Film Debut Features Android Daughter And Her “Pedophile” Dad…

Underage Robotic Provocation in 'The Trouble With Being Born'

'The Trouble With Being Born' the movie

The movie The Trouble With Being Born, could well end up being the most daring — not to mention divisive — film in a festival not known for holding back on provocation.

The film  begins gently, with a young girl lazing by a pool under the summer sun, discussing memories of her mother with her loving father. But as the scenes unravel it becomes clear that all is not as innocent as it first seemed.

With the child actress all covered up with silicone and wig, the child — Elli — is an android, her memories programmed. And it doesn’t take long to realize that there’s something else to her relationship with this very human, very middle-aged man she calls “Daddy.”

Much of the nocturnal activity is only implied, but there are moments where there’s absolutely no doubt as to the rather envelope-pushing direction the film is taking.  We have an android 10 year old girl whose only desires are the ones you program it to have,  a perspective of the world this machine does not judge and does not care, and doesn’t need the meanings that we do.

Making such a film didn’t come without its difficulties, not least around the central role, played by the 10-year-old Lena Watson “We had really honest talks with the family, who were there during the shoot. It was very open, very transparent. And of course we talked to Watson about the film in a very child-appropriate way.” I wonder how you do that?

Let us move to the real world marketplace of silicone sex-robots. 

No longer the blow-up dolls, no sir. The realism is stunning, with a choice of head and pubic hair, face, body-shape, boob size, and genital shape. Some can have a conversation with facial expressions. These sex-dolls can be ordered on-line from a number of providers. In Europe one can hire a sex-doll at a brothel in spite of protests from real-in-the-flesh prostitutes.

What is disturbing, however, is that one can order silicone sex dolls in the shape of teen and pre-teen boys and girls.

So what is next? It is a short step to normalizing real pedophilia.