Rent 2073 (2024)

Thought Provoking & Frightening Documentary - 2073 review by GI

This is a thought provoking drama documentary structured in a way to give it a narrative bookend that follows an unnamed woman (Samantha Morton) who is scavenging in a post apocalyptic world in the year 2073 and who recalls the events of the past that have led to the destruction of society and possibly the world. This then leads to a serious documentary utilising interviews and news footage that studies the rise of totalitarianism, far right politics dominated by the tech' billionaires that have arisen in the last few years. It's an eye opening documentary that has sort of slipped under the radar and it is intellectually structured by director Asif Kapadia who made Amy (2015) and Senna (2010). It's chilling prediction of a stark future for humanity of authoritarian rule as the super rich rebuild the world for their own survival. Well worth checking out.

A disappointing mishmash - 2073 review by SB

I found this to be an incoherent film, with very little storyline. It is more a series of opinions. Whilst I would not necessarily disagree with some of those opinions, this is not what I am renting films for. This was promoted as a supposedly "epic science-true-fiction thriller set in a dystopian near-future". I would strongly assert that this is neither a faithful nor useful summary of the content of this film. It is certainly not a 'thriller' in any conventional meaning of that word, nor what the film is about.

I would further add that I was initially surprised by the film's short duration of eighty three minutes, but I can now see why its duration was so short - it basically had little narrative content and nothing to offer nor say.