High-Rise Comments

  • Thaddeus 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Monosyllabic surname, dog-eating, taciturn, unsociable, dead house, highly educated, doctor, middle class, ostracized by white people, mistaken for homosexuality, despised and not trash sorting. I don't know if it's a coincidence or the director did it deliberately. If it wasn't for the white skin of Hirst, he would be a proper...

  • Aracely 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Experimental work? The director may be a shivering fan. . Two hours of hysteria, I didn't watch it anyway, or it may be that I'm becoming more and more indifferent to Hirst....

  • Robbie 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    The only bright spot: Dousen's uniform...

  • Harley 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Slightly better than the mother, it is said that the original is more...

  • Deontae 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    The Dousen appreciation film, a former fan of mine will still be moved after watching it. Failed as a dystopian...

  • Kaylie 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    It's bad, bad, bad, bad in every way, the metaphor is good, satirizes capitalism, high society, but the filming is too bad. Nothing compares to Snowpiercer. 4...

  • Federico 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    The premise of telling a good dystopian story is to have a spiritual/material/institutional utopian structure, and then to destroy it. Obviously, this film does not, neither create islands nor build towers. The super-long serial montage is interesting, but it also makes the narrative erratic and turns the whole film into a castle in the air...

  • Clay 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    The illiterate said that it was a little out of reach. ....

  • Sam 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    Whateley wanted to create his own audiovisual aesthetic in editing and cinematography, but that didn't work for this film, at least. In addition to connecting the collapsed states of different "levels" in several bridge segments and extracting an open interpretation, the fast editing and the photography with tricky camera positions only have an exaggerated and empty tension in the rest of the time. This complex web of "social hierarchy" woven in this "Fauvist" high-rise building loses its sense...

  • Drew 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    The picture is exquisite but otherwise rotten, like being served a carefully placed chocolate-flavored sho at a Michelin...

Extended Reading

High-Rise quotes

  • Charlotte: You know, you look much better without your clothes on. You're lucky. Not many people do.

  • [first lines]

    Laing: [narrating] For all its inconveniences, Laing was satisfied with life in the high-rise. Now that so many of the residents were out of the way, he felt able to relax. More in charge of himself. Ready to move forward and explore life. How and where, exactly, he had not yet decided.

    Nathan Steele: [checking teeth] I see the rot's set in. Do you fancy a drink? Cosgrove is here. All boys together.

    [indicates a dead man]

    Laing: Sometimes he found it difficult not to believe they were living in a future that had already taken place.