High-Rise

2016 • 118 Minuten

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Tom Hiddleston stars as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst society’s upper class. Laing quickly settles in and meets the other tenants: Charlotte (Sienna Miller), a bohemian single mother; Wilder (Luke Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Elisabeth Moss); and Mr. Royal (Jeremy Irons), the building’s enigmatic architect. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But, as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, mainly on the lower floors, social strata begins to crumble and the building descends into a class war.

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In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the ascent of man is symbolized by the rising of the bone-weapon into the sky, that turns into man's later achievement of a satellite in space. In High-Rise, the film adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel about class warfare in a state-of-the-art building that loses electrical power, a child's scoop of chocolate ice cream plummets from a balcony onto the windshield of a parked car, reversing the glorious evolution in Kubrick's work: The modern children have flung feces.

This film started out to be very visually interesting, but the story seemed extremely disjointed. It appeared to attempt to be a heady metaphor about class and society but really seemed to just be a collection of absurd scenes with no real substance overall. This definitely was not my cup of tea. If you like naked Tom Hiddleston, boobs, bloody people, awkward scores, and dark undertones of society and the upper-class eating itself alive you might like this movie. If not, you'd be better off skipping this one.

The movie for the most part followed the book but had a few key differences in layout and characters. The movie was also a bit hard to follow for those who might not have read the book to begin with. Overall though it was brilliantly acted and directed for a very hard movie to film. I just wish that they chose to keep Ballard's original ideas in place rather than cut and paste various scenes together. I feel like the key elements were lost this way. Also the characters were never fully developed in the film