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7.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

7,742

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2019

Release Year

95 min

Runtime

Drama
Science Fiction
Thriller

Overview

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

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Keywords

capitalism
survival
anarchism
secret prison
food shortage
social experiment
cautionary
ambiguous
disheartening
social dynamics

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Reviews(5)

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Leno

Leno

@fLeno

March 27, 2020

3
3/10

*don't waste your time*. Most of the movie happens in a sort of multi-floor prison where the top levels can control the food that goes to the bottom floors. This created a sort of class structure where top-levelers had pleasure on denying food to the bottom levels, although the floors were sorted pe

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Shumafuk

Shumafuk

March 27, 2020

8
8/10

A violent form of demonstration of the problems of capitalist society. Despite the fact that the level of violence is too much for me, I understand purpose of it for narration. Actually I find this film quite spiritual. The parallel between Jesus and Christian values is quite obvious.

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Manuel São Bento

@msbreviews

March 29, 2020

7
7/10

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Kamurai

Kamurai

July 22, 2020

9
9/10

A fantastic watch, will watch again, and can recommend. This is a survivalist movie, heavy with philosophy of morality. A lot of the time when I get to say anything close to that, I get to say, "but there is humor too", there is not: not traditional humor anyways. This is a dark movie filled

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Arshia Borjali

Arshia Borjali

@arshiaborjali

December 26, 2020

Rate: zero This is what happens when we build a house for a door (instead of building a house and then put doors in it); An exotic, dirty and cluttered movie. Dirty but not necessarily in the visual meaning but in the cinematic meant. The director does not know what he wants to do at all, the cam

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