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Mystery Thriller ‘Moresnet,’ Canneseries Competition Entry, Explores What It Means to Be Human, Director and Writer Explain
Mystery thriller 'Moresnet' is set in a sleepy village in Belgium, Moresnet, but underneath the placid surface dark forces lurk.
Their quest leads to Thalamus, a German neuro-technology multinational, owned by the brilliant Nobel Prize winner Robert Rolin and his successor and granddaughter, Eva. Van Passel explains that there are multiple undercurrents at work in the story, one of which is the clash between two philosophies: one believing in the malleability of life, and the other the inevitability of fate. “In the preparation of the series, we were reading Israeli philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s books about ‘Homo Deus,’ where he was explaining that there are people in the world who are so extremely rich that they already have the possibility to become 150 years old, just by deploying bionics – like in ‘The Six Billion Man’ – changing the parts of their bodies.
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