Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
Armand
a dystopia. not different by many others, under the same George Orwell mark. but fascinating for its special beauty. dark, cold, ashes atmosphere, a story about a kind of ghosts or zombies, almost an experiment with any success ambition. a film about future like a very simple puzzle. few elements, an unusual hero, crumbs of sexuality, pieces from Brazil. not real convincing, it is only a question from a long evening, warning about technology and one of that stories about nothing who, after their end, remains a confuse collection of memories with role of emotions. the strange beauty is the basic virtue of film. and that could be all. or, only , the beginning to see again.
tieman64
"Metropia" is a weak animated science fiction film by Swedish director Tarik Saleh. Shot on a low budget, the film eschews conventional animation in favour for a style in which photographs and cards are scanned into a computer and given primitive movements. The style's been compared to Yuriy Norshteyn, but Norshteyn's work is on a whole other level. "Metropia" is mostly retro scifi, filled with the usual trappings of dystopian fiction (Owell, Huxley etc).The plot? In the near future, everywhere in Europe is linked by hi-speed rail. The world is running out of oil and a cartel of shady rulers keep the populace duped with hallucinogens, spiked water and mind-altering shampoo. The idea is that certain products "brainwash" consumers into buying certain products, and that a sophisticated network of "brain hijackers" are used to convince certain people that they're hearing voices or going crazy. Those targeted by the "brain hijackers" are typically those who have uncovered the future society's grizzly conspiracy.The film's first act is wonderfully mysterious, filled with wordless stalking scenes, nods to Hitchcock and slow POV shots. Convention quickly sets in, though, and by the twenty minute mark things become wholly predictable. Saleh's character designs have been praised by some, but largely detract from the film. They look like talking balloons.5/10 - Worth one viewing.
the_wolf_imdb
I do love dystopia movies, but they must be stylish, intelligent and powerful. This movie is only stylish and not in great manner. It is slow, visually and thematically very depressing. This could be acceptable - think "1984" style visuals.Unfortunately the plot is very stupid and bizarre. I mean - it has no sense, even remotely. There is a bit of pro-multi-culti propaganda, a bit of economical nonsense and a whole lot of total mind control nonsense. The movie never tries to explain anything, it actually only builds one layer of depression over another. It leads to nowhere, you will never know why the persons are doing what they are doing.In the end it is way too boring to watch and its message is too unclear. You know, if you want to make good dystopia movie, you should something important to say - like in Blade Runner or Soylent Green. It is not enough to make story about "how big corporations are bad" and "everyone has boring job" and "everyone wears gray clothes" to make even acceptable movie.
Charles Herold (cherold)
I love the look of this movie. It looks like they took photographs, made the heads bigger than the body and the eyes bigger than they should be and animated the result. It is purposely non-fluid and wonderfully conveys a grim, claustrophobic quality. I also thought the basic premise was cool, but I'm going to put in a spoiler section to complain about how little sense it made, ultimately.********* SPOILER SECTION BELOW ************ In the movie, the protagonist hears a voice speaking paranoid thoughts. For example, it tells him his girlfriend might be cheating on him. But he doesn't feel they are his own thoughts. Is he going crazy? It's a cool idea, and it's cool to discover that as a matter of fact he is not going crazy; a corporation has developed a shampoo that allows operatives to use people's brain for communicating and receiving, meaning you can see what is happening in someone's life and comment on it through a microphone that broadcasts into their brain.That's awesome, but here's the problem: why is the guy on the microphone telling the protagonist his girlfriend is cheating on him and other paranoid thoughts? He's not a sadist, so he's not just doing it to be mean. Presumably this is his job. But it appears that the shampoos purpose is actually for mind control, to convince people to buy certain products or vote certain ways, so how is this goal achieved? The filmmakers seem to have liked the idea of someone broadcasting paranoid thoughts into someone else's brain to the point where they didn't care if it made any sense in terms of the story, and that annoyed me. But I still thought it was a cool movie.
