How can you not have high hopes for a film that features two of the best young actors of their generation, Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan?
Moreover, this is romance, and, judging by Mescal’s works, they usually have tender feelings. Nazon and Ronan is involved in most things. They all have an earthy energy and rosy charm that undoubtedly makes them ideal co-stars and romantic leads.
So it’s a shame that Garth Davis’ sci-fi novel is unbalanced. Enemy it just doesn’t do a good job of giving these talents material or characters believable enough for them to shine.
The story takes place in the rural Midwest in 2065. Enemy This is the type of film that merely hints at its futuristic bent without overtly depicting a Jetsons-style world: much of this dusty farmland looks the same as it always has, and married couple Junior (Mezcal) and Hen (Ronan) are trying their best to be soldiers. They are going through what appears to be a serious emotional crisis in their relationship in their modest home.
Opening the title cards, the film reveals that it is a dystopian world where human labor has essentially been replaced by humanoid artificial intelligence. Shortages of food and water force people to live in space station communities, and military conscription has been introduced for those who want to work and live on space stations.
When Junior and Hen are visited by the somewhat listless, apathetic government official Terrence (Aaron Pierre), Junior learns that it is his turn – which means he will have to spend many years in the cold depths of space while his wife lives and works on the remains tied to earth. .
But Davis’s film moves sluggishly, and this emotional blow is softened by the mechanics of the too-holey plot: is this design completely arbitrary? Why does Junior need to be replaced as an AI companion for Hen while he’s away? What mysterious misfortune is haunting her before this trip? And why is it science fiction if the main plot actually has nothing to do with family problems?
The point here is that the filmmakers simply don’t buy the sci-fi premise: the world, the way of life, the people who live in it, just don’t seem real. And because he’s not particularly convincing, even Mescal and Ronan’s strong, yearning performances can’t see through the cracks in this uninteresting and boring film.
Source: I News
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