In the distant future, humanity has been forced to move to another galaxy, leaving Earth behind. Members of an exploration team are sent to search for a suitable planet for terraforming. A system malfunction causes one of the crew members, Lewis, to emerge in a distorted state after being created through a biological 3D printer.
When Lewis begins attacking his crewmates Nina, Mack, Patty and Oscar, he begins a countdown to the end of the mission in the terrifying darkness of the ship. Exception begins streaming on Netflix starting October 13, 2022. Nolan North stars as Lewis with Ali Hillis as Nina, Eugene Byrd as Oscar. Robbie Daymond, Nadine Nicole also lend their voices. Yuzo Sato is directing the series with a story by Hirotaka Adachi.
The four women in question are at the center of a story that revolves around the concept of evil, with all its ramifications and extensions. Dotted with photographs and literary quotes that remind us of historical genocides and macabre acts, the film takes place in a political context. Specifically, it focuses on a center in Copenhagen that investigates crimes against humanity and human rights. But, in the vein of a relentless virus, this evil that our heroines try to analyze actually ends up infecting them, the very women who are supposed to fight against the sadists responsible for all the pain caused to others.
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All it takes is a threatening, anonymous message to awaken the ghosts of the past, reopen old wounds, and relive long-standing traumas. Fear knows no bounds and ultimately transforms these women, making them wary of anyone who enters their workspace. In the end, the evil deeds they fight become incredibly monotonous, almost normalized. Because evil is contagious, to say the least.
Consequently, The Exception becomes a film charged with paranoia and conspiracy undertones, a work infused with stylized cinematography that begins by raising questions about violent acts and ends by asserting that human behavior, in all its complexity, does not follow a fixed mathematical formula. . Its forceful actors demonstrate this, and the four main actresses contribute their very important psychological nuances to the work, resulting in a story full of tension, but which succumbs, from time to time, to the temptation of shocking the viewer, quite an effect. unnecessary in this case.