The Futuristic Congress has a very interesting proposal, mixing reality and animation, in a technological utopia, the feature has a huge criticism of today's society, which values technology more than the people around it.
Directed and scripted by Ari Folman, the film is inspired by the science fiction work of the same name by Stanislaw Lem. In the plot, Robin Wright is an actress who has been famous for a long time, is now living her years of decadence in the world of cinema. In an attempt to re-highlight Robin's name, his agent Al (Harvey Keitel) arranges a meeting with the studio executive Miramount, Jeff (Danny Huston), which offers Robin the surreal opportunity to be “scanned” and in exchange for a large fortune, the actress would sell her physiognomy and acting and become a virtual actress, being owned by the studio and thus banned from acting. At first Robin rejects this proposal, but after some events with his son Aaron (Kodi Smit-McPhee) ends up accepting the crazy proposal, but changing the contract to 20 years, instead of giving the rights for life.
20 years later, the Miramount- which is now made exclusively of animations (literally made, it became a world made of animations)-, convenes a meeting of the Futuristic Congress and invites Robin. This meeting aims to change the world as we know it, and from now on, it is possible to “drink your favorite personalities” and transform into them, with a formula created by, of course, Japanese. From here, the entire film turns into animation and utopia is made.
It's a really interesting script, where it's not uncommon to see a little criticism of today's society and its abuse of technology. However, it sinned by exaggeration, becoming tiring after the second exaggeratedly absurd scene. Throughout the plot we have this controversial feeling of love and hate, where we get irritated with the exaggeration and in the next scene, we are surprised by a very well done reference or a moral lesson. A perfect example of this controversial feeling is when in the very first scene of animation, it's inevitable to think that somehow we're on LSD, and it's quickly mentioned that everything looks like a big LSD trip. The comic parts, with references to current actors, writers and scripts were very well thought out, helping the script.
The Futuristic Congress compensates for its critical content, but it is advisable to watch with an open mind and knowing that the chance of being irritated by the exaggeration at some point is high. For those who don't mind the huge journey, the work will be spectacular.
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"It's worth checking out the movie for the lesson it teaches, but keeping in mind that it will, fatally, annoy you at some point for the journey that there is in the course of it."
It didn't irritate me, so instead of a "he will", it would be more correct to be a "he can". It's a beautiful philosophical film with fantastic animation.
In fact, he is the first person who is not irritated by the film's exaggeration. I will accept the suggestion and change to a "may", as it is not a rule. Thanks for the comment and suggestion!
“It's worth checking out the movie for the lesson it teaches, but keeping in mind that it will, fatally, annoy you at some point for the journey that there is during the course of it.”
It didn't irritate me, so instead of a "he will", it would be more correct to be a "he can". It's a beautiful philosophical film with fantastic animation.