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“… Sometimes it was hard for him to not believe that they were living in the future that had already happened and was now exhausted.” – JG Ballard
The future is something we are constantly thinking about people. Not to support “What’s tonight at dinner?” a way. I’m talking about the future. Our dreams and nightmares about where civilization, society, technology and humanity are moving.
And now I have to say that the future feels gloomy. One of the biggest factors in this terrible feeling, because many people have the future is growing and never more obvious between the rich and the rest of us.
It’s hard not to see that some people at the top are very selected people who make life miserable us all under them.
Obviously, this is not a problem that is trimmed overnight, and many great artwork has explored class warring history.
But there is one story that I have eaten since I declared it my 2016 movie. A movie that has only become more powerful and terrible every year. Brutal, dark, absurd and unpleasant science fiction tale that makes the perfect couples with the seemingly slide of our world in a worrying dystopia.
And the bows are in it! Naked!
High -rise
This is High -riseThe movie will tell you everywhere that you came out in 2015, but they are all the dates of the film festival that is not taken into account. The extensive release was in 2016. This is the 2016 movie. IMDB and Wikipedia can bend.
High -rise2016 film based on JG Ballard 1975 novel. Ballard was mainly known for writing post-apocalyptic and dystopic fiction, which looked at ideas on the collapse of society and the basic rules of people.
Inside High -riseThe story focuses around Robert Launch, a new tenant in a modern apartment complex that offers everything you need today. For example, there is a whole floor of the building, which is a supermarket, so residents don’t even have to leave to shop.
It becomes clear that the building is very divided by the class and is purposefully maintained by different floors, and the excessive rich rich in the highest floors and the poorest tenants occupying the apartments below.
Things collapse
As the story progresses, the residents of the building are starting to break their power as they become more and more dependent on the building in their daily lives. People stop going to their work, parents stop sending their children to school, and there seems to be a high -rise civilization that ensures the recovery of humanity.
All this is outlined with a very clear high -rise metaphor itself. As this social apocalypse is exacerbated, the rich people continue to live on the highest floors and even raid the lower floors about stocks and attack the poor tenants in the dark during breaks.
When it came time to turn Ballard’s novel into a movie, writer Amija Jump and director Ben Watley made a very conscious and integral choice for adaptation. Ballard’s novel does not give certain years to the events that are happening, but it is believed to be very close to the future as part of its precautionary tales.
The future already happened
Till High -rise The film made up the story in 1975, in the same year as the novel was released. Initially, the reasoning for this may seem like a chance to indulge in some nostalgic styles, such as the era of fashion or overall design aesthetics.
But the line from the ball garde’s novel that finds its way to the movie voice very early is the one that started this video and is the key to understanding High -rise like a movie.
By setting the film in the 1970s and introducing its story as an example of a society downturn, it quarrels about the creative thesis of the ballard, which is raised in this brilliant row. Your promised future is the one you are experiencing at the moment, and it’s already emptied. We’ll get back to it.
Have to say that albeit albeit High -rise is my favorite movie, I admit it won’t be a movie … Okay, probably most people. This is a movie where the dog is killed and eaten in the first two minutes, and then murdering another dog. If I have learned something at all from my decades when you watch, write and talk about movies, it’s that the audience really doesn’t like it when the puppies die in your film.
It only gets worse
And the rest of the movie won’t be much more fun. Tom Hiddleston Play Robert Land and his observations about the building and its people lead to a character that many people may not like. Laona is a cold man who is looking for something that could cause some real people, but he also plays a dark prank on the all -up of rich kids from the building, leading to horrific suicide.
After that, LAUND Journey and Philosophy become very passive as the building descends in chaos and anarchy. It’s a character that probably works better in written form but I think Hiddleston gives one of his most layered shows High -riseIn the area
This is also a movie with a very niche sense of humor. Just as I mentioned, all this “dog eating” bit at first comes from the first line of the novel of the ball and it is meant as a bit dark comedyA similar example in the area is when Linge sits down at dinner with the architect Anthony Royal (playing Jeremy Iron), who asks the Linge for his thoughts on the building because someone screams in the background.
Watching from this angle is a lot of black absurd I love High -riseIn particular, Luke Evans, like Richard Wilder, one of the tenants of the building, who, as his name says, is doing his wildest impulses and behavior. Evans is unhindered, throws printed and goes to the overall goblin mode. It’s funny and tragically the same.
But High -rise Not at the factory wrapped in its presentation. The result of Klint Mansel is properly psychotic, moving from Regal Bombast for a moment to childish whims, and this is not a musical experience for the audience to feel comfortable.
The overall look of the film is extremely polished, but dreamy editing is not something comprehensive. I love it because it emphasizes the idyllic dreams of progress and comfort, slowly consumed by nightmares of human condition.
And that means we get the sequence set on the ABBA SOS Portishead cover, one of the best things in the last decade.
I could talk about High -rise for hours, but one of the reasons I wanted to make a video on it is the hope that at least one person will reveal it High -rise Because they saw this video. So, I don’t want to select the whole movie.
But, the second reason I felt High -rise deserved highlight is because I see many people start to feel what to experience High -rise Speaking of 2016.
The rich and the rest of us
We look like we are among the great cultures of the gorgeous division between the Haves and Ham-not. So many of us understand that the future we were sold to us will never be possible. It was a dream that had already happened and is now exhausted.
At the end High -riseLaivis has found happiness. Realizing that the social construct of the post -apocalyptic society is probably the best reflection of humanity in all its animals. And he is waiting for the other high -rise building to find the same descent in a barbaric bliss.
It’s not an optimistic end, it’s a gloomy comic, but one in which I can’t help you feel a dark truth. It seems that so many people are waiting for the public powder barrel to explode, and there are a lot of this mood back to the election to make the highest class feel the same shock that the rest we experience.
High -rise It is quite clear in its metaphorical capitalist society, especially at the very end with a kid’s hero, listening to the transmission of Margaret Thatcher, and I think many more people would now be involved in the film’s mentality about the characteristic dissonance of capitalism with human nature.
I hope the world ends not reflecting High -rise But I only cleaned dog recipes.
