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Netflix Just Quietly Released the Best Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie of the Year [The Kitchen] (www.inverse.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Emperor to c/britishfilms

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The film is something of a big deal, despite its unheralded Netflix premiere. The Kitchen marks Daniel Kaluuya’s (Nope, Judas and the Black Messiah) directorial debut, alongside short film director Kibwe Tavares. Kaluuya also co-wrote the film with Gangs of London’s Joe Murtagh, cementing a vision of dystopian, near-future London alongside an unconventional tale of found family. It’s Blokamp-esque in design, but is centered on Britain’s Black diaspora. It’s a shame such a unique film can’t be seen on the biggest screen possible, but it at least deserves to be seen by as many eyes as possible.

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[–] Emperor 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Watched it in the cinema - stunning film. I think they sacrifice some logic in the plot for the sake of visual impact but it works and so I'll let them off (this time). I went with a friend who does special effects for film, TV and ads who has a much more critical eye for such things and he was also bowled over - the thing he flagged up was the way quality CGI was dropped into real locations, as opposed to actors against a green screen, which gives it a lot more weight and impact.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw it on a plane last week, so didn't experience the full flavour of it. I should rewatch it on a better screen.

I did like it a lot, but the AI stuff didn't make sense to me. They perfected intelligence but not advanced robotics outside of the human form. They made the AI people way too human like. A war on AI would be less material and more networking and hacking. I'm not really into Anime but the movie Ghost In The Shell does a good job on dealing with humans and machines.

But still. I'd recommend it to people and I'll happy watch it again!

The visuals were very good.

[–] Emperor 2 points 10 months ago

I did like it a lot, but the AI stuff didn’t make sense to me.

There's quite a bit of it that made me go "hold on" (I had a lot of questions about NOMAD too) but they carry it off with excellent performances and stunning visuals that I just went along with it in the end.