When you have scores of people living their lives through their online personas, each competing with one another to appear more happy, more perfect, then this movie seems rather prophetic.
I see some complaining about the wooden performances throughout the film, ignoring the fact that this is the point. The surrogates emote very little, and are uncanny to us, who rely so much on non-verbal language to understand our interactions. The moments where actual humans are allowed to emote, especially the brief scenes with Rosemund Pike, shine all the more for it.
Is this movie high art in film form? No, but it's entertaining, it's fairly well paced, and its message is cogent. I recommend watching it at least once.
Surrogates
2009
Action / Crime / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Surrogates
2009
Action / Crime / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot summary
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
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July 20, 2012 at 02:12 PM
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More relevant now than it's ever been
Surprisingly timely
Heavy handed, but surprisingly effective.
On the effects of a remote life, thanks to the interwebs and Uber.
And a surprisingly contemporary ending, with people in their dressing gowns coming out in the streets -- is this what the end of the Covid confinement will look like?
Ps-yes, Bruce Willis is scary with that wig. Get over it. In 10 years we won't even have actors.