Kyrgyzstan Kidnap In Space Cave

Rating: 6/10 (4 January 2017)

In Kyrgyzstan, they have the not-so-delightful custom of kidnapping fiances to save on dowry money. The old caveman trope has heavy-jawed caveman in fur toga, club in hand, dragging cave-woman by the hair. Etc etc. This film is for me a loose remake of 1966 film 'The Trap' which has Oliver Reed as a fur trapper dragging wife hairwiseinto his Alaskan wilderness 'cave'. As per trope, she gets used to it and even becomes attached to him.
Jennifer Lawrence seems like a pretty with-it modern woman. I'm wondering how she was persuaded to play this politically retrograde role. Did she think the developed world is free enough of the last thousands of years of female subjugation that this story won't be a representative example of same? You can't escape context, and this film's context screams 'made by cavemen to serve their agenda', unfortunately. I'm giving it two extra stars for the moderate degree of that specialised quality of wonder sci fi films bring. 4 extra stars for Michael Sheen, who is great as the resident android. Any that would have been given for entertainment value are cancelled out by political dodginess.