My rating for this movie is based on the substance, which seems to take place in the near future, and is a frightening glimpse of where we could be headed soon. It has an eerie feel to it, sort of Blade Runner-esque, but only on the first steps down the path to dystopia rather than at the full-blown end. Self-driving cars are now available, a huge poison corporation has an even tighter grip on the food supply, 'agricultural' drones have become weaponized and autonomous (AI).
There is a horrible chemical/ag company (much like Monsanto in our world) which has branched out into drones that can dispense poison autonomously (just what we need...) and even use high-powered RF radiation to blast 'pests.' A bunch of farmers have come down with mysterious cases of cancer and birth defects, and there is a dawning realization in the main characters of what is going on.
The acting is very fitting for this- just normal people trying to get by in an even bleaker world than we have currently (due to huge droughts worldwide causing famines) as they piece together the seemingly unrelated murders, sicknesses, and other things and confront monstrous corporate villains (especially the woman, who is especially evil).
Sure, there are some things they did not explore, such as the hackability of the self-driving cars. But they picked a manageable collection of things (ag poisons, drones, AI, RF as a weapon, loneliness and disconnectedness, corporate malfeasance and profit-mongering) and wove them together into an eerie, slow-burn thriller with alarming elements of current-day truth. Honestly, I hope Monsanto/Bayer do not see this movie because they might get some ideas...
There is a horrible chemical/ag company (much like Monsanto in our world) which has branched out into drones that can dispense poison autonomously (just what we need...) and even use high-powered RF radiation to blast 'pests.' A bunch of farmers have come down with mysterious cases of cancer and birth defects, and there is a dawning realization in the main characters of what is going on.
The acting is very fitting for this- just normal people trying to get by in an even bleaker world than we have currently (due to huge droughts worldwide causing famines) as they piece together the seemingly unrelated murders, sicknesses, and other things and confront monstrous corporate villains (especially the woman, who is especially evil).
Sure, there are some things they did not explore, such as the hackability of the self-driving cars. But they picked a manageable collection of things (ag poisons, drones, AI, RF as a weapon, loneliness and disconnectedness, corporate malfeasance and profit-mongering) and wove them together into an eerie, slow-burn thriller with alarming elements of current-day truth. Honestly, I hope Monsanto/Bayer do not see this movie because they might get some ideas...