Is This Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? The groundbreaking director of 'Aggro Dr1ft' simultaneously embraces and critiques video game technology in a creepily frustrating new satire.

“A Clockwork Orange” opens with Alex DeLarge and his fellow Droogs breaking into the home of a wealthy writer and raping his wife, which would be bad enough if he didn’t sing “Singin’ in the Rain.” Half a century later, the scene seems no less horrifying given the way Stanley Kubrick made such extreme violence seem fun for the deranged kids doing it. Could anything be more nihilistic than that?

Middle-aged bad boy Harmony Korine certainly thinks so. The latest stunt from his taboo-busting EDGLRD studio, “Baby Invasion” blurs the line between real life and creepy video game, so much so that it’s hard to tell what we’re looking at during the trippy project’s 79-minute runtime.

First-person views of Florida McMansions being ransacked by screen-addicted sociopaths? Creepy face-replacement technology that turns armed vandals into Gerber babies with demon horns? AI-generated cameos from an elusive CG bunny? And time out for an impromptu dance party? It’s all there, strung together in an aggressively experimental freestyle riff on what technology is doing to our minds – and what it can, in turn, do for cinema.