Reroll is a speculative fiction film that explores the struggle for autonomy and perception in an increasingly deterministic digital landscape. The film follows an individual whose daily decisions are governed by a digital dice. Throughout the film, the protagonist's reality is disoriented by the infiltration of digital elements. As the day progresses, he becomes increasingly aware of his lack of freedom and attempts to break free by rerolling the dice, only to face the chilling revelation that the dice's results are predetermined.
The story features two key elements: the dice and the horse token. In Reroll, the dice functions as a game that makes all the daily decisions. Unlike a traditional one, this dice generates its result only after it is thrown. This seemingly insignificant detail foreshadows the revelation at the end of the film: the dice's outcome is not random but is predetermined by a hidden algorithm that dictates the protagonist's every move. The horse token on the game board, on the other hand, represents the protagonist himself. By the film's end, the horse token breaks free from the game, symbolizing the protagonist's desire to escape the deterministic system. The horse's endless running at the end creates an intentionally ambiguous open ending, leaving the protagonist's fate up to the viewer's interpretation.
Reroll's surreal events convey the unsettling influence of digital technology on our daily lives. Each incident depicts specific cases of disorientation: unintelligible digital avatars represent the constant distraction of unread message notifications; morning run scenes that shift between real life and Google Earth landscapes fracture our spatial understanding; auto-correction while writing critiques the constraints of expression in a world of ChatGPT and other language models; food bags rendered in a cooking pan reflect the abstraction of time and the process of the digital era; glitchy images in the meditation room foreshadow the ending while showcasing the protagonist's disoriented inner state.
