Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
In my memory, the film IS the twist. On this rewatch (perhaps my third time watching the film ever) I was struck by how much this film offers beyond the twist. It’s masterful filmmaking and screenwriting - not only managing to effectively hide the ball from viewer the whole time (or the penny, for that matter) but the script also tells a layered, simple, beautiful story. Every relationship is so clearly defined with its own set of stakes. So many…
So deliciously bad. If u are also high, here are my favs:
1.) The VFX is so awful. Like in a way you expect from Sci Fi channel or movies in the early 2000s
2.) The foley sound effects
3.) Nina’s drinking
4.) the CGI horses running across the plains. Someone saw this and was like “yeah the horse stuff looks great. Let’s lean into that.”
Budget:
$18,000,000
Gross US & Canada
$2,321,801
Opening weekend US & Canada
$1,216,578
Gross worldwide
$3,606,529
Two wealthy accomplished people apply to have a baby in a dystopian world where the state has outlawed reproduction. The movie haunts in the best way. First, in its masterful world-building. So much is communicated about the state of the barren dying world by choices in dialogue and production design inside of a plush home where Elizabeth Olsen might take us on AD home tour. Second, the movie is a harrowing interrogation of our urge to have kids. (Trigger alert…
Listen, I worked in this company as a member of the cleaning crew. And we ALL knew. Often we’d have to stay extra late cuz the boss lady and her lil fella were smashing plates on the ground or crawling around on the floor of the conference room. We all got…used to it. When she would lower the blinds to her office, it was well known among the cleaning and security staff: she’s up in there smellin stuff from the lost and found and straight up whacking off. Anyway, I’m glad they made a film about it and it’s insane she’s still our boss.