History Film / TheCongress

* ActionGirl: The film character most associated with the Robin Wright avatar.

* FictionalCounterpart: Miramount Studios, whose name is a blend of Miramax and Paramount.

* ReferenceOverdosed: The drug-induced animated world is filled with countless references to art, literature, history and pop culture given that it's an escapist abyss people willingly go to in order to become what they desire to be, essentially being a 2D animated version of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne''.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[spoiler: In the ending Robin wakes up from the animated realm into reality, finding out that it has become a ''Film/ChildrenOfMen''-like dystopia where most people prefer to keep themselves in a drugged state]].

** Numerous other famous people such as Creator/MarilynMonroe, Creator/ClintEastwood, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/DavidBowie, Creator/PabloPicasso, UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, Creator/FridaKahlo, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and more are replicated in animation.

* ToonTransformation: A ThroughTheEyesOfMadness variation. Taking the drugs to enter Abrahama makes everything look animated. Taking additional types of drug can also [[ForcedTransformation change your appearance]] depending on what you want to look like.

* ToonTransformation: A ThroughTheEyesOfMadness variation. Taking the drugs to enter Abrahama makes everything look animated. Taking additional types of drug can also [[BalefulPolymorph change your appearance]] depending on what you want to look like.

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Robin Wright plays [[AdamWesting herself]] as an actress whose fickleness and unpredictability ruined a very promising career and who is slowly aging out of her beauty. She is offered one last chance by Miramount Studios: they will buy the digital image rights from her in exchange for a large sum of money and a promise ''never'' to act again. Miramount will scan her body and expressions and be able to create a perfect digital version of Robin they can use on screen. With an ailing son to take care of and her career prospects vanishing, Robin agrees. Twenty years later the 'real' Robin attends the Futurological Congress as a guest, a Miramount presentation over their new drug that allows people to transform themselves into animated avatars, including Robin herself who has signed away the rights so that people can become her. The Congress takes place in an illusionary, [[MediumBlending animated universe]] that initially charms but quickly repels Robin. The film is half live action and half animated, representing the 'real' and 'chemical party' universes.

* ToonTransformation: A ThroughTheEyesOfMadness variation. Taking the dugs to enter Abrahama makes everything look animated. Taking additional types of drug can also [[BalefulPolymorph change your appearance]] depending on what you want to look like.

* ReferenceOverdosed: In the drug-induced animated world is filled with countless references to art, literature, history and pop culture given that it's an escapist abyss people willingly go to in order to become what they desire to be, essentially being a 2D animated version of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne''.

* ReferenceOverdosed: In the drug-induced animated world is filled with countless references to art, literature, history and pop culture given that it's an escapist abyss people willingly go to in order to be what they desire to be, essentially being a 2D animated version of ''Film/ReadyPlayerOne''.

** Literary figures also appear in the animated realm, such as Literature/MobyDick, [[Literature/AliceInWonderland The Mad Hatter]], [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]], and religious ones such as [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Horus]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddha]], UsefulNotes/JesusChrist as well as Myth/ClassicalMythology characters.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Dylan is willing to give Robin his own capsule to wake up and search for Aaron in the real world, even if it means never seeing each other again.

** Literary figures also appear in the animated realm, such as Literature/MobyDick, [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]], and religious ones such as [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddha]], UsefulNotes/JesusChrist as well as Myth/ClassicalMythology characters.

* ToonTown: Everyone Abrahama City looks animated due to hallucinogenic drugs.
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* SenselessViolins: One character transports a [[IKEAWeaponry disassembled]] sniper rifle in a violin case.

* ToonTransformation
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture

* ExtyYearsFromNow: The movie starts in more or less the present ([[spoiler:presumably in 2010, given that the license tags on future-Robin's vehicle say 2030 when she goes to the Congress after her twenty-year contract with Miramount expires]]), then leaps twenty years ahead about a third of the way through, then [[spoiler: leaps ahead a further twenty years later in the film.]]

''The Congress'' is a 2013 French-Israeli ScienceFiction film loosely based on the Creator/StanislawLem novel ''The Futurological Congress''. It is directed by Ari Folman and stars Creator/RobinWright, who also co-produced. The film also stars Creator/HarveyKeitel, Creator/DannyHuston, Creator/PaulGiamatti, and Creator/JonHamm in supporting roles.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[spoiler: In the ending Robin wakes up from the animated realm into reality, finding out that it has become an abandoned, dystopian landscape where most people prefer to keep themselves in a drugged state]].

** Numerous other famous people such as Creator/MarilynMonroe, Creator/ClintEastwood, Music/ElvisPresley, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/DavidBowie, Creator/PabloPicasso, UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc and more are replicated in animation.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A fellow has-been actor Robin runs into at the Futurological Congress looks and sounds suspiciously like [[Creator/TomCruise that guy from ''Top Gun'']].

* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: The rebels might be fighting the good fight, but they still [[spoiler: attack the animated hotel with missiles and other weaponry, after one of their agents assassinates the Congress' MC. The style of animation leaves it ambiguous if many innocents die in the attack, however.]]

* AdamWesting: A very unusual case as it is played for pathos rather than comedy. The film version of Robin Wright is someone whose career declined much more steeply than her real life counterpart and whose poor choices and unreliability as an actress are invoked for devastating effect. The fictional Robin also has a son who has a degenerative condition destined to leave him blind and deaf.
* AmbiguousEnding: In the final scene, is not clear if [[spoiler: Robin actually reunited with her son, or if that encounter is only part of a drug-induced dream.]]

* LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics: A purposefully big one with Jeff Green stating that only 0,001% of people that went to see ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' actually read the books to make the point that audiences don't like reading.