Downsizing

I want to see this filmed by Wes Anderson! An engaging start takes the audience into an original film world promising unique viewing experiences, but then the creators resort to resolving some interesting issues in a way I didn’t really care for. It is not a case of wasted potential of an extraordinary film event, just a film event for a group of viewers I don’t belong to. Christoph Waltz’s Dušan amused me. I hope he’ll be discovered by the Coen brothers in The Big Lebowski type of comedy! (01/24/2018)

A great premise that initially made me feel as if I was watching something by the director Frank Oz. It is appropriately off-the-wall, crazy, and features a number of great actors. I didn’t actually laugh, but it was oozing with great ideas, which could be expected from a movie like this. With time the story started to evolve (especially in Norway) into a pretty strange something, which is trying to give its point global importance and educate us about the topic of the current population of the Earth. Over time I started to question what the creators actually wanted to convey, and I ended up questioning what they were actually trying to achieve. It stopped making sense to me. And if it wasn’t for the final “earthquake” I wouldn’t even laugh. In the end, I was glad that I ended up at three stars. It could have been worse, even though I didn’t think so in the beginning. (10/02/2018)

I had a little trouble with Alexander Payne every time. The main characters of his stories are always looking for the meaning of life, their salvation, or a new goal, and usually go in endless circles while I often shake my head at how their situation somehow resolves itself. Downsizing is a shock to me for that reason. The main character actively tries to solve his unhappy situation each time, helps others (often by accident or unwillingly), and is constantly moving forward in peculiar directions. In addition, the topics that Payne and Jim Taylor stitched together are such a mess that I could hardly keep up with the necessary moods and settings. Ecology, marriage crises, migration, overpopulation, sci-fi tangents, harmony with nature, the wealthy, loneliness, dead ends of the future. And each time with an abundance of details. This story has everything, and its conflicting reception clearly shows that maybe there is too much for the audience. However, thanks to the presence of about ten familiar favorite faces in the smallest roles, I consider myself one of the most satisfied. (01/11/2018)

A grey movie with a great idea (shrinking people) that actually ended up being something secondary. You can tell a story like that even in a normally large setting. It will be colorless the same way. A classic about how an internally dissatisfied man comes to happiness, all it takes is for his wife to kick him in the ass and for him to find an Eastern European friend... 50%. (04/28/2020)

A cute positive drama and a freshly startling conceptualization of a seemingly spectacular sci-fi subject devoted to a completely common man (as if Matt Damon is slowly taking over from Tom Hanks) and his completely ordinary worries. Alexander Payne wrote and filmed it his way, the trailers hardly divulged everything, so there is no lack of surprises, the humor is very enjoyable, Rolfe Kent's music is addictive and Christoph Waltz is totally great. If something was missing for me, then it was that Laura Dern had only a small role... But then again, she was there for a while at least. (01/24/2018)