CultureTrying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

The omnipresent trailer for One Night Only might make the film seem as though it softens its frightening and absurd premise. Set in an otherwise ordinary modern New York, the story imagines single people being allowed to have sex on only one night each year. That setup could suggest a conventional romantic comedy, but the film does not simply gloss over the dystopian idea. Its premise remains central to what follows.

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