HIGH-RISE DVD REVIEW...
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Good Morning Lovelies,
As soon as I came back from Dublin I decided to work out and
watch a film at the same time. For this session I stuck on the film High-Rise,
a feature I had waited a long time to finally get to see, after looking forward
to it for months.
Starring Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Moss, Luke Evans, Sienna
Miller and Jeremy Irons, the film follows Hiddleston’s character Dr. Robert
Laing as he moves into a new apartment block which houses everything inside.
From a swimming complex to a supermarket, the residents have no reason to leave
where they live.
However that is not a good thing. The characters find it
hard to make their lives adapt to the building and there is a sense of madness
from the get go. However this madness turns into beauty. The film uses the
craziness of the characters’ lives to make tear inducing shots of pure stunning
viewing.
Ben Wheatley has a way of making British cinema stand out
and his latest adventure will definitely stick with all of those that are in
the film. Hiddleston has never played a role like this, but Wheatley has
allowed for him to showcase his many talents. As he also does with Evans and
Miller.
There is a sense throughout watching that Wheatley has
cleverly made it seem as though the film is a trip. A drug induced place that
many associate with their time in the 70s. It is also as if the apartment is
heaven.
Irons’ character is God and everyone answers to him, while
Hiddleston and the other members in the block are the faces of those that
follow him. Wheatley has made a film that captures so many interpretations that
it is hard to actually stick with one. Everything in every scene just goes out
of the window.
All thoughts must be left at the door. All moments of
thinking you know something must be left behind and changed. There is no
thought process to it like other films. There is no character in which you root
for or get behind. There is just a sense of this world being unreal and the
people in it being confined to madness that is hard to imagine.
Wheatley has a way of making his characters hateable but
also watchable. You want to know more about them. What they think, feel or need
to survive. You need to know how on earth they are going to get out of it. And
in this case the characters get out of it in the weirdest ways imaginable.
It is a film to leave all senses and reasonable thoughts
behind. It is a film to be watched and enjoyed because of the sheer talent,
beauty and ideas in it. Just don’t expect to come away with a solid thought for
a while, because you will be trying to work it out long after you see it.
High-Rise has really earned itself this…
4 Stars
Blog Soon,
Joey X
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