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Apr 21, 2016 · Ben Wheatley has crafted a story that takes a building, and makes it a living, breathing participant in a feature length film that will dare you not to turn away. High-Rise is a modern day ...
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Aug 2, 2016 · High-Rise is the adaption of JG Ballard's 1975 novel. If you have a crush on LOKI (Tom Hiddleston) from Avengers you will not like this movie. Don't even bother. If you like dark humor and you enjoyed Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho you may like this movie. Its not a horror film though.
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High-Rise is the latest film adaption of a J.G. Ballard novel. The previously most prominent one was David Cronenberg's controversial Crash (1996). Similar to that one, High-Rise is a pretty faithful adaption of the material. Having read both of those books, I felt that High-Rise was definitely the superior of the two.
Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote that hell is other people. Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s 1975 novel takes this premise to its (il)logical conclusion, as, in an ironic twist on the title, High-Rise depicts a steady descent into class war-induced delirium, as social and financial divisions steadily turn the eponymous building into an Infernal Tower rather than a towering inferno.
May 5, 2016 · Luxury tower living takes a sinister turn and neighborly spats have deadly consequences in High-Rise, a film opening in theaters on May 13.Based on the 1975 novel by J.G. Ballard, the movie ...
So I’ve read High Rise by JG Ballard, and just watched the Ben Wheatley film. While I can’t say I enjoyed either the book or the movie, they both upset me sufficiently and in different ways. The movie tried to string together a coherent plot within a story that’s more about the vignettes of the people who occupy the high rise.
