High-Rise: The Fall To Chaos
- Tavia Millward
- Jun 15, 2016
- 2 min read
High-rise the film that reminds me so much of Her. Sorry Spike Lee.
Much like Her the film takes place in retro-style future. J.G Ballard’s novel turned film adaption by Ben Wheatley show the perfection of wealth within the upper class and the lack of wealth within the lower class.
The futuristic Great Gatsby.
Dr. Robert Liang (Tom Hiddleston) is a new resident of the intriguing hi-tech apartment block built by Mr. Royal (Jeremy Irons). Living on the upper floor with the upper class, Dr Liang soon realizes that the wealthy has everything they need.
Even a supermarket. Yes, even the rich has to eat.
This supermarket looks somewhat superficial with its perfectly stacked food cans and neatly arranged bottles. It is also the one place where the lower and upper class meet. You may be rich but you still go hungry like the poor. Probably not as much as them.
High- Rise soon destroys the classing system with the building. Showing unity and separation within destruction. Each high upper class looks down at the other below. Because the rich has the right to look into the people’s lives below.
Mr. Royal is constructing other towers as well close by. That will eventually resemble the middle finger to God in my case instead of what he says a high five to the creator.
The building soon starts to have occurring power outages indicating something ominous. Slowly chaos starts to creep in. The classes begin to dissipate. Dr Liang cool- calm perfection slowly starts dissipate and with the help of Wheatley’s flashback which starts to the beginning. Dr Liang is seen a savage from the Lord of the Flies. Three months earlier we begin to see his process of becoming this insane of survival. As Dr Liang begins to mingle with the rest of riches, Charlotte (Sienna Miller), Luke Evans (Richard Wilder) and James Purefoy (Pangbourne) who seems psychologically disturbed as him. It makes you wonder if it was the case of moving into the building.
The film is like glass slowly shattering into a disaster.
The power shortages and lack of water soon gets all the resident miserable specifically the lower class. The division between classes soon dissipates has the need of power and food gets everyone. Mr. Royal not taking responsibility and hiding right up on the highest floor. The residents of High Rise soon become even more secluded while protecting the building and what is theirs. This self-inflicted isolation restores to further chaos and dark humour. As a police officer tries to enter the building which is always for the residents to leave. But he is reassured by Mr. Royal that all is well with a bribe.
High-Rise captures the chaos of human degradation in style and sly much like Fitzgerald Great Gatsby.
The Scripture says.
