Paradise, the new title on Netflix, is a movie that raises the average compared to other original titles published by the platform. Despite the insignificant second part, in which it intriguing science fiction eventually it becomes an action, like so many others, the incipit and the subject as a whole remain impressed for a long time.
The action takes place in a temporarily close, but dystopian future. Paradise, written and directed by Boris Kunz, is about a world where youth is for sale, in the sense that it can actually be stolen from other people in exchange for money. So the rich become forever beautiful while the poor have the opportunity to improve their quality of life at the price of sudden aging by the number of years sold.
In this context, the plot of the film focuses on a young couple consisting of Elena (Marlene Tanczyk) and Max (Kost Ulmann). These two have an almost perfect existence, but due to an unexpected problem, they have to pay the debt off paying with 40 years of Elena’s life. Deprived of a shared future, they know that nothing will ever be the same, but Max, who works for whoever has the system, will do whatever it takes to get back what’s been lost.
AEON, multi-billion dollar developer biotechnology in question, has the merit of sacrificing years to scientists and Nobel Prize winners, who can thus work longer for the common good, which makes it difficult to see the absolute evil in the organization, as does a group of rebels who counter it with blows. terrorist attacks. The beauty of “Paradise” is that both sides, both the one that advocates the technology of “transferring” time from one person to another, and the one that sees inhumanity in power in this patent, mix angelic intentions and devilish intentions. ways . In addition, donors are active actors who apparently consider the exchange to be fair, so the line between victims and perpetrators is blurred and morally ambiguous.
What most disturbs and at the same time excites when seeing “Paradise” is the spontaneous birth in the viewer of internal questions that tickle him. system of values. Is he ready to sell part of his life for money? Or would he rather spend some of his money on rejuvenation? Let’s be honest, both things are already happening in our present.
Those who do jobs they hate end up trading their time for money, and many of those who seek to keep their youth have the opportunity to resort to costly aesthetic procedures. Of course, in the film’s dystopian future, the issue becomes ethical: Currency exchange it is youth that is seen by some as carte blanche and by others as the only true status symbol one can possess. But in a society where form is increasingly perceived as content, the hypothesis of a practice that is nothing less than politically incorrect as described does not seem so much science fiction. Human selfishness he is a true villain both on and off screen.
Just a big shame narrative potential which arouse interest in the first part, disappear, then do not appear in the second, never occupying and with a changeable rhythm: affective dynamics, ethical dilemmas and the mental breakdowns of the protagonists give way to the usual raids of militants.
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