24 hours later adusted review. Sorry. Haven't seen a good movie in a while.

I hated every minute of watching High-Rise, which took me about 5 days to get through. The trailer told me it was a horror movie, but it is actually a British arthouse film about allegories for the despairigy of class warfare and political machinations of control. It is utterly brilliant and very hard to wrap your head around here in America. Cause we don't know jack shit about what you do there, or your terminology, but the general themes were able to gloss across. Some serious powerhouse acting performances, especially from Luke Evans who basically plays a coked up fever dream of Lemmy from Motorhead waging war on the Man. This movie has flaws, all of which lay in censorship and not quite going all the way there. But it mostly succeeds in every respect and is appropriately confusing and open to interpretation where it needs to be. It took until the 90 minute mark to learn what the movie even was. Had an Ohhhhhh.... it doesn't suck, it's brilliant thing. Which honestly, wasn't pleasant. The marketing was terrible. Apparently this was a popular book like Clockwork Orange or something. I wrapped up the film feeling meh, ok. I think I get it. But then it stayed with me like any good movie does. And I started seeing more and more nuance and reflection on today's culture that started to add up pretty fucking disturbing. It's a god damned masterpiece. All the characters are basically despicable. You might identify with the main lead, you might not. You probably won't, honestly. Most of our lots likely lie with the victims. I can't wait to watch it again. I hated this movie so much. For days straight. On every level. But in the end, I fucking loved it. Wow. Even the final message. The hope, was grim hope. Of a devolved and perverted version of humanity. That might survive.