Drew Dietsch | Published
“… Sometimes he found it difficult to not believe they were already happening and now living in a exhausted future.” – JG Ballard
The future is something we always think of as human beings. How to “What is dinner tonight?” I’m talking about the future. Our dreams and nightmares are about civilization, society, technology, and where humanity all sees.
And now I have to say that I feel the future is tough. One of the biggest factors in this horrifying feeling is that what many people have about the future is summed up in the growth and never obvious division between the rich and the rest of us.
It’s hard to see a very selected few people on top living miserable lives for us under all of us.
Obviously, this was not an issue that came out overnight, and many great works of art explored the history of class fighting.
But there’s one story that has eaten me ever since declaring my number one film in 2016. A brutal, dark, absurd, offensive, offensive science fiction story.
And inside Loki! naked!
High level
This is High levelthe film tells you that you came out in 2015, but they are all uncountable film festival dates. The wide release was in 2016. This is a 2016 film. IMDB and Wikipedia may be bent.
High levelthe 2016 film is based on a 1975 novel by JG Ballard. Ballad was mostly known for writing apocalyptic, dystopian fiction that dealt with social disintegration and ideas about basic human nature.
in High levelthe story centers around Robert Rhein, a new tenant in a modern apartment. For example, there is an entire floor of a building, a supermarket, so residents don’t even have to leave to shop.
The building is largely divided by class, which is revealed to be purposefully maintained by various floors, with exorbitant rich people living on the upper floors and poor tenants taking over the apartments below. It’s there.
Things get apart
As the story progresses, the building’s residents begin to experience power losses as they become increasingly dependent on the building for daily life. It appears that people have stopped going to work, parents have stopped sending their children to school, and there appears to be an entire civilization formed within the skyscrapers that correspond to the basic drive of humanity.
All of these are laid out in a very clear ratiophor of the high rise itself. As this social apocalypse escalates, decadent rich people continue to live in the upper floors, raiding lower floors for supplies, and assaulting poor tenants in the darkness during halt.
When it was time to turn Ballard’s novel into a film, writer Amy Jump and director Ben Wheatley made a very conscious and essential choice for adaptation. Ballard’s novel does not give a definitive year to events that take place, but it should be considered very near future as part of its warning story.
The future has already happened
High level The film sets the story in 1975, the same year the novel was released. At first, this may seem like an opportunity to indulge in some nostalgic styles, such as the fashion of the era and the overall design aesthetic.
But Ballard’s novel line, which advances into film narration very early, is what started this video and is key to understanding High level As a movie.
By setting the film in the ’70s and presenting its story as an example of social decline, it argues that Ballard’s creative treatise was put into its fantastic line. The future you promised is the future you are experiencing now, and it is already drained. Let’s go back to this.
But it should be said that High level My favourite movie, I realize it won’t be a movie for a movie… well, most people. This is a film in which a dog is killed and eaten in the first two minutes, and then another dog is killed by his own death. If you learn something after watching, writing, or talking for decades, the audience really doesn’t like it when the puppy dies in your film.
It’s just getting worse
And the rest of the film isn’t that hilarious. Tom Hiddleston plays Robert Lane, and his observations about the building and his people lead to characters that many people probably dislike. Rain is a cold man looking for something that could lead to real human connections, but he also plays a dark prank on the bo-rich child in the building that leads to a horrifying suicide.
Rhine’s journey and philosophy become very passive as the building descends into chaos and disorder. It’s probably a character that makes the feature work better in the written form, but I think Hiddleston offers one of his most layered performances High level.
This is also a film with a very niche sense of humor. As I mentioned, the entire first “dog eating” bit comes from the first line of Ballard’s novel, and it is intended to be a bit of a dark comedy. A similar example is when Laing sits for dinner with building architect Anthony Royal (played by Jeremy Irons).
From that angle, there are a lot of pitch black absurdities that I love. High levelLuke Evans, especially as Richard Wilder, is one of the tenants of the building who succumbs to his most wild impulses and actions, as his name says. Evans spits and doesn’t throw Goblin mode. It’s ridiculous and equally tragic.
but, High level It is not packaged in the factory in that presentation. Clint Munsell’s score is a proper mental illness, not a musical experience created to jump from imposing bombings on a childish whim and feel comfortable with the audience.
The overall look of the film is very refined, but the dreamy editing is not something that mainstream viewers would click on. I love it because it emphasizes the progress of comfort and idyllic dreams of comfort slowly and slowly by the inherent nightmare of the human condition.
And that means getting a sequence set in the Porty Shed Cover of ABBA’s “SOS” which is one of the best of the last decade.
I was able to talk High level For hours, one reason I wanted to do a video about it is hoped that at least one person will discover High level Because they saw this video. So I don’t want to separate everything from the film.
But other reasons I felt High level The obvious highlight is because I see what a lot of people are beginning to go through High level We were talking back to 2016.
The rich and the rest of us
We feel like we are in the midst of a big cultural awareness of the harsh division between what we have and not. Many of us realize that the future we were sold will never be impossible. It was someone else’s dream that was already happening and was exhausted by now.
At the end of High levelLine found happiness. It is to recognize that the social structure created by a high-rise apocalyptic society is likely to be the best reflection of humanity in all of its animal properties. And he waits for other nearby skyscrapers to find the same descent in wild bliss.
It’s not an optimistic ending, it’s from a dark cartoon, but something that can’t help you feel the dark truth. It seems that many people are waiting for the powder kegs of society to explode, and the rest of us are experiencing it, wanting higher classes to feel the same confusion .
High level A child character listening to the phoric takedown of capitalist society, especially the broadcast of Margaret Thatcher, is rather obvious at the end, and many more people are the inherent in capitalism with human nature. I think there’s a vibe in the film’s mentality about the dissonance of .
I hope the world will not be reflected High level But I’m brushing up my dog recipes just in case.
