"High Rise" (2015) Directed by Ben Wheatley
“Looks like the rot’s set in”.
Set in JG Ballard’s penned futuristic vision of a dystopian nightmare of society metaphorically, and in a grisly instance, quite literally, eating itself, we encounter “Dr Laing” (Tom Hiddleston) a Doctor at a School of Physiology, who moves into the building of the future, a High Rise Apartment Block of 40 Floors created and built by the self appointed “Architect” known as “Royal” (a brilliantly laconic Jeremy Irons). Other residents, and there are far too many dotted throughout the apartment block to name every character, include single mother “Charlotte” (Sienna Miller), heavily pregnant “Helen” (a brilliant Elisabeth Moss), her husband “Wilder” (with Luke Evans excellently living up to his name!), “Cosgrove” (Peter Ferdinando) and “Ann” (Keeley Hawes) enjoying life on the top floor of the apartment block as the wife of Royal but more importantly, able to ride her horse amongst the splendidly apportioned roof garden! Small cameo roles are also filled by returnees from previous Ben Wheatley films in the guise of Tony Wray as the befuddled Caretaker “Robert” and Neil Maskell as “PC White”.
Envisioned and created by the Architect Royal, Jeremy Irons reigns supreme on the top floor of the world and the building he created. Dressed all in white, he cuts a God like figure atop the world and in a building where money and affluence affords you a higher standard of living in every sense, with the upper levels of the building set aside for the wealthiest of clients. With it’s own integral swimming pool and supermarket, the residents seemingly have no wish to venture further from their own luxurious environment, and this becomes bizarrely and starkly apparent even as the building, and their self contained world, descends into anarchy and chaos. Tensions mount, differences begin to show and three months into their vision of future living, anarchy reigns on every floor of the High Rise tower.
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The above opening paragraphs are taken from my original review of "High Rise" penned and published nearly a decade ago but which can be read in full and for free via my original Medium blog site and original article linked immediately below:
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