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High-Rise
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High-Rise is a 2015 British thriller directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Elisabeth Moss. The screenplay by Amy Jump is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard.The film centres around a tower block that is insulated from the outside world. As the infrastructure fails and tensions between the lower and upper floors escalate, the residents become violent and the situation spirals out of control. | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: The checkout girl learns perfect french, just weeks after Laing gives her a French study book. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Royal designed the building to be a "crucible for change". He was not wrong... | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Throughout the film, but particularly notable moments of this include Cosgrove's Death by Irony as seen below and Laing eating the dog at the start of the film. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
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Ludd Was Right: The film and the novel to a greater extent criticise a dependency on technology. As soon as the tenants are cut off from it, they start unravelling. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation: In the film, the event that motivates Laing to move to the high rise is the death of his sisternote offscreen before the events of the film, however in the book she already lives in the high rise, and is the one who invites Laing to move there after he divorces his wife, which is the event that motivates him to instead of his sister's death. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: This happens to an entire building! | |
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Kill the Poor | |
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Kill the Poor: The penthouse's solution to the unrest in the building. Dispose of the riff raff on the lower floors and turn their flats into more amenities for the elite. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Wilder was this, but he's lost his edge. He gets it back though, as the building descends into chaos. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Most, if not all of the characters, go from normal people to cartoonish maniacs. | |
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Rooftop Confrontation | |
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Rooftop Confrontation: Wilder finally meets Royal in his rooftop penthouse garden. it doesn't end well for either of them. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: After Laing convinces Munroe he has a terminal brain tumour, a chaotic party and too much alcohol sends him leaping to his death. | |
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Everybody Smokes | |
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Everybody Smokes: 80% of the scenes feature smoking! Well, it was The '70s... | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs: A very physical example, when the building's infrastructure breaks down. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
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Children Are Innocent: Despite the horrific acts committed by the adults, the children are depicted only as victims. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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Death by Irony: After Cosgrove the newsreader is murdered, Steele keeps the body in his apartment and places a broken TV on his head so that his face is always on the screen. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: When asked where his father is, Toby simply points upward... | |
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CozyCatastrophe | |
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Cozy Catastrophe: By the end of the film, Laing seems to accept his way of life in the now mostly derelict building, saying to himself that what just happened will be repeated with the next tower when it opens. | |
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While Rome Burns | |
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While Rome Burns: The upper floor residents, including Royal, deny things are going pear-shaped at first. Royal in particular dismisses the power outages as "teething problems". | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Helen, who smokes, drinks and does drugs despite being nine months pregnant. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
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Avenging the Villain After shooting Royal, Wilder is stabbed repeatedly by his harem of female companions. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: A big one toward Margaret Thatcher at the end of the film. To be precise, it's a broadcast of her 1976 "state capitalism" speech. | |
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Big Blackout | |
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Big Blackout: Power outages set off a chain of events that plunge the building into chaos. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: All the signage is Eurostile/Microgramma Bold Extended, the futuristic typeface made popular by 2001: A Space Odyssey to hint that the tenants are similarly doomed explorers in a new frontier. | |
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Interplay of Sex and Violence | |
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Interplay of Sex and Violence: Monroe's jump to his death is juxtaposed with Laing letting loose by dancing at a lower class party and the elites having a lot of drugs and sex at theirs. | |
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French | |
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Everything Sounds Sexier in French: Laing picks up a book on learning French, but gives it away to the supermarket clerk. She spends the rest of the film speaking unsubtitled French. | |
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Reduced to Ratburgers | |
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Reduced to Ratburgers: Well, dog food, a pet horse and dog. There's plenty of booze though! | |
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TheSeventies | |
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The '70s: More moustaches and sideburns than you can shake a stick at. And the British Leyland cars, too. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: ABBA's "S.O.S.". It appears in a string quartet arrangement (which eventually and anachronistically gains drums) during the 18th century costume party held by the elite of the building. Long after the building has descended into full chaos, a dark, downtempo version by Portishead plays. | |
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