him to take his antipsychotic medicine, pointing out that she is a hallucination, but Robert refuses. Eventually, it is revealed that Clara and his son, Sebastian, died when Robert sabotaged the family car. When Clara calls him pathetic, he defends his actions as being necessary to test the extent of his control. He orders Simon to perform menial tasks and Linn to have sex with him. However, when Robert returns, he plays a hypnotic frequency that compels them to obey his commands. Uncomfortable with the awkwardness of the conversation, Simon tells Clara that he intends to leave. Before he leaves to get the coffee, he casually mentions that his family was killed in a car crash. When Simon and Linn move next door to him, he resolves to experiment on them over the objections of his wife. With the help of Sinus-San, one of his friends from the Internet, he makes a breakthrough, though he hides the extent of his success. He proposes that a certain frequency could act as the opposite of this allergy and give him the peace that he desires. There, over the Internet, he discusses with several of his friends his belief that he has what he calls a "sound allergy" to the music that his wife enjoys. After he has an argument with his wife Clara, whom he suspects is cheating on him, he returns to the basement again, to her annoyance. Robert Nord, an awkward man, spends most of his time playing with his synthesizers in his basement. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake. LFO is a 2013 Swedish science fiction film directed and written by Antonio Tublén about a man who realizes that he can hypnotize with sound.
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