Movie Review – Chaos Walking (2021)
Directed by Doug Liman.
Starring Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Demián Bichir, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, David Oyelowo, Ray McKinnon, and Kurt Sutter.
SYNOPSIS:
A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.
The sad reality of 2021’s first card-carrying live-action blockbuster is that it’s destined to be remembered less for the content of its 109 minutes than the harried, near-decade-long quest to bring it to the screen.
After numerous personnel changes – including Charlie Kaufman taking a stab at the script in 2012 – this adaptation of Patrick Ness’ acclaimed 2008 novel “The Knife of Never Letting Go” was filmed under Doug Liman (
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The pleasures found in engaging with dystopian narratives have to do with a certain distance. While examining contemporary tendencies carried out to their intensely unpleasant conclusions, these fictions are safely removed. They give the morbidly curious various scenarios while also reassuring us that our current society, while seemingly beyond repair, could be far more worse. Author Patrick Ness took the pearl-clutching idea of humanity overloaded with information, added a dash of gender politics, and crafted the
Chaos Walking trilogy, which, after extensive delays and various creative dance partners, has finally been birthed by Ness (with co-writer Christopher Ford) and director Doug Liman (
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