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Week of September 4, 2015
There are no workweeks in a dystopian future. First up…
Mad Max: Fury Road
The ironic thing about teenage girls embracing the idea of a
post-apocalyptic world is that, in one, they would all be sex-slaves.
An outcome the anti-heroes in this action movie would like
to preclude.
When Furiosa (Charlize Theron) flees from his fortress with
five of his breeding wives, Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and his foot
soldiers follow them into the nuclear wasteland to reclaim his unborn
offspring.
Partaking in the pursuit is a dutiful lackey (Nicholas
Hoult) driving a death-mobile outfitted with a prisoner Max (Tom Hardy), who
later goes on to help Furiosa and her cargo reach the fabled Green Place.
A non-stop car-chase with explicit violence and nightmarish
monster trucks, set against an arid color-saturated landscape, this fourth installment
in the Mad Max franchise is an accessible, over-the-top, visceral experience
with unexpected environmental and feminist undertones.
Incidentally, driving recklessly at high speeds is only
acceptable on long-weekends. Green Light
Good Kill
The good thing about drones is they give little people
pilots the chance to show their stuff.
Oops, apparently the tiny aircraft in this drama are
completely unmanned.
With the advent of unmanned aerial vehicles, Air Force pilot
Major Egan has found himself obsolete.
Resigned to guiding the drones and initiating launch
commands, Egan feels unsettled in domestic bliss with his wife (January Jones),
longing to return to action.
When the CIA starts assigning the missions, Egan loses even
more of his integrity.
Troubled by remote images of a Taliban soldier raping a
servant woman, the ex-pilot tail spins out of control.
One of few war films to confront the cowardly notion of drone
strikes, and their effect on the soldier pressing the button, Good Kill
features some good performances and poses some valid questions.
In fact, the only people who can thwart these evil drones
are R/C aircraft hobbyists. Green Light
***Eugenically Altered***
Gattaca
Before DNA testing came along everyone was guilty of
whatever they were accused of.
Thankfully, the advanced culture in this sci-fi movie has
complete control over everyone’s genes.
Two brothers are born into a speculative future where
eugenics weeds out the Invalids: Vincent (Ethan Hawke) is conceived naturally,
while Anton (Loren Dean) has his DNA manipulated making him a Valid.
While Anton becomes a cop, Vincent is a janitor at an
aerospace company where he meets an injured highborn (Jude Law), who allows him
to use his DNA to assume his identity.
But when a murder’s committed and Vincent’s DNA is found at
the scene, Jerome must keep his detective brother from uncovering the truth.
Smart without being pretentious, thought provoking without
being preachy, Gattaca presents a possible future that doesn’t seem too
impossible.
Besides, if parents could design their ideal baby then future
races would have no mouths or butt-holes.
He’s a Designer Baby Daddy. He’s the…
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