Black Bits is a 2023 Italian–Polish thriller film directed by Alessio Liguori. It follows a couple of hackers who, after a heist, hide in a remote safe house where they become entangled in a dangerous situation connected to the dark web.

Genre: Thriller Runtime: 82 minutes IMDb 3'7

Plot: Dora and Beth, lovers as well as hackers and thieves, escape to a secluded house deep in the woods after stealing valuable next‑generation neurochips from a mysterious dark‑web‑linked company. The hideout, isolated from all digital connections, soon reveals strange and threatening elements. A hostile man appears, the neurochips disappear, and the women find themselves in a fight for survival as the situation becomes increasingly unstable and dangerous.

Cast

Jordan Alexandra as Dora

Yvonne Mai as Beth

Sebastian Fabijański as Hank

Amelia Clay

Vittoria Bianchini

Leonardo Ferrantini as The Contact

Dora and Beth, a couple of hackers and robbers, hide in a remote house far from any digital connection after their latest heist. What initially seems like a safe refuge becomes a disturbing and dangerous environment where their fate appears controlled by forces operating on the dark web.

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BLACK BITS — A Film That Reveals Itself Only When It Breaks

Some films confuse us because they’re clumsy. Black Bits confuses us because it’s not trying to behave like a film at all. It took me a while to understand what I was watching — and yes, the script could have been smoother, hahahaha — but once you stop treating Black Bits as a traditional narrative and start seeing it as a simulation glitching in real time, everything suddenly becomes coherent.

The title already gives the secret away. “Black Bits”: black as in void, erasure, the unknown; bits as in digital fragments, incomplete packets of data. Put together, the title suggests fragments of corrupted information. The film is warning you from the beginning that what you’re about to see is not a story — it’s a system struggling to hold itself together.

The opening in the bar is the first clue. A bartender closing up, a woman barging in, an instant intimacy that feels too neat, too empty, too pre‑programmed. This isn’t bad writing; it’s a calibration phase. A tutorial level disguised as a noir encounter. The simulation is teaching the characters how to interact, and teaching us how to watch.

Once the two women flee into the forest, the film drops all pretence of realism. A hyper‑modern glass hideout appears in the middle of nowhere. There is no food, no water, no practical survival logic. A lone “Rambo” figure stalks them with the single‑mindedness of an NPC. A mysterious injectable liquid is treated like a resource, not a narrative object. Characters die and then reappear. The environment behaves less like a world and more like a mission: item retrieval, enemy encounter, resource management, scripted conflict, respawn. The film is showing you the machinery beneath the fiction.

The clearest revelation comes when the two girls fight. One “dies.” The survivor reacts with genuine shock — and then the dead girl reappears, whole and unharmed. This is not a twist. It is the moment the system breaks. The simulation runs a death‑state protocol, but the flag doesn’t stick. The avatar reloads. The survivor reacts like someone whose internal logic does not match the system’s logic. It’s the Total Recall moment: the rupture where the world stops behaving according to the rules the characters believe they live under. This is the film’s thesis in miniature — you are watching a simulation pretending to be a story, and it’s failing to hide its seams.

The final act confirms this. A third girl appears outside the forest, working on a computer. A man at home leaves his computer, and the two protagonists appear on his screen. The film quietly confesses its structure: the forest scenario is a shared simulation; the players are outside it; the girls inside are avatars or constructs. When the three women drive away together, it’s not an escape. It’s a logout sequence.

Seen this way, Black Bits is not about crime, or romance, or survival. It is about corrupted data, unstable simulations, avatars discovering the cracks in their world, the emotional illusion of narrative, and the fragility of digital identity. It behaves like a story that cannot hold itself together because it is not a story — it is a system collapsing under its own logic.

Yes, the script could have been smoother. A little more connective tissue would have helped viewers find the thread sooner. But once you understand the film’s internal logic — once you accept that the glitches are the point — Black Bits becomes strangely coherent. It’s not a puzzle to solve; it’s a system to observe. And in that sense, it stands comfortably beside Total Recall: a world built from implanted memories, scripted emotions, and the unsettling moment when the simulation forgets to hide its seams.