2017 · drama · sci-fi · comedy
Downsizing
Directed by Alexander Payne2h 15m2017
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Our read: Downsizing (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive drama · sci-fi · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
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