Spoilers

Holiday reading has now meant i can now watch this yay

First off all though before I write this I would like to apologise for not posting as many of my actual films that I on recently with Christmas & the start of Jan being very busy I just haven’t been able to get round to it & cinema club does take priority as it’s what now. I also now have an app to edit these again on my iPhone took me months to find one that worked & published & actually accepted my blog. Lots of trail and error but where here. 

So yes High Rise was my holiday reading, and the book has such an odd narrative it really does. We start off with one person who then introduces you to someone else who tells you the story, before then someone else tells you it who has only been mentioned in passing & then we go back to the first & then we have a narration? You kept up if so well done my friends couldn’t on holiday they were all like what. So maybe this was a case where I should have watched the film first to understand it better.

I know I’m biased but Tom Hiddleston can’t do anything in acting wrong (I say acting let’s not look at that swift debacle shall we). He nails Lang in this film I really am worried he’s gone completely insane & lost the plot. I do think they should have kept his sister alive killing her off before we started seemed weird. His performance is helped my the like of Luke Evans who is an absolute star at the moment he’s acting his arse off in everything. I do love it when we Brits rule the world. We also have Sienna Miller Keeley Hawes & Jeremy Irons.

But who really stole the show in my opinion Dan Skinner (Angelos Ephithimu) he was so sleazy & evil & I really wanted to punch him in the face & was sitting there know he was going to meet an evil ending & that he deserved it so much. I just couldn’t help but watch him intently. He even had a bag at one point & I realised I was humming the song about it.

Its a very weird crazy film about a power struggle & how people on the upper floors have everything, and on the bottom they dont.

When the guy kills himself is different to how he does it in the book, its more presumed as murder or motivation to murder so then suicide, rather than guilt. I think that makes the narrative more true, then just oh there he goes.

Dont eat dogs people, not good.

The insanity is nowhere near as mad as it is in the book, the film dumbs it down for the audience.

The swimming pool of the dead is amazing at the end what a brilliant visual.

Its a clever film, but its very hard to explain, & try to review you do need to watch & read it before you discus it with anyone. You will enjoy it & see it more as a work of art than a film, but be prepared for the graphic nature of ist.