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Tom Nicoll Looks Beyond Male Influencer Culture in TIFF Title ‘Salvation’: ‘I Don’t Think Anyone’s Ever Been Insulted Into Changing Their Mind’
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Scottish writer-director Tom Nicoll is premiering his debut feature, "Salvation," at the Toronto International Film Festival. The psychological thriller follows an aspiring online life coach whose desperate efforts to reinvent himself and monetize his transformation drive the plot. Nicoll's film explores modern internet culture and the mechanics of online influence.
WHY IT MATTERS
The film offers a timely exploration of the psychological pressures and manipulative tactics inherent in contemporary online life-coaching and influencer culture.
Scottish writer-director Tom Nicoll is unveling at Toronto his buzzy debut “Salvation.” It tracks an aspiring online life coach whose attempt to reinvent himself and then sell that transformation to others pulls him in increasingly desperate directions. The psychological and blackly comic thriller world premieres in TIFF’s Discovery section, having already been selected for the […]
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