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- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Summary Years into a benevolent alien occupation, mankind is still adjusting to its new overlords. Their technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When two teenagers discover the aliens are fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestre...
Directed By: Cory Finley
Written By: M.T. Anderson, Cory Finley
- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Landscape with Invisible Hand
53
5.4
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Summary Years into a benevolent alien occupation, mankind is still adjusting to its new overlords. Their technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When two teenagers discover the aliens are fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestre...
Directed By: Cory Finley
Written By: M.T. Anderson, Cory Finley
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
53
35% Positive
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8 Reviews
61% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
4% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
53
35% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
61% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It's an incisive, intriguing, and ultimately moving look at America's ongoing socioeconomic collapse: The whole "kids streaming their first slow dance" thing is just one aspect of this rich and nuanced drama.
Although Finley, who previously directed the Emmy-winning Hugh Jackman drama “Bad Education,” doesn’t quite manage to sustain the film’s irreverent energy, especially during its more melancholic second half, he handily succeeds in delivering a piece of entertainment that is at once wildly out of this world and all-too-relevantly down to earth.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.4
29% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
57% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.4
29% Positive
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
57% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
14% Negative
1 Rating
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A near perfect exploration of art, love, family, and the postmodern cooption of. I do not understand the lackluster response to this movie. This is scifi satire at its best and most cutting. I've seen folks say that its muddled, but I find it very cohesive. It brings up a lot of issues, sure. It ties them together without fail. Beyond that, it is BEAUTIFUL. Well acted. Funny and sad and compelling.
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Não há muito tempo para desenvolver o cenário apocalíptico, e toda a explicação fica por conta das legendas e dos quadros de arte, que resumidamente situam o espectador no cenário desolador de um mundo tomado pelas máquinas. E aí que entram os nossos jovens protagonistas, com destaque para o olhar doce de Asante Blackk e seu talento em criar arte mesmo nesse cenário de caos. Landscape with Invisible Hand, de Cory Finley, portanto, não é apenas uma obra cinematográfica; é uma exploração intrincada do papel da arte em nossa sociedade contemporânea, levando-nos a refletir sobre a autenticidade em um mundo cada vez mais dominado por influências digitais, uma vez que a Terra passar a ser controlada por extraterrestres que levam a sério o controle mediante uso de tecnologias, inclusive em programas educacionais. Talvez aí esteja um ponto de fragilidade no filme, pois não sabemos exatamente quem são esses extraterrestres, suas motivações, e como a história irá, no segundo ato, aproximar os humanos a eles, o filme acaba por revelar um problema de empatia à situação. No entanto, em se tratando da construção do protagonista, o filme cresce. O garoto está com uma simpatia incrível, e o filme consegue lhe impor personalidade, o que favorece, por exemplo, assistirmos ao seu romance, ponto crucial de virada da narrativa. Ele se encontra envolvido em um jogo complexo de relações, onde a autenticidade torna-se um fio condutor, não só da sua própria arte, mas dos coadjuvantes que se envolvem com ele (infelizmente nem todos os personagens são interessantes, por exemplo, o núcleo familiar da namorada é inserido com certo desleixo). Falando da arte, seja ela visual, sonora ou cinematográfica, emerge como uma expressão intrínseca da identidade humana. Finley utiliza a trama para questionar como a tecnologia pode moldar e, ao mesmo tempo, distorcer essa autenticidade. A metáfora visual da paisagem invisível representa não apenas a tecnologia que permeia a narrativa, mas também as camadas ocultas da experiência humana. A arte, nesse contexto, torna-se uma forma de desvelar o invisível, de revelar a verdade subjacente por trás da fachada digital. É uma forma de falar sobre poder, de gritar ao mundo, e que está, por hora, inacessível nas inteligências artificiais ou não humanas. Os personagens, muitas vezes manipulados por forças externas, buscam a autenticidade em um mundo onde as relações são filtradas através de telas. Isso ecoa as preocupações contemporâneas sobre a perda da conexão humana genuína em meio à era digital. Se nos tornamos mais pragmáticos ainda num mundo onde lutamos para sobreviver, qual o papel da arte? Redenção? É um meio de expressão sem qualquer pretensão? A arte surge como uma ferramenta para romper essas barreiras, para capturar momentos autênticos e, simultaneamente, questionar o que é real, mas ao mesmo tempo que se depara com a vida em si, a materialidade do mundo. Em última análise, Landscape with Invisible Hand convida o público a questionar não apenas a autenticidade dos personagens na tela, mas também a autenticidade de suas próprias experiências. Em um mundo saturado de imagens filtradas e realidades virtuais, a arte emerge como um farol de autenticidade, guiando-nos através da paisagem invisível de nossas próprias vidas. Somos desafiados a considerar a importância contínua da arte como uma força que resgata e celebra a autenticidade humana. Landscape with Invisible Hand é uma provocação artística que nos lembra da necessidade vital de preservar a verdadeira essência da expressão humana, mesmo em meio a paisagens invisíveis ou cenários apocalípticos. Por mais que o trato de certos personagens deixem a desejar, há um substrato muito interessante nesse filme, que merece ser visto com cautela, e olha que não sou um especialista em arte, mas acredito que seja um filme interessante para discutir o assunto.
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Based on the novel of the same name by M.T. Anderson, the third effort from the talented Finley (“Thoroughbreds,” “Bad Education”) features some impressively staged sequences and terrific performances, but awkwardly straddles the fence between biting social commentary and dark humor, never quite finding its footing and ending on a curiously flat note.
It’s a fascinating story to balance, and though it doesn’t always work, Finley really runs with the concept and its various themes. It’s safe to say there’s never a dull moment in the film, and it isn’t predictable in terms of what comes next.
With the exception of a few choice words from Haddish, Landscape With Invisible Hand lacks the kind of steady humor and energy that would otherwise keep the story afloat.
Initially intrigues with its lo-fi sci-fi ambition but has too much on its mind without saying anything interesting at all.
Less than halfway into its already brief runtime, Landscape starts to fall apart at the seams. The film bungles its promise with a confused mixture of half-baked ideas that miss their mark entirely, all while it struggles to probe the concept of humor with a cold, alien touch.
Landscape with Invisible Hand is a 2023 American science styrical fiction film movie written and directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds, Bad Education), based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. **** film stars the young black man with artistic aspirations Asante Blackk as Adam Campbell and Kylie Rogers as Chloe Marsh as protagonist, both bellow average, through the role who really shines is from Tiffany Haddish as the matriarch Beth **** two younglins meet by the obsoleted (and soon to be closed school) and is invited to live in the basement of the Campbell family, that retained the house in a impoverished Erath where the rich sent to flying city to work (in minor jobs for the alien race, the Vuvvs) and the rest of the population lives in Earth receiving rations by the Vuvvs and living scavenging under impoverished **** Vuvvs observed the humans since the 50´ where they thought the human race was in their better era, and are tiny physically limited in Earth, where they use they technology and a funny clamp rushing to make sounds as language. Their "invasion" where peacefully as they had replicators for everything, also being able to reproduce more money that the richest of Earth to create a peaceful and Vuvv cultured servent species.Humans can use little technology pieces of metal in their heads that receive and transmits images and transmissions to the Vuvvs that are especially interested in paying to see real romance between humans (and to pay for it) - another satyre to apps like TickTock, Instagram, **** Styrical part here is obvious against capitalism and social levels. Maybe way too obvious but not into the source that was over simplified for the target audience. Maybe some more writing and adult plot would make the movie betters (I see why Brad Pitt is one of the producers and why he saw potential on this one).Maybe like the average "Big Bug" (2022, Netflix) from the magnificent and eccentric Jean-Pierre Jeunet that went under **** score: 6,0 out of 10,0 / C+
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I hate this movie. I don't understand it at all or rather hate the aliens. They're just terrible caricatures. I think the story could have been told much better with not such weird looking aliens. It's still would have made the same points without it being so insanely weird. It had lots of potential and I totally get how the humans are acting, reacting, but the aliens themselves are just so unrelatable. I don't really understand what the writers, producers, director, were thinking. It could have been made so much more simply without the CGI of this really weird characters.
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