Movies NEON Presents: 2073

[SoberChef]

 

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

[SoberChef]

The more I've thought about this, could be NEON's 'Civil War'. I do not hate that potential. Also, the lead, Samantha Morton, any time I've been lucky enough to see a project she's in, she just does such a tremendous job, no matter the role. The Messenger (itself a true quality film surrounding a tough AF job in the military & starring Ben freaking Foster!), Under the Skin, John Carter, Minority Report, & even her run as Alpha in Walking Dead (the prequel episode was quite good that she's in.)

[Greatoneshere]

Samantha Morton is always great but I'm not so sure on co-writer/director Asif Kapadia. His documentaries are great (Standard Operating Procedure, Senna, Amy and Federer: Twelve Final Days) but his regular movies are all over the place: The Warrior and Ali & Nino are two pretty good films, but The Return, Far North and Creature all look like they got lambasted by audiences and critics. Hard to say where this one will land as a result.