Aggro Dr1ft: A ghostly film looking to the future

The audience gives a standing ovation and repeated applause. Agro Dr1ftthe latest cinematic work by Californian director Harmony Korine, presented out of competition on the occasion of the eightieth Venice Film Festival. Agro Dr1ft This is an original, innovative film that combines different expressive languages ​​from video art to the world of video games, shot entirely in infrared using thermal lenses: the result is hypnotic, psychedelic, modern.

The main character Bo is played by Jordi Molla, a melancholy gangster who dreams of his wife, a soft and seductive woman with their young children, while traveling through the ruthless Florida, accompanied by a tribe of young followers he has trained; Prominent among them is the naive Zion, the character played by Travis Scott.

Bo is a hero, a lonely man, a mythological figure who, in the squalor and degradation that surrounds him, tries to defeat the fiery enemy with his team, the Demon, who tyranns the city with easy money and prostitution.

WITH Agro Dr1ftHarmony Korine seems to want to introduce us to the future and inevitable vision of humanity that robots and artificial intelligence will be able to see. There are many thoughts: did the director make this film for android viewers, thereby anticipating their perception of our world?

To Harmony Korine:

“Cruel days, cruel nights. I didn’t really want to make a film. I wanted to do something that happens after the film. I wanted to be inside the world. A bit like a video game. But who’s playing? GAMECORE. Edglerd. Something new is on the horizon. Life is Beautiful. Without him we would be dead. Agro Dr1ft

. In the middle of the worlds. Closed and loaded. Ode to an aggressive wanderer.”