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will show you an action mystery sci-fi
film from 2015 titled self slash less
spoilers ahead watch out and take care
damien hale a successful businessman and
billionaire is looking through large
glass windows in his skyscraper
apartment in nyc
behind him a nurse is getting ready to
leave and is picking up her tools the
billionaire has terminal cancer and
barely six months left to live
later during lunch with his best friend
martin they discuss his illness and how
he still hasn't told his daughter claire
about it damien doesn't have a good
relationship with claire because he was
a workaholic while she was growing up
and didn't spend enough time with her
martin thinks that if claire knows about
the illness she will forgive him and
they will quickly make amends before
damian and martin weighs the billionaire
asks his friend whether he heard of
shedding and martin says no
while in his limousine damien tries to
call claire but she doesn't answer
then he pulls a business card of a
company named phoenix biogenetic and
remembers the conversation he had with
the company owner dr albright the
doctor's primary mission in life is to
offer humanity's greatest minds a way to
extend their life and fulfill their full
potential he has created a device that
can transport consciousness from one
body to another a process known as
shedding the company provides new bodies
genetically engineered to perfection to
everyone willing to pay big money for
them damien remembers how he asked the
doctor why their service was still
illegal albright said that he asked the
wrong questions the right question would
be do you feel immortal after going
through these memories and wondering
whether to take albright's offer damian
goes to see claire who was running a
non-profit organization
wanting to make things right before
dying he gives his daughter money but
doesn't tell her about the illness
she refuses to take the money because
she thinks he's manipulating her
expecting his checkbook to solve every
problem
later damien is sitting in his office
disappointed with how things turned out
with claire
desperate to have another chance at life
he continues to research shedding in
phoenix biogenic
he discovers that the procedure was
invented by dr jensen and watches a
video of him explaining the philosophy
behind it jensen wanted to free the mind
from the body and allow people to live
even after the body dies but as damien
is researching shedding he starts
coughing blood and faints the illness is
starting to consume him so when he wakes
up with breathing tubes attached to his
nose he decides to call albright and
schedule the procedure albright explains
how after the switch he can't contact
anybody and that his old life won't
exist he also instructs him to come to
new orleans and publicly fake his death
the next day damian's on a plane and
calls martin asking if they can have
lunch in new orleans before meeting him
he goes to the new orleans graveyard and
buries a mysterious box near one grave
at lunch with martin damien fakes a
seizure and falls on the floor
martin gets scared and calls 9-1-1 but
instead of going to the hospital the
ambulance vehicle takes the billionaire
to phoenix biogenic they quickly start
the procedure so they inject damien with
a needle and put him in the machine
fully conscious the strong lights and
loud sounds make him even more
uncomfortable but his perception is
quickly transferred into the new young
body when damien turns his head he sees
his old body unconscious and dead
shocked and disgusted he throws up
albright tells him that it will take a
few days to adapt while damian starts
hallucinating objects start morphing and
he sees a picture of a field with horses
the doctor then sarcastically says that
death has side effects damian now has to
stay in the hospital and go through
training and physical therapy to get
used to his new body since he can't go
back to his new life damien also has to
learn a fake biography and use a new
name edward kidner after a brief phase
of confusion and desperation he starts
liking his new handsome self but the
hallucinations and headaches don't go
away albright tells him that his mind
still hasn't got used to the new neural
structure so he gives him pills that
will help the transition
if damian doesn't take them he might die
or have severe migraines and
hallucinations also he must stay in new
orleans to meet with albright regularly
and get his weekly pill supply after
damien completes the training he is
dropped at a large beautiful house in
new orleans that is now his damien aka
edward is quickly adapting and sooner
than later starts playing basketball in
the neighborhood there he meets anton
who lives right next to him and offers
to take him out that same night they go
to a club and every woman is staring at
damien who is now a handsome young man
but he still isn't used to answering
questions about his life job and age so
people think he's a little weird
despite this damian gets into a new
routine much sooner than expected he
starts hanging out with his friends
playing basketball sleeping with
beautiful women hitting his pills
clubbing and simply enjoying life
after a while this new routine doesn't
satisfy him anymore especially since he
can't see his daughter distracted by his
sadness one day he forgets to take his
pill and soon after starts hallucinating
he sees flashbacks of the army along
with images of a small town with a
pumpkin tower in his hallucinations he
also sees a mother with her sick little
daughter living in the countryside
since the hallucination is too vivid and
strong damian thinks it's a memory later
he describes what he saw to dr albright
who insists it's just a mix of his old
memories and his current emotions as a
way to draw his attention to something
else the doctor gives him tickets to
hawaii and doubles his medication he
also tells him that he saw a sick little
girl because he misses claret and that
the latino woman from his hallucination
is probably some one-night stand from
his youth but damian didn't tell
albright that the woman was latina so he
immediately starts suspecting the doctor
he knows something is wrong so later
tries to find the pumpkin tower online
turns out there is an exact tower in a
small town in st louis
looking for answers he decides to trick
albright and go to st louis instead of
hawaii
before leaving he goes to the graveyard
and digs up the box he buried in it
there is money documents and credit
cards so he takes some and heads toward
the airport one of albright's men
follows him but damien quickly escapes
his side and catches a flight to the
small town a few hours later he arrives
right at the pumpkin tower he saw before
next to the tower he notices a house and
knocks at the door but there's nobody
there
sensing there's more that meets the eye
damien decides to enter the property and
inside sees medical bills and parts of a
respirator machine
most importantly he sees a picture of
madeline and anna the mother and
daughter from his hallucination he also
sees his new self in one of the pictures
turns out the body wasn't genetically
engineered but was an actual person with
a life
as he's dealing with the uncomfortable
truth madeleine returns home and points
a gun at him from behind
he tells her to calm down and slowly
turns toward her as she falls on the
floor crying in disbelief because she
thought her husband was dead as he tries
to explain albright's men come into the
house knock out madeleine and try to
kidnap damian his friend anton comes too
since he was part of the phoenix
biogenetics and was spying on him the
whole time
anton explains that madeleine's husband
mark agreed to give his body for money
that would cover his daughter's
treatment damian is shocked and
confronts anton explaining why albright
is a murderer the spy then gives a
cold-hearted metaphor telling him that
it's normal to be upset because he
bought a new car and just found out the
car had a few miles on it also even
though he is angry there's no point in
coming back to the house since they will
assassinate madeline and burn her
property luckily the billionaire has a
strong moral compass so decides to trick
all bright's man and save madeleine he
pretends to take his pill so he goes to
the bathroom and attacks one of the men
there with the help of mark's army
instincts he kills a few of albright's
men and goes to wake up madeleine but
loses his pills during a fight anton and
the others try to burn the house down
but madeline and damian go under the
platform and start shooting them in the
legs soon after damien kills everyone
and runs toward the car with mark's wife
damien lies to her and pretends to be
her husband saying he agreed to do some
dirty work to pay for anna's medicine
both of them head off to save anna who
is at school anna also thinks damian is
her dad so she runs toward him and hugs
him yelling that she knew he wasn't dead
later the three of them book a stay at a
motel where damien uses a computer to
find more about phoenix biogenic
he discovers that albright was a student
of jensen and also finds the address of
phyllis dr jensen's wife
because he doesn't have any pills he
gets a migraine and starts hallucinating
again
madeline gets worried but damien knows
what to do
he decides to visit phyllis and learn
more about the company the next morning
they take the car and go to the nursery
home where jensen's wife is staying he
poses as a student that's doing research
about jensen's work and asks phyllis to
give him the doctor's old papers and
documents the old woman has alzheimer's
so she believes damien and starts
telling him all sorts of information
he finds out that albright visits her
every week so he quickly figures out
that jensen is using albright's body he
asks phyllis to call albright and invite
him to come
when the doctor arrives damien points a
gun at him demanding more pills but
albright tells him a bitter truth the
more pills he takes the more mark
disappears along with his fighting
skills and army training without the
pills damien's mind will fall into
oblivion and mark will take over the
body damien then kidnaps albright and
demands he takes him to the lab but as
they start walking through the hallway
all bright's men attack and disarm him
as they are taking damien to a dark
vehicle madeline arrives and hits one of
albright's men
turns out it was anton in a new body
it's not his first shedding and that's
why he can quickly adapt to new vessels
damien fights off the other guard but
before the young couple runs away anton
warns madeleine that damian is hiding
something and tells her to ask him about
their daughter's birthday when damien
and madeline get into their car the
concerned mother insists they pull over
as soon as the coast is clear she wants
to get something straight especially
after the interaction with anton
she asks damian about anna's birthday
and other details about their life
together when he can't give any answers
he starts explaining the situation while
anna observes their fight from the car
wondering whether everything is okay
madeline gets very agitated and angry
because damien manipulated her and
because she has to disappoint her
daughter she doesn't want to explain to
anna how the man who looks exactly like
her father is in fact a stranger but
albright's men want to kill her too so
even though she doesn't like or trust
damien she has to work with him to
survive
the billionaire then thinks a plan to
ask help from martin and place anna and
madeline in a safe location when they
arrive at his friend's mansion damian
convinces martin of the truth by
describing details only the two of them
know martin then agrees to help and
organizes their escape
later damien tries to figure out how to
explain to little anna that she's never
going to see her father again
but he starts bonding with her building
new beautiful father-daughter memories
he teaches her how to swim and they have
a great time together while madeline
observes them from the window happy
since he is in her husband's body she
feels attracted to damian so she asks to
listen to his heart and kisses him
damien feels uncomfortable and so he
starts telling her about his previous
life in order to shift her attention for
mark he opens up about his relationship
with claire and they have an honest
heart-to-heart conversation but suddenly
damian notices that all the mirrors in
the house are covered he knows that
martin's son died two years ago and
quickly starts suspecting that something
is wrong he runs and tries to find anna
who's in a large kid's room playing with
a little boy
damien immediately figures out that
martin brought his child to phoenix
biogenetic as well and gave him a new
body turns out martin ratted them out to
albright and that the killers are
waiting outside to kill them but damien
confronts his friend and tells him that
the little kid's body is not created in
a lab
it was a real person in someone else's
child
martin is shocked and disgusted so he
decides to help them this time for real
he takes madeline and anna to a safe
location on foot through a forest while
damian drives off in a car's bay soon
after he gets into a car chase with
albright's men who are trying to capture
and kill him after shooting and crashing
their cars into each other all of them
get into a massive car accident damien
gets out of the car and makes sure
everybody is dead before going to the
diner where he's supposed to meet
madeline and martin
however martin's the only one who
arrives he explains to damian how
madeline and anna got ahead of him in
the forest
they asked for help from a mysterious
car on the road
little did they know it was albright's
men so they got kidnapped and martin
couldn't do anything because they were
far away damien also learns martin
planted the business card from phoenix
biogenetic as a way to help him most
importantly he discovers that martin
cracked the formula for albright's pills
and that he can engineer them from
scratch but damien starts wondering
whether he should continue to take pills
especially since that way he's killing
mark
he puts off the decision until later
since now he's priority is to save
madeleine and anna the plan is to stay
off the pill for 12 hours hoping to use
mark's memories to find more information
about the lab's location during his
withdrawal he sees a mardi gras float
storage near albright's lab so he heads
to new orleans to find the storage the
next day he goes to new orleans and
finds the lab exactly next to a mardi
gras storage he breaks in and attacks a
few guards without anybody noticing but
in the room where the machine transfers
consciousness he sees two new bodies
suddenly albright appears behind a glass
wall he sarcastically tells damian that
madeleine was the perfect body match for
a new client and that ana's organs won't
be wasted damien gets angry and shoots
at the glass that separates them when
suddenly two of all bright's men appear
and disarm him his body will now be used
as a new vessel for anton's
consciousness
before stepping into the machine indian
finds a bullet and swallows it without
anybody noticing next thing we know
anton wakes up in mark's body albright
starts asking questions to determine
whether it's really anton after he's
convinced he sends him on a mission to
assassinate madeleine anna but when
anton enters the room they are staying
at he kills the guards instead and saves
the mother and child
turns out it was damian and mark's body
all along
the three of them start running away and
fight off albright's men
soon they end up in a room which
separates them from albright with a
glass wall damien tells the doctor that
he carefully listened to instructions
before the first procedure he remembered
that the transformation won't work if
there is metal on the bodies by
swallowing a bullet he managed to remain
in mark's body albright doesn't think
that damian will kill him because he's
the only one who has the pill formula
but he doesn't know that martin cracked
the code so damian burns the doctor with
a torch after they escaped the lab anna
and madeline go to a safe destination
martin found for them but damien doesn't
come along
instead he goes to see claire he poses
as her father's friend and starts
opening up he tells claire that damien
regretted not spending time with her as
a child and that he was proud of her
then he gives her a letter and leaves
but not without glancing at her one more
time from outside the window the next
thing we see is damian waking up in a
hotel room he is confused and finds a
video of himself on a computer turns out
damien isn't in mark's body anymore the
billionaire decided to get off the pill
and allow mark to take over giving him
back the life that was taken from him
mark is in shock but he feels extremely
grateful he then goes to join madeline
and anna who are now living on a
beautiful tropical island
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