"They could have done more with it" comes to mind, especially a film about bio engineering and futurist regeneration of the cryogenically suspended dead. The film falls flat because well, it isn't the wild and creative film futurism of old, of 90s cyberpunk or great Scifi,
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Simply put, this is the type of future envisioned by a bugman, or bugwoman or bugperson (Trudeau I hope your reading this haha). The film was really insular and myopic, tied together by some fated romance that had no point to it, other than to make up for the lack of profunditypic.twitter.com/GECZf1wyhO
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By installing an immanent and humanist profundity, that of romance, but not even that. The reason it is myopic is because like all hipsters and bugpeople that run Hollywood, there is no "outside view" apart from the main character, no discussion even of the outside world
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Apart from the "cool gadgets that can download your thoughts and memories! Wow!" There is just a sense that humanity is unchanged apart from a better version of the present, a big long now, like all hipsters at the end of history (the main character in this present time is one)
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There is just a more hedonistic and "tooootally equal" and more tech-materialistic version of western liberal society now. The media and the corporatocracy still run things in the future too, where the human engineering company's stocks are dictated by PR.pic.twitter.com/jc3mrNBLD7
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This is why the film is bug-scifi, it's the ultra materialist idea of human perfection, "immanentizing the eschaton" as voegelin said. In the future people don't even have relationships, there is genetically enhanced designer kids you dictate, and mass orgy "sex groups", nopic.twitter.com/fLgqcxhw45
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Affection or realistic struggle on a spiritual level, a libertine urbanite's version of "progress", no heroic cyberpunk hero. Oh and there seems to be no questioning of the future since the main character embraces it, but realizes the mistake of living in such a way, oh but hepic.twitter.com/uashAxy2wl
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Can't off himself for some reason (genius!) because he's like, his life is corporate intellectual property?...half way through we are even solidified in the base materialism and cognitivism of the film by the main character going through this rick and morty tier anti-metaphysicspic.twitter.com/omrLpfefWz
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Rant that has all the emerging lifeforms and animals in the cinematography reminiscent of an Attenborough doc, again, like all recent Hollywood piles of weaponized ideological cinema, the filmography attempts a pretentious and smug profundity in the place of genuine higher ends.pic.twitter.com/wB70X0jwx6
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All in all, it is a stale and played out concept, and with the litany of other SciFi and futurist Hollywood monstrosities in the works, expect more celluloid nihilist cultural programming in the future. RANT OUT!pic.twitter.com/CzvOu4Zvqm
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