Eden Log (2007)

A guy wakes up in a muddy pool with pants and nothing else, including his memories. He finds a set of revolving doors and an auto-playing greeting about caring for the plant and eventually rising to the surface. He finds a man odds strung up who tells him to leave, and a opaque cube that carries him higher. Security goons roam about, along with weird things that may have been human.

I would have enjoyed playing this as a video game. I probably have played variations of it. But that's how it feels structured. The main character finding upgrades as they go along. An actual shirt, some sort of light-rig. Sneaking around to avoid the security goons, who speak in such a way they provide vague hints of what's happening, only to get caught by some weirdo in a hazmat suit that spouts a lot of vague exposition. The increasing number and strength of the weird monsters. He gradually figures out more about himself, although we don't learn his name until the very end, but he also suffers strange seizures where he's dimly aware of turning feral.

Oh yeah, at one point he escapes into an elevator with a random lady he meets, and suffers another of the seizures. He gets flashes that are the two of them passionately making out, except we see the flashes of the reality, which is that it's not actually consensual. Yeesh.

That aside, it could have been a fun interactive experience. As a movie, it's awkward that he keeps conveniently finding these recordings that provide just a little information about what was going on. But with him not knowing anything, and the movie refusing to introduce many characters that could provide answers through normal conversation, we're stuck with the equivalent of those diaries and audio recordings people leave lying around in the FallOut games.

The whole thing is shot with a very limited color range, too. Black, white, grey. Outside of the security goons having red lenses, that's it. Like all the life has been sucked out down there, although it doesn't improve as he climbs higher. The main character starts out covered in mud, but even after he cleans his face, he still has this metallic grey pallor.