“Downsizing” was directed by Alexander Payne who, with Jim Taylor, wrote the story and screenplay. The film stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Kristen Wiig and Hong Chau. I went to this film expecting to see an elaboration of a very tempting trailer but, unfortunately, the best part of the
“Downsizing” was directed by Alexander Payne who, with Jim Taylor, wrote the story and screenplay. The film stars Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Kristen Wiig and Hong Chau. I went to this film expecting to see an elaboration of a very tempting trailer but, unfortunately, the best part of the film was, in fact, all in the trailer itself. What starts out with a very intriguing concept, i.e. shrinking human beings to a height of 5 inches with a proportionate environment around them, loses itself in the first 30 minutes and travels in a number of different directions, most of which involve the writer’s political statements about climate change and the harm humans are doing to the planet. Also, to add another negative to the film is the role played by Thailand actress Hong Chau and what has to be the worst attempt ever made at imitating a Vietnamese émigré. Simply stated, she ruins each scene in which she appears with this ‘chalk on a blackboard” dialogue. Couple all of this with plot changes and ideas that make no sense and you have a disappointing and uncomfortable 135 minutes. I give the film a rating of 6.02 because of what it started out to be, and could have been, but unfortunately went downhill in mid reel. In summary, all of Mr. Payne’s efforts as director and co-writer of this film came up short (pun intended).
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Selain drama dan humor, Downsizing kental sentuhan fiksi ilmiah. REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Para ilmuwan asal Norwegia berhasil menggagas teknologi baru untuk mengatasi populasi manusia yang kian meningkat. Solusi itu adalah downsizing, yang bisa menyusutkan manusia beserta sejumlah spesies ke ukuran mini.
Mereka yang bersedia disusutkan bakal tinggal bersama di sejumlah komunitas tersendiri. Temuan membuat banyak orang di berbagai belahan dunia tertarik mencoba, termasuk pasangan muda asal Omaha, Nebraska, AS, Paul Safranek dan istrinya, Audrey. Paul dan Audrey ingin menyusut demi perbaikan finansial, juga karena jenuh menjadi manusia berukuran 'normal'. Namun, niat menjajal hal berbeda malah berujung konflik dan petulangan mengguncangkan di hidup baru mereka setelah mengecil. Ide cerita yang ditawarkan dalam film drama komedi Downsizing tersebut cukup menarik. Jim Taylor bersama sineas Alexander Payne yang sekaligus menjadi sutradara menggarap skenario film dalam alur penuh drama dan kejutan. Selain konten drama dan humor, Downsizing diwarnai sentuhan kental fiksi ilmiah. Sinema yang didistribusikan oleh Paramount Pictures ini memuat visual mengenai eksperimen laboratorium, studi ilmiah, juga presentasi saintifik. Tokoh utama Paul Safranek diperankan dengan kuat oleh aktor Matt Damon. Meski Paul adalah sorotan utama, ia justru ditampilkan agak menyedihkan, seperti gagal meraih mimpi, kondisi keuangan pas-pasan, dan kegamangan menemukan tempatnya di dunia. Penggambaran karakter Paul sebagai orang kebanyakan bisa membuat banyak penonton merasa terkait. Sinema berdurasi 135 menit ini juga lumayan humanis, seperti menyoal perjuangan aktivis, kegigihan orang berkebutuhan khusus, dan kondisi kesenjangan kaum marjinal. Alur film yang lumayan datar dan lambat pada awal hingga tengah durasi sempat menerbitkan kantuk. Kekurangan itu tertolong oleh sisipan komedi dan akting salah satu tokoh perempuan kocak asal Vietnam bernama Ngoc Lan Tran yang diperankan aktris Hong Chau. Downsizing tidak mengecewakan bagi penikmat film yang mencari tayangan alternatif untuk tertawa sekaligus merenung. Film untuk 13 tahun ke atas ini bisa ditonton di bioskop Indonesia mulai 2 Februari 2018.
Downsizing: 'Halfway through and I'm watching a completely different film'
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Downsizing (M)
136 mins ★★★
Alexander Payne is a great writer-director (both The Descendants and Sideways won him Oscars) with a flair for smart ideas and strong characterisation. His latest, Downsizing, has to be one of the most brilliant story conceits in years.
But the movie which starts with incredible promise and is utterly engrossing then morphs inexplicably into a completely different film halfway through. And so here we are, disappointed and bewildered, reading a three-star review.
supplied Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig are fantastic as an ordinary American couple who decide to downsize - physically...
Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig are effortlessly fantastic as the most ordinary American couple imaginable, leading perfectly average and unscintillating lives in their plaid shirts and three-quarter length trousers. Scientific advancements in the last decade have made it possible for Joe Citizen to physically downsize, at reasonable cost, and assume a smaller, cheaper but more luxurious life in a small-people compound. By undergoing the process of cellular reduction and reducing to 5 inches tall, humankind is seeking to decrease its waste and footprint to save the dwindling planet.
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Fabulous idea, solid message. With Everyman Damon at the helm, the first half of the film transfixes with its unexplained science and beguiling wish fulfilment (the small people can afford to live in much more salubrious surrounds and even if you think it's tacky, your mind boggles at the possibilities). Having lost the opportunity to study medicine at college, Damon's passive, wistful characterisation hints at the maxim that life's too short to watch all your dreams disappear.
Paramount Pictures Director Alexander Payne talks Downsizing
But once "on the other side", things don't work out quite as he'd hoped and the audience's interest starts to wane. The moment Christoph Waltz gurns his way through the front door, Downsizing becomes a strange morality tale which encourages us to laugh at a young Vietnamese woman while absorbing the very 2018 lecture that inequality lives on in all well-meaning situations. This is fine – it's an important point – but delivered so muddily and with such a bizarre change in tone (and that bloody Waltz along for the ride) that the story winds up neither engaging nor instructing.
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United in the weekend of 26JAN18’s filed planned service downsizing at Guam, reflecting the airline’s announcement in 2017. Planned changes for summer 2018 season as follow.
Guam – Nagoya eff 07MAY18 Reduce from 14 to 9-10 weekly, 7 weekly from 24JUN18
Guam – Osaka Kansai eff 06MAY18 Reduce from 10 to 7 weekly. 737-700/-800 operating, instead of -800 only (Except selected dates in August 2018)
Guam – Shanghai Pu Dong eff 25MAR18 2 weekly service cancelled
Guam – Sendai eff 02APR18 2 weekly service cancelled (Except 03MAY18 / 06MAY18)
Guam – Tokyo Narita eff 12MAY18 All 3 daily flights operated by 737-800, replacing 1 daily 737 and 2 daily 777
