Captive State (2019)
Directed by Rupert Wyatt
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
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Despite a substantively delayed release and let’s go with “unenthusiastic” marketing, Captive State still made goo-goo eyes at those of us who have been hankering for a spiritual successor to District 9 for a decade.
Much like Neill Blomkamp's District 9, Captive State is based on a premise that's a clear-cut parable for real world issues (in this case, American imperialism) and taps into present-day concerns about government surveillance and the growing economic divide between the ultra-wealthy and everyone else.
Despite nods in the direction of such worthy endeavors as Attack the Block and District 9 , Captive State is basically a World War II picture reconfigured for a sci-fi crowd, with outer space invaders cast as the Nazis and humans repping the two sides of the French flip: resistance fighters and collaborators.
Attempts to assemble it into a workable package in the editing room didn’t work, so we’re left with a weird cross between District 9 and The Battle of Algiers that doesn’t do either of those apparent inspirations justice.
Por la construcción obsesiva de un mundo realista, esta cinta le debe más a District 9 (que tiene varias referencias directas en la cinta) o a Monsters que a Independence Day .
At times,“Captive State” plays like a “Cloverfield”/”District 9” type film.
Another ostensibly cerebral pseudo-alien invasion film is "Starship Troopers" (directed by Paul Verhoeven in 1997), which inverted the concept by having human beings be the invaders of an innocent planet in a sci-fi film that emphasized ultra-gory schlock.
Captive State isn’t just a burst of youthful rage; it’s also a sly jigsaw puzzle with an aha! final shot worthy of the recent movie version of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy .
I’m reminded of the film “ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ” when pamphlets were handed out prior beforehand to explain code names, code phrases and other items to know before watching the movie.
To quote Bradley Cooper’s angry-at-Ernest-Hemingway character in Silver Linings Playbook, “The world’s hard enough as it is, guys.
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Relatable in its use of a lying, scheming government, we follow young Gabriel Drummond (Ashton Sanders of 2017 Oscar winner La La Land … er, Moonlight) who lives in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial invasion.