Last night I saw High Rise, a movie based on the book by the same name by J. G. Ballard starring Tom Hiddleston.
Would you like to see a mostly naked Tom Hiddleston? You're ticket money is well spent in the first five minutes.
The movie itself is a metaphor for societal meltdown with a very heavy dollop of blackest humor. I rather liked it, but it's a bit hard to watch in places. Not a feel-good movie but very interesting nonetheless. I actually got a grimdark Wes Anderson vibe off the picture.
The preview made it look like Snowpiercer. Was it substantially different?
ReplyDeleteDrWex Oh yeah. I can see the parallels, but it's not really the same. For one thing, there's no great apocalypse outside the building, people could just walk away but they don't. Also, Snowpiercer was basically a video game. Here, Hiddleston's character isn't rising up from the oppressed through the various levels to beat the overseers, he's just a guy who gets caught up in the madness like everyone else.
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