De Kuthoer

“Why can't we just have different opinions and be nice about it?” asks columnist Femke Boot (Katja Herbers). Oh, Femke! She knows life’s not like that, but to a person with morals, it’s a really difficult thing to comprehend as to why seemingly normal, decent people can be such horrendous monsters once behind a keyboard. It's pretty much everyone, too – her otherwise friendly neighbor (Rein Hofman) is a racist troll, respectable citizens wish her dead, and total strangers say things to her online you'd never say in public. “Never read the comments,” her writer boyfriend (Bram van der Kelen) tells her, but she can't help it. And when her desire to shut her critics up – permanently – becomes too tempting, she can't help that, either. For someone so seemingly nice and decent, Femke Boot has a pretty violent nasty streak. Hell hath no fury like someone insulted on social media. (Fantasia International Film Festival)