What happens if future parents have to be approved to have children?
Rich flowerS Director of director “The assessment“Paints a picture of a dystopian future where couples must be considered worth carrying children. Alicia Vikander stars as the decisive factor in this equation; Elizabeth Olsen And Himesh Patel may be the parents to be.
The official synopsis reads: “Mia (Olsen) and Aaryan (Patel) are a successful couple who hope to become parents in the near future where resources are extremely limited and the government keeps firm control over reproduction. They are assigned an assessor named Virginia (Vikander), who moves into their home for seven days to evaluate if they deserve to move on in their parent trip. What Mia and Aaryan hope is a routine test that is quickly admitted into a psychological nightmare and forces them to question the very foundation of their society and what it really means to be human. ”
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Music video Helmer Fortuné leads from a script by John Donnelly. The function premiered at TIFF 2024.
Olsen customs Winding that it film was a “beautiful, different, quiet in a way, version of dystopia.” Olsen said: “There is a lot of absurd humor and situations in the film. (…) The humor makes it more worrying. ”
The Indieview review For the “assessment”, Fortuné and Kinematographer Magnus Jønck credited for “Immersive World Building (and) Eco-Space-Age” feeling.
“The futuristic background becomes a canvas to explore one of the oldest ideas in human history: the often frustrating limitations in central planning,” the review states. Would be authoritarians for both the benign and genocide variants, for a long time, saliva has at the view that if only a smart person had to make a decision for a whole society from above, would choose who’s life and who is working and who earns, all annoying conflicts and inefficiency in modern life would be whispered away. Of course, it never really works in that way, and the “assessment” makes convincing that some stages of life are far too intimate for any government to regulate in the name of efficiency. ”
“The assessment” premieres March 21 in theaters from Magnolia Pictures. Check out the trailer below.
