Production: Maciej Kowalczyk
Author, producer & director: Maciej Kowalczyk
Music and Sound: Krzysztof Pikuła
Cast: Maciej Kowalczyk, Natalia Dudziak
Synopsis:
“The One” is an anti-utopian drama with a touch of love story and an unexpected plot twist.
A mysterious lighthouse amidst a sea of ruins. A refuge stripped of reality. Frightened like terrified wild animals, the survivors must reconnect with a group operating within a pre-established harmony. Something authentic is needed, and an unexpected encounter awaits. Will Kai and Ren choose a safe haven? Who built this place, and who illuminates it all? Can we help ourselves by rejecting the help of others?
Our world is a distorted reality, a kind of collective psychosis that not only consumes the characters but also serves as a testament to the times they live in. Uncertainty, danger, death, hunger, destruction, and, on the other hand, the promise of safety, peace, and harmony in the form of exceptional care. With such a dissonance of reality, it's difficult to accept anything certain. Everything is confused, and the collective madness of well-being creates a caricature of normality.
We can only precisely define The One by what it is not. It is a perfect place, a matrix, a place from which all else emanates. The One might recall the theory of emanation by the ancient philosopher Plotinus. In short, The One is the beginning from which everything emanates, flows, a multiplied perspective of the core, a series of entities that create all of reality. Perhaps the ruins are our source? More or less, we all come from ruins and eagerly return to them. Locus amoenus leads to locus horridus and vice versa. Terrible and happy places exist side by side, in close proximity, simultaneously.
