Words to describe this film: creepy, transcendent, bizarre, beautiful, original... and shimmery! Honestly, there were times when this film could have played as an effective screen saver on my tv, so elegant were the visuals.
The film, as a whole, is very good. Alex Garland has created something unique, and while I am sure there will be those head scratchers who didn't 'get it,' we should celebrate this film in whatever camp we fall into. It's not often we get a piece of hard sci-fi like this - as others have mentioned, the last film in memory to compare this to is Tarkovsky's Stalker. I would also splice the same director's Solaris into the mix, as well as 2001 and Prometheus, especially around the themes of creation and evolution - the film seems to play with a Garden of Eden theology, despite the Darwinism notions of genetics. There is so much more I want to say but can't quite find the words - my head is metaphorically self-destructing as I type this - but it's a film better experienced before reading any comment or review anyway.
Shout by Lee Brown Barrow Movie BuffVIP 3BlockedParent2018-03-12T22:33:19Z
Words to describe this film: creepy, transcendent, bizarre, beautiful, original... and shimmery! Honestly, there were times when this film could have played as an effective screen saver on my tv, so elegant were the visuals.
The film, as a whole, is very good. Alex Garland has created something unique, and while I am sure there will be those head scratchers who didn't 'get it,' we should celebrate this film in whatever camp we fall into. It's not often we get a piece of hard sci-fi like this - as others have mentioned, the last film in memory to compare this to is Tarkovsky's Stalker. I would also splice the same director's Solaris into the mix, as well as 2001 and Prometheus, especially around the themes of creation and evolution - the film seems to play with a Garden of Eden theology, despite the Darwinism notions of genetics. There is so much more I want to say but can't quite find the words - my head is metaphorically self-destructing as I type this - but it's a film better experienced before reading any comment or review anyway.