Equals (2015)
Country: US/INDO
Technical: col 101m
Director: Drake Doremus
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce
Synopsis:
What is left of civilisation on Earth has become an affectless utopia in which food, housing and employment are provided, but emotional engagement is winnowed out in favour of finding answers in outer space. An illustrator and text writer fall in love when one of them recognises in the other the signs of 'switched-on syndrome'.
Review:
We have been here before, of course: Gattaca, Equilibrium, The Island, etc., but Doremus goes for a far more toned down mise-en-scène and under-hyped narrative set-up. The palette is all gauzy blues and greys, there is so little climate of surveillance one wonders why it doesn't happen more often, and the lovers are a pallid pair whose passion all but inevitably wants chemistry. That said, as an exercise in style it has a certain single mindedness about it, even if the Invasion of the Body Snatchers frisson at the end is not sustained.
Country: US/INDO
Technical: col 101m
Director: Drake Doremus
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce
Synopsis:
What is left of civilisation on Earth has become an affectless utopia in which food, housing and employment are provided, but emotional engagement is winnowed out in favour of finding answers in outer space. An illustrator and text writer fall in love when one of them recognises in the other the signs of 'switched-on syndrome'.
Review:
We have been here before, of course: Gattaca, Equilibrium, The Island, etc., but Doremus goes for a far more toned down mise-en-scène and under-hyped narrative set-up. The palette is all gauzy blues and greys, there is so little climate of surveillance one wonders why it doesn't happen more often, and the lovers are a pallid pair whose passion all but inevitably wants chemistry. That said, as an exercise in style it has a certain single mindedness about it, even if the Invasion of the Body Snatchers frisson at the end is not sustained.
Country: US/INDO
Technical: col 101m
Director: Drake Doremus
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce
Synopsis:
What is left of civilisation on Earth has become an affectless utopia in which food, housing and employment are provided, but emotional engagement is winnowed out in favour of finding answers in outer space. An illustrator and text writer fall in love when one of them recognises in the other the signs of 'switched-on syndrome'.
Review:
We have been here before, of course: Gattaca, Equilibrium, The Island, etc., but Doremus goes for a far more toned down mise-en-scène and under-hyped narrative set-up. The palette is all gauzy blues and greys, there is so little climate of surveillance one wonders why it doesn't happen more often, and the lovers are a pallid pair whose passion all but inevitably wants chemistry. That said, as an exercise in style it has a certain single mindedness about it, even if the Invasion of the Body Snatchers frisson at the end is not sustained.