This movie has haunted me since I first saw it yesterday- so much so that I went and immediately watched it again once it was over, something I never do. As a fan of the source material I was super excited for this film but also nervous - about the cast (Natalie Portman would have been my LAST choice to play the main character), about how they would adapt the books visuals, the tone, whether or not they would dumb down the story, how faithful it would be- and, for the most part, this movie exceeds with flying colours.
First thing's first- this movie does not follow the book very closely. This is fine. I don't go to the movies to see things I expect, I go to be surprised, impressed, whisked away by a director's vision. At many points in this film, I was all three. As it turns out, Natalie Portman is awesome in this. She actually plays a character, and not just Natalie Portman as I expected. She plays it differently from the protagonist of the book but again, that is fine, and she gets it a LOT closer than I would have expected. This is an interesting, flawed person wracked with guilt who's smart but selfish, somewhat of a loner but looking for human connection. The rest of the cast is also great, especially Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gina Rodriguez - what starts out as a typical "badass smart-talkin' lesbian" character gives way to something much darker and sadder as the movie progresses.
The visuals are (with the exception of a few shots that look overlit and some general unnecessary lens-flare) outstanding and consistently inventive. The score is really unexpected - haunting guitar riffs and strings that slowly become distorted, with a couple great uses of the Crosby, Stills & Nash song "Helplessly Hoping", and completely different from how most sci-fi and horror films are scored. The plot is relatively slow but it pays off in sinking you into the story's atmosphere and letting you spend time with these people and showing you their flaws. Mostly, this is a film about deformity and self-destruction, in both humans and the natural world. Cells divide and mutate, organisms evolve and people change and implode on themselves, all turned into a literal body-horror story about lifeforms merging with their environment. This was in the subtext of the novel, but here it becomes a unifying thesis statement.
As for flaws, there are a few lines of exposition that feel clunky and go on a sentence or two longer than necessary. There are some minor dumb decisions made by characters (there's a scene where a door is open that any logical human being would have closed) and the second act tends to drag a bit. Personally, I would have liked to see some more body-horror elements and a bit more gore, but that is minimized to make you wonder just how much of it is really happening or is just a psychological manifestation of the characters, so I can't really call it a flaw. Overall, this is a deeply unsettling, beautiful film about human weakness in the face of the unknown and our own ingrained self-destructive tendencies in our work, our relationships and in how we relate to the world around us
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First thing's first- this movie does not follow the book very closely. This is fine. I don't go to the movies to see things I expect, I go to be surprised, impressed, whisked away by a director's vision. At many points in this film, I was all three. As it turns out, Natalie Portman is awesome in this. She actually plays a character, and not just Natalie Portman as I expected. She plays it differently from the protagonist of the book but again, that is fine, and she gets it a LOT closer than I would have expected. This is an interesting, flawed person wracked with guilt who's smart but selfish, somewhat of a loner but looking for human connection. The rest of the cast is also great, especially Jennifer Jason Leigh and Gina Rodriguez - what starts out as a typical "badass smart-talkin' lesbian" character gives way to something much darker and sadder as the movie progresses.
The visuals are (with the exception of a few shots that look overlit and some general unnecessary lens-flare) outstanding and consistently inventive. The score is really unexpected - haunting guitar riffs and strings that slowly become distorted, with a couple great uses of the Crosby, Stills & Nash song "Helplessly Hoping", and completely different from how most sci-fi and horror films are scored. The plot is relatively slow but it pays off in sinking you into the story's atmosphere and letting you spend time with these people and showing you their flaws. Mostly, this is a film about deformity and self-destruction, in both humans and the natural world. Cells divide and mutate, organisms evolve and people change and implode on themselves, all turned into a literal body-horror story about lifeforms merging with their environment. This was in the subtext of the novel, but here it becomes a unifying thesis statement.
As for flaws, there are a few lines of exposition that feel clunky and go on a sentence or two longer than necessary. There are some minor dumb decisions made by characters (there's a scene where a door is open that any logical human being would have closed) and the second act tends to drag a bit. Personally, I would have liked to see some more body-horror elements and a bit more gore, but that is minimized to make you wonder just how much of it is really happening or is just a psychological manifestation of the characters, so I can't really call it a flaw. Overall, this is a deeply unsettling, beautiful film about human weakness in the face of the unknown and our own ingrained self-destructive tendencies in our work, our relationships and in how we relate to the world around us
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