Really, this is just a few good ideas and nice scenery, compromised by its utter pointlessness and inability to actually pay off. Its like several random episodes of Black Mirror with the ends cut off all stitched together in a "will this do" manner. All the stories cry out for a twist or a reveal but they all just end with "then he kills them".
Aesthetically, i cant see why a modern, dystopian Britain should be juxtaposed with a post apocalyptic, post Soviet Eastern Europe. It would have worked much better if it was the ruins of, say, Birmingham, populated with cannibals and mutants than the cliched and borderline racist depictions of Eastern Europe. (Are those cities REALLY so oppressive ? I doubt it - or at least no more than Birmingham (sorry Brum). Why perpetuate Neo-liberal myths when the rest of your film is a Neo-liberal nightmare ?
Its a shame - theres obviously talent at work here, and a visionary sensibility. Theres also two possibly good films here mashed up together into an unappealing, half baked mess.
Aesthetically, i cant see why a modern, dystopian Britain should be juxtaposed with a post apocalyptic, post Soviet Eastern Europe. It would have worked much better if it was the ruins of, say, Birmingham, populated with cannibals and mutants than the cliched and borderline racist depictions of Eastern Europe. (Are those cities REALLY so oppressive ? I doubt it - or at least no more than Birmingham (sorry Brum). Why perpetuate Neo-liberal myths when the rest of your film is a Neo-liberal nightmare ?
Its a shame - theres obviously talent at work here, and a visionary sensibility. Theres also two possibly good films here mashed up together into an unappealing, half baked mess.