Dystopian fiction still has something to say when it’s not American blockbusters but those who dare to deviate from the path of what has already been seen and predicted.
Paradise from the German director Boris Kunz is one of the most interesting innovations Netflix.
In Berlin, AEON offers its customers the opportunity to buy years to become young again. The price is high because this time will be taken as payment from the poorest and most needy people. Forget about the cold and patina During Andrew NiccolWith Justin Timberlake, in which time governed people’s lives, but, unfortunately, had the intensity of Tissot advertising.
What Kunz tells is a perfect marital relationship put to the test by a forced chronological reversal, a perfect work that turns out to be an abomination to humanity, and finally, a gripping thriller in which nothing is as it seems, and neither other. People. . Paradise tells the tale of the hell behind paradise—the illusions of eternal youth, love, and wealth—and does so with complexity and believability, delving into the humanity and contradictions of the protagonists until it goes far beyond the thriller. Science fiction.
The CEO of the company, Sophie Theissen, and her researchers, with their DNA matching system that allows some, called donors, to donate years of their lives in exchange for payment, will have a hard time with the terrorist organization Adam Group. In fact, activists are ruthlessly killing wealthy recipients of freshly rejuvenated years.
But the rest of the story is worth seeing…
The idea paradoxically boils down to Gattaca – the door to the universe (Gattaca) 1997, directed by Andrew Niccol himself of Time, and it was a little dystopian masterpiece in which science—always science—promised progress and happiness through prenatal DNA genetic control. Also in this case, as in Paradise, supposed happiness was reserved only for the elect, and the world was fatally divided into rich and poor, with even greater cruelty and social division.
also in Island (2005), director Michael Bay, the idea of creating human organs “in vitro” in order to then be able to replace any damaged part of the client’s body, making him live healthy and “forever” did not go in the right direction and a generation of involuntary slaves was created for human consumption. In short, it seems that for cinema, when science promises to improve our lives tremendously, we should never let our guard down…