In search of calm after the loss of the sisters, and above all anonymity talented Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) is introduced into a luxury apartment building, which was built to meet all the whims of the London elite. It soon becomes clear, however, that other tenants do not have the slightest intention to leave him alone and takes him through his intrigues. Neighbors are becoming more intrusive. The man is a witness and participant in unhealthy competition, which ran all residents. Gradually glamorous, these drunk and crazy orgy paradise turns into hell, and orderly world enters chaos, lawlessness and violence.
Skyscraper to be a paradise for residents is a kind of incubator for mobilizing all social classes . On the lowest floors of the poor live, and on the highest elite itself. The building resembles a kind of social ladder. Just as a train of said by me “Snowpiercer: Ark of the future.” We have everything here: supermarkets, saunas, gyms, maintenance cares about is that no one lacked energy, water, and in the corridors not littered with garbage. As it is not difficult to guess the growing difference of classes leads to revolution. At its head is a journalist, Richard Wilder (Luke Evans). In the fast-paced world specifically designed becomes a trap.
The director Ben Wheatley took on quite a challenge, trying faithfully to film the novel Ballard. I must admit that this attempt goes half victorious. Already the opening scene showing the destroyed building intrigues the viewer who wants to see how this happened. In my opinion, a stroke of genius is also a lack modernize the film and shoot him in the climate of the 70s as it is described in the book. Climate contemporary events, discos, glamor and freedom brilliantly shows the direction in which tended English society at the time. Added to this is a great soundtrack with such gems such as cover Abby “SOS” brilliantly executed by the British trip-hop band Portishead.
“High-Rise” in terms of feature ideal can not, but significantly makes up for its lacks the visual side. The splendor of the upper class until the shoes in his eyes, perhaps because the viewer begins at some point to feel a certain satisfaction when the beautiful interiors are a little devastated by frustrated residents. Psychedelic climate boosts excellent acting. Jeremy Irons. Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, they all wzbili to the heights of their abilities and served to a great spectacle. In this film does not have a weak role.
The downside is the scenario, though perhaps more attempts director to the maximum approximation to the original book. By this some scenes, which in the book is neatly described by J. G. Ballard on the screen fall out boring, and sometimes even incomprehensible. At some point, you get the impression that the director does not quite know what he wants to put more emphasis on the social stratification that can show how tragic consequences for the planet can be greedy human behavior. Through this film at some point falls into a moralistic tone designed to provide simple message: man is the greatest evil. The story somewhere disappears, and the viewer becomes witness to outsiders observing the dramatic events taking place on different floors. It was the biggest blemish on the film. Feel unsatisfied dialogue scenes using previously cited by me the brilliant cast.
“High-Rise” may not be a masterpiece but nevertheless setting out to him to the movies.
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