high-rise building

Davon 2022-03-24 09:02:55

I said why the male protagonist is a little familiar, it turns out to be Loki in Thor. Judging from this film alone, I feel that the actor's acting skills are still good. In the Thor series, Loki's evil feeling is very good. When I arrived in this film, I couldn't feel that evil feeling. What a righteous gentleman.
This film is really a bizarre movie. It looks like a modern high-rise building, but it turned out to be an incredible story.
Are the bottom, middle class, and aristocracy ironic about today's society?
I finished the second half in half fast-forward.

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  • Kimberly 2022-04-23 07:03:32

    No.61 The form is more serious than the content, and Dousen's acting skills are also worrying.

  • 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 of condensedness due to the number of characters and the complexity of viewpoints, which makes Laing's doctor's role seem to be in a pile of mass graves Stagnate and flow at will. And so the “Thatcher” speech on the closing radio — Thatcher’s eulogy of capitalism in the 1970s (and a manifesto for the Conservative Party presidency) — seemed like an antidote to the film’s “class” predicament, But like the whole film, it has become a thin symbol of self-talk. Also Hiddleston has a too handsome skin that doesn't fit the movie, but doesn't feel any restrained emotion, like the rest of the film's overly hollow and pompous aesthetic.

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.