A brilliant movie that needed...something

Rating: 7/10 (27 December 2017)

The concept here is pretty brilliant: a dystopian reality that legislates coupledom. From single people becoming animals to characters being defined by their limitations, this film points out the absurdities of our society's obsession with romance. In fact, it borrows heavily from the theater of the "absurd." And that's both genius and problematic. Because it's hard to care about flat characters who engage with sillier and sillier circumstances. I kept thinking this movie should be amazing...without ever caring what happened to the protagonists. And that's kind of a problem.