The Lathe (2024) centers it’s protagonist, initials O. P. (gender unimportant, we’ll pick the hottest actor and go from there), as they discover a strange power. Whenever they post a take, it comes true.

Over a tortuous 3-and-a-half hour cinematic journey, we discover that top intelligence agencies believe O. P. to have mathematically perfect takes, and have been surveilling them (reading their posts) to inform policy decisions. The great powers of the world grow so reliant on O. P. that it creates an international crisis when O. P. decides to

We get to experience it all with O. P.: Intrigue, introspection, voluntary celibacy, ethical dilemmas, being an inert tool for powers greater than ourselves, and most importantly, posting