It is actually funny that I'm starting a new destination of my blog with this review. I like capitalism for the two things. Firstly, for how closer it makes people to each other. You have to communicate with others to get the best goods. Secondly, capitalism is a model that produces the highest efficiency in economy. James Ballard wrote a book "High-Rise" to show people the other angle of the things I just have told about.
The movie is trying to put viewers into the vortex of their misunderstanding the life itself. People are fighting for the food in the supermarket. The "noble" and rich woman is proposing to have sex on the ground to anyone in the crowd. A guy is frying dog on the skewer. Perfect social nightmare caused by the domination of market. Ben Wheatley, who has directed the movie, was trying to convey an atmosphere of the book, where human nature was terribly changing just because of some problems with electricity.
In my opinion, the main concept of this movie is lying in the assumption that society, where rich people have power to do anything they want and poor ones are limited in their possibilities just by money, intends to be cruel and mad. The central character of the story is typical middle-class doctor, who is satisfied with the life in such a strange place. If you understand the author's logic, his satisfaction is obvious. You don't need to fight with poor people and don't have to make pressure on the rich. In some way, High-Rise is the small model of capitalistic society with all the problems it has, but in hyperbolised form.
The last thought is rather important. Ballard and Wheatley overrated the negative influence of the market and showed us some form of "perverse capitalism", where people are not trying to communicate and prefer primitive ways of getting what they want. In fact, this makes you feel some irrealistic disgust to the film. Real life is surely not so optimistic and capitalism is not so fair as you can think I'm trying to show you, but it is certainly better than in "High-Rise"
The movie is trying to put viewers into the vortex of their misunderstanding the life itself. People are fighting for the food in the supermarket. The "noble" and rich woman is proposing to have sex on the ground to anyone in the crowd. A guy is frying dog on the skewer. Perfect social nightmare caused by the domination of market. Ben Wheatley, who has directed the movie, was trying to convey an atmosphere of the book, where human nature was terribly changing just because of some problems with electricity.
In my opinion, the main concept of this movie is lying in the assumption that society, where rich people have power to do anything they want and poor ones are limited in their possibilities just by money, intends to be cruel and mad. The central character of the story is typical middle-class doctor, who is satisfied with the life in such a strange place. If you understand the author's logic, his satisfaction is obvious. You don't need to fight with poor people and don't have to make pressure on the rich. In some way, High-Rise is the small model of capitalistic society with all the problems it has, but in hyperbolised form.
The last thought is rather important. Ballard and Wheatley overrated the negative influence of the market and showed us some form of "perverse capitalism", where people are not trying to communicate and prefer primitive ways of getting what they want. In fact, this makes you feel some irrealistic disgust to the film. Real life is surely not so optimistic and capitalism is not so fair as you can think I'm trying to show you, but it is certainly better than in "High-Rise"
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