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Trailer: The Philosophers

A smart apocalyptic thriller that explores what happens when a crazy professor tries to save his own civilization by logically killing each other

Thanks to for pointing out and posting this very interesting trailer that I am now going to steal and post on the front page. As many noted, it looks like a philosophical version of Battle Royale that actually uses brains more than violence. The trailer came out of the Berlin Film Festival where it is being shopped. I'm interested. Let's get it distributed!

Watcherg44on Feb. 7, 2013 at 11:36 a.m.

it almost seems like Lord of the flies, or BioDome. But the Trailers makes it seem more Like the TV show lost.

there another film it seems more like, a prisoner, gaurd movie, i can't think of the name of it.

meaninoflife42on Feb. 7, 2013 at 12:18 p.m.

Quick question, how did the professor get the funding for his project?

DonVitoon Feb. 7, 2013 at 12:59 p.m.

looks like a yet another interesting take on the concepts from The Wave and The Experiment

CherryBombon Feb. 7, 2013 at 2:32 p.m.

You're welcome! Thanks for noticing!

This looks like a really intellectual film with action elements. It's a film where I really do not know what's going to happen but I hope it answers all the questions. Can't wait to see it!

the_refereeon Feb. 7, 2013 at 3:57 p.m.

To me it looks like a WTF, kind of movie, However it's the WTF kind of movie I like!

Axdemonon Feb. 7, 2013 at 5:06 p.m.

Seems to me that the whole film takes place inside the classroom and all of the apocalyptic imagery and scenery is hypothetical and imaginary.

Toastburner_Bon Feb. 7, 2013 at 9:55 p.m.

@Axdemon said:

Seems to me that the whole film takes place inside the classroom and all of the apocalyptic imagery and scenery is hypothetical and imaginary.

Yeah, this isn't my kind of movie, but I'm calling it ending one of two ways:

1) Everyone dies

2) Everyone dies, but it was all a thought experiment.

phoenix87xon Feb. 8, 2013 at 7:28 a.m.

This looks like a film that was tailor made for me.

CherryBombon Feb. 8, 2013 at 7:45 a.m.

I guess I'm really excited for Sophie Lowe!

I think this could be a breakout role for her to get into mainstream Western cinema. If you don't know her, she's basically Australia's own Jennifer Lawrence, in the fact she's their "it girl" , highly acclaimed and incredibly beautiful.

Watcherg44on Feb. 10, 2013 at 11:57 a.m.

@DonVito: YEs the The Experiment, am i glad i'm not the only one to have seen that one. there was a Bones episode kind of like it.

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A philosophy teacher gives his class of twenty students a surprising task; in the event of a nuclear apocalypse, which ten of them would they choose to survive and reboot the population? - it soon turns into a war of survival, where only the best and most intellectual can survive.

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