2067
This indie science fiction movie “2067” directed by Seth Larney is more infuriating than most of the other independent sci-fi films because it hints at a lot of great things in this intelligent plot. The narrative structure here is bare bones, but also intriguing and captivating like “12 Monkeys”, which suggests the possible future directions and time travelling. Even as worse performances increasingly drive away genre fans while frustrating writing does the same thing, the optimistic cum twisting core that constitutes “2067” will keep them engaged.
Ethan Whyte played by Kodi Smit McPhee isn’t very convincing to be honest. It was then that the planet started dying, which made it begin collapsing under its own weight out of oxygen and plunged into epidemics. This is clearly a bleak vision of what our future could look like if climate change does not become the pre-eminent issue for all forthcoming elections.
Ethan and his sick wife (Sana’a Shaik) have really hard lives with Ethan working on an unstable nuclear power station in their decaying city. But he gets given some crazy chance, right? Scientists turned out to have created a portal to another time; however, this has different emotional texture from any other time travel film when you consider where our planet is now going.
What would happen if you were living in those days when it felt like your generation might be the last one? It’s just as much about human survival rather than technology as centuries ahead respond to some communication back when there’s somebody at another side who actually sent it. Who are they? How did they reverse course on a planet becoming uninhabitable? And why is their feedback message signalling ‘Send Ethan Whyte’?
They tell Ethan that he can jump ahead just to see what kind of madness is happening, though they don’t have any way to bring him back. Can he figure out why future wants him or she’s the one that can see that it comes to fruition and make it? Once he lands in the far future, there is something he never expected. The foliage is there, but no people just a skeleton which makes his adventure even weirder. A fine story that explicitly looks like a number of well-known genres of time travelling sci-fi movies in terms of its delivery as well as the reasons why Ethan holds the key to tomorrow. This will be an interesting movie due to its enigma .
But the rest sadly lacks viewer engagement. Other films may have been better for Smit-McPhee, but perhaps he was just under directed or miscast here and never managed to grasp this character, whilst coming across somewhat harsh in his confused feelings. He and co-star Ryan Kwanten have suffered through one cliché filled conversation after the other.
Both actors do not make good anchors for this highly cultured science fiction movie, but I blame writing and direction rather than them. Larney injects more melodrama into “2067” as well as ramping up the tearfulness to 11 which pushes emotions that don’t seem to correspond with what has been earned by the film so far. Though ambitious storytelling is commendable, Larney fails himself by letting his dialogue go unedited enough and not having more assured performances on set.
I will note though that Larney has a discerning eye for things that almost completely makes up for all of those cringe worthy dialogues. As much as it is clear that “2067” is low budgeted, Larney does what he can with it portraying future where there isn’t only metal and fire but vegetation instead green everywhere you look at it. A future full of green is everyone’s dream right?
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