Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, Keeley Hawes, Sienna Guillory, Reece Shearsmith, James Purefoy, Stacy Martin, Alexandra Weaver | Based on the Novel by Jg Ballard | Screenplay by Amy Jump | Directed by Ben Wheatley
First we’re given a glimpse at the end of the story we’re about to see unfold: Tom Hiddleston’s neurosurgeon Robert Laing, calmly sifting through the filth-strewn hallways of his tower block, encountering a dead man with a TV smashed over his head and cooking a dog’s leg. This is director Ben Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump’s subtle way of telling us that this isn’t where we’re going as a society, despite High-Rise ostensibly being a period piece; it’s where we are right now, and we better get comfortable.
Discomfort is the main order of the day, though, as Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg...
First we’re given a glimpse at the end of the story we’re about to see unfold: Tom Hiddleston’s neurosurgeon Robert Laing, calmly sifting through the filth-strewn hallways of his tower block, encountering a dead man with a TV smashed over his head and cooking a dog’s leg. This is director Ben Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump’s subtle way of telling us that this isn’t where we’re going as a society, despite High-Rise ostensibly being a period piece; it’s where we are right now, and we better get comfortable.
Discomfort is the main order of the day, though, as Wheatley’s adaptation of Jg...
- 10/8/2015
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
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