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An Affair

A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Anita: Andrea Bræin Hovig Markus: Tarjei Sandvik Moe Unni: Anneke von der Lippe Hasse: Carsten Bjørnlund Mina: Lea Meyer Frode: Mattis Herman Nyquist Trine-Lise: Ingjerd Egeberg Lars: Anders T. Andersen Eli: Tone Beate Mostraum Randi: Marit…

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197 - Downsizing

And we’re back to your regularly scheduled episodes! This week, we return to our non-EW episodes with one of the more divisive high-profile bombs in recent years, 2017′s Downsizing. A globalization satire from Alexander Payne and his Sideways co-writer Jim Taylor, the film follows an everyman played by Matt Damon who decides to join the masses deciding to shrink themselves for the sake of green initiatives and a little outsized wealth. The film ran the 2017 fall festival gamut, opening the Venice Film Festival to raves only to see increasingly negative receptions at Telluride and Toronto. In the long wait to its eventual Christmastime release, the negative perceptions settled in and the film became a box office bomb.

By Oscar time, its biggest chances lied in the supporting turn from SAG, Globe, and Critics’ Choice nominee Hong Chau as a political activist forced into downsized life as punishment. This episode, we’ll be talking about the 2017 Supporting Actress race and how she was shut out at the last minute. We’ll also discuss Damon’s constant foot-in-mouth syndrome, 8 Kinds of F*cks, and the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Films of 2017.

Topics also include our thoughts on this year’s Cannes, talking head documentaries, and Paramount’s big year of bombs.

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DOWNSIZING (2017). We are all doomed.

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2018:42 — Downsizing

(2017 - Alexander Payne) **

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Downsizing or Blame Women For All Your Shortcomings

It's been a day and a half since I saw Downsizing and I’m still not sure what I think about it. The problem was mostly a tonal one, which was partly the fault of the trailer for advertising it as a whimsical comedy, when I’m not sure if Downsizing wants me to be moved by the good that people are capable of or gloomily contemplate the downfall of humanity, or just laugh at a few dick and butt jokes. The messages from the women in this film are just as mixed.

*Downsizing spoilers follow*

Most of the women in Downsizing fall into the reductive and derogatory category of “look at all these women who let Paul (Matt Damon) down even though he’s such a nice guy.” The first woman to be guilty of such a crime is Paul’s unnamed mother (Jayne Houdyshell) who does nothing but complain, and Paul later goes on to imply that the reason he never rose to meteoric heights as a surgeon is that he had to put his own life on hold to care for her in her illness. She promptly dies off screen and is replaced by Paul’s wife, Audrey (Kristen Wiig), who is in the same room of the same house still bemoaning her own pain, whilst Paul does what he can to care for her. Audrey also disappoints Paul by failing to downsize with him, therefore robbing him of his life of luxury, forcing him to live in a humble apartment rather than a mansion and hold down a job in a call centre. She is shown to be greedy and materialistic - she’s the one who wants the big house, Paul just wants to make her happy, and she appears to force a better deal out of the divorce settlement. Furthermore, her decision making is irrational, vain and selfish; it’s having her head shaved that triggers her decision not to downsize and she’s constantly wailing about how everything affects her, showing little consideration for how Paul feels. Therefore, both Paul’s wife and mother seem to merge into one female proxy that symbolises how women keep taking the things he deserves away from him - his career, dream house and life of leisure are all kept from him by these women.

Once he is small, women continue to let Paul down. He attempts to start dating again, and meets single Kristen (Kerri Kenney), a single mother also coping with some of the unforeseen problems of downsizing - such as her son being afraid of his enormous grandparents. Paul willingly subverts her saying that it’s too soon for him to meet her son into Kristen dumping him and storms off, leaving her calling after him in the corridor; in his mind, once again abandoned by a woman. Even when he tries to blow off some steam at a party, Paul is “deceived” by an anonymous woman who offers him drugs, which Paul appears to believe is some sort of unspoken contract for a sexual encounter, but once he has taken the pill she returns to the party, leaving Paul alone and hard done by again.

The only female character with any substance is Ngoc Lan Tran (Hong Chan), a Vietnamese activist who was downsized against her will in a prison which killed her sister before becoming the only survivor of a perilous crossing to America in a television box which cost her one of her legs. Her backstory alone immediately makes her a much more interesting character than Paul, whose only real problem is that he is divorced and not quite as rich as he would like to be. Additionally, she has a personality, which is more than can be said for Paul. Instead of a meek and mild mannered martyr, she is fiery, direct, honest and pragmatic, showing her care for others through useful actions. She is at the utter bottom of the socio-economic chain of the supposedly idyllic Leisureland community, but she never laments her situation, she just does what she can to make it better for those around her, caring for the sick and collecting food for the rest of her community.

Paul is also shown to be a good person, he constantly tends to the injuries of those around him, but these gestures almost seem superimposed onto the film, a big, flashy sign that says, “look at poor Paul, he’s such a nice guy.” If these instances were removed from Downsizing, he’s just a man constantly believing that he’s been short-changed by life, chasing the idea that he deserves better and is meant to be part of something bigger. He also seems to feel the need to bring women with him on these ventures, first (unsuccessfully) talking Audrey into downsizing with him, then attempting to bring Ngoc Lan into a doomsday cult vault with him where they would spend the rest of their lives. Their two responses to this situation sum up the differences in their characters perfectly - Paul wants to go because he believes he is intrinsically important and destined to become a part of something monumental, whereas Ngoc Lan chooses to stay because she knows for a fact that she can still do good to actually help people out in the real world.

The romance between these two characters is completely inexplicable; it comes out of nowhere, neither of them seem to have actually had feelings for each other up to that point, and appears to only serve to give Paul a reason to come out of the vault and back to reality at the end. Friendship and the value of the common sense in Ngoc Lan’s advice to stay and deliver pragmatic aid to people in need could have been enough, but apparently sex had to be the main motivator.

There are a few other named female characters, and women are very present in the background as nurses, administrators, real estate agents and sales representatives. One of the latter is Laura Lonowski (Laura Dern) who we briefly meet in a bath trying to convince people to downsize because they can have lots of diamonds, just like her. Anne-Helene Asbjørnsen (Ingjerd Egeberg) makes several short appearances as the wife of Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen (Rolf Lassgård), the scientist who made downsizing possible. In some respects she is a pioneer, as one of the first people ever to downsize, but she is mostly portrayed as a devoted wife, supporting Jørgen in all of his decisions and endeavours, even if they involve starting a doomsday cult. Finally, there is Solveig Edvardsen (Margareta Peterson), a fellow believer in the apocalypse, who seems to exist to emphasise the fanaticism of the Norwegian colony, with her eccentric behaviour and appearance, as well as making Paul (and presumably, the intended audience) uncomfortable with the sexuality of a comfortable older woman, as her talking about mountain Paul as a pony in her dream is one of the moments that Downsizing seems to be reminding us that it’s maybe a comedy.

Overall, the women in Downsizing are mostly used as the root cause of all the shortcomings in the life of one fairly uncharismatic and uninteresting man. Thankfully, Ngoc Lan rises above this as a human being with an actual personality and sense of purpose. She overcomes so much adversity and remains positive without becoming a sappy stereotype of a do-gooder. It’s just a shame to see such a unique female character suffer a fate as old as cinema itself, falling into an unfathomable romance with the main white man, when friendship could have been just as poignant.

And now for some asides:

I really enjoyed how many satisfying levers, dials and switches there were in this film, the fidgeter in me wanted to play with them all.

Umm, excuse me, why was there such an extended colonic irrigation scene? Can we please never do that again?

I think if I was supposed to be sickened by anything in this film it was humanity (maybe?) but really it was the proliferation of McMansions. My eyes!                                            

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Downsizing (2017)

In today's review, I take more than a little off. As I attempt a #positive review of the 2017 peculiar sci-fi comedy blend known as Downsizing #MattDamon #ChristophWaltz #HongChau #KristenWiig #JasonSudeikis #MaribethMonroe #UdoKier #RolfLassgård

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Review: Downsizing (2017)

After falling in love with Colossal (2017) last year for it’s unique story line, I was over the moon when I saw a trailer for Downsizing (2017). 2 movies in the same year with an interesting, different tale to tell that isn’t a remake or a sequel? Count me in! Plus it stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz and Jason Sudeikis? Shut up and take my money, cinema lady. Us humans are slowly…

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Downsizing (2017) review by Jonathan Berk

Alexander Payne’s new film Downsizing (2017) is an interesting character study set in a world with technology that allows people to be shrunk. Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen (Rolf Lassgård) has developed the procedure in an effort to cure the world’s number one threat: overpopulation. Fifteen years after the procedure known as Downsizing was created, Paul Safranek (Matt Damon) and his wife Audrey Safranek…

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'Downsizing' Official Trailer

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Downsizing

Downsizing #Comedy #Drama #Sci-Fi #SciFi

FILM REVIEW Today I am reviewing the film, Downsizing. A Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Rolf Lassgård, and Ingjerd Egeberg. Downsizing Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi Paramount Home Entertainment Director: Alexander Payne (directed by) Writers: Alexander Payne (written by) Jim Taylor (written by) Starring: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen…

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Fantastic Fest 2017: Downsizing Review

Fantastic Fest 2017: Downsizing Review

Rating:

5.5 out of 10

Cast:

Matt Damon as Paul Safranek Christoph Waltz -as Dusan Mirkovic Hong Chau as Ngoc Lan Tran Kristen Wiig as Audrey Safranek Rolf Lassgård as Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen Ingjerd Egeberg as Anne-Helene Asbjørnsen Udo Kier as Konrad Søren Pilmark as Dr. Andreas Jacobsen Jayne Houdyshell as Paul’s Mother Jason Sudeikis as Dave Johnson Maribeth Monroe as Carol Johnson

Directed by A…

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Downsizing [2017]

Downsizing is a 2017 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne and written by Payne and Jim Taylor. The film stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Jason Sudeikis, and Kristen Wiig. Principal photography on the film began in Ontario, Canada on April 1, 2016.

The film premiered at the 74th Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2017, and is set to be released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on December 22, 2017.

Matt Damon as Paul Safranek, Audrey’s husband

Christoph Waltz as Dusan Mirkovic, an aging partyboy.

Hong Chau[2] as Ngoc Lan Tran, a Vietnamese activist shrunk against her will by the government.

Kristen Wiig as Audrey Safranek, Paul’s supportive wife

Jason Sudeikis as Dave Johnson, Carol’s husband, an old high school friend of Paul and Audrey

Maribeth Monroe as Carol Johnson, Dave's wife, an old high school friend of Paul and Audrey

Udo Kier as Joris Konrad, an aging partyboy and Dusan's companion

Rolf Lassgård as Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen, Anne-Helene’s husband, inventor of the downsizing procedure

Ingjerd Egeberg as Anne-Helene Asbjørnsen, Jørgen's wife.

Søren Pilmark as Dr. Andreas Jacobsen

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Mammon – Staffel Zwei

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