When your workplace means nothing to you, but demands most of your time for little pay, what space is there for meaning in your life?
This vignette of an erosion of personal identity by the endless machine is one of the best representations of loneliness I’ve ever seen.
All of the pieces to the “puzzle” that solves Aurora's loneliness seem to be there, but somehow they just never fit together. In many other films on the matter (certainly less grounded…
Wasted a good enough concept. I liked the cyberpunk London, and the two leads were good with what they were given, but pretty much everything else fell flat.
The movie goes exactly everywhere you’d expect it to go from its description and nowhere else. Whenever an interesting question seems to be coming up, a less interesting one is posed instead.
Unfortunately, very run of the mill.
A good conclusion to the “Self-discovery by travelling insane worlds” trilogy of 2023, along with Beau is Afraid and Barbie.
Crazy and interesting, visually amazing, but has some off-putting/uncomfortable elements to it, I’m still not sure how I feel about them (see my likes under the review if you’re okay with small spoilers). I also think I’m done with McNamara's schtick after The Favourite and 3 seasons of The Great, it’s a bit repetitive.
Nevertheless, I found it quite effective.
Way more interesting than a description of it would let on.
Slow, long-winded, and even banal, but in a fascinating way that will have me thinking about it for a while.
