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Downsizing (2017)
Director: Alexander Payne
Writers: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Cast: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Social Satire
In the future a process is developed in which people can be shrunk down to only 5 inches tall. This help saves the environment as tiny people eat a whole lot less! The 'downsizing' also has an economic advantage as tiny people can sell off their assets and then have the buying power to live in luxury and wealth in new tiny town settlements. But what is the down side to downsizing? CR
I though this was pretty great and fun...Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you were only a few inches tall? And if you think you know what this movie is going to be about, think again...
The screen shots and the movie poster doesn't do the film justices. Sure its fun but it has a lot more going on than meets the eye. We get Matt Damon and his wife Kristen Wiig who decide to downsize themselves and retire to what they think is an upscale community built just for tiny people.
Only what happens when you have yourself shrunken to only 5 inches and your wife gets cold feet? Did I mention the shrinking process is irreversible. Once inside the community, note the net which keeps out birds that would love to eat the tiny people, the newly shrunkens find a world of decadence, combined with a world of hidden abuse. Sound interesting, and it is!
Just when the film seems like an interesting little comic sci-fi piece, it goes and gets deeper. It did that several times, each time changing gears and by the end I was totally unprepared for what would happen. Uhmm...that's probably too big of a build up It's a cool film, it kind of made me think and a whole lot of films don't do that these days.
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Downsizing (2017)
Writers: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Cast: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Social Satire
In the future a process is developed in which people can be shrunk down to only 5 inches tall. This help saves the environment as tiny people eat a whole lot less! The 'downsizing' also has an economic advantage as tiny people can sell off their assets and then have the buying power to live in luxury and wealth in new tiny town settlements. But what is the down side to downsizing? CR
I though this was pretty great and fun...Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you were only a few inches tall? And if you think you know what this movie is going to be about, think again...
The screen shots and the movie poster doesn't do the film justices. Sure its fun but it has a lot more going on than meets the eye. We get Matt Damon and his wife Kristen Wiig who decide to downsize themselves and retire to what they think is an upscale community built just for tiny people.
Only what happens when you have yourself shrunken to only 5 inches and your wife gets cold feet? Did I mention the shrinking process is irreversible. Once inside the community, note the net which keeps out birds that would love to eat the tiny people, the newly shrunkens find a world of decadence, combined with a world of hidden abuse. Sound interesting, and it is!
Just when the film seems like an interesting little comic sci-fi piece, it goes and gets deeper. It did that several times, each time changing gears and by the end I was totally unprepared for what would happen. Uhmm...that's probably too big of a build up It's a cool film, it kind of made me think and a whole lot of films don't do that these days.
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