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Exit
Australia 2016
produced by David King, Lorraine Hall for DJK Media
directed by David King
starring Gemma Wells, David King, Gemma Papalia, Andrea Parke, Elaine Janes, Andrew Hills, Don Kenyon, Dan Eastman, Ed Mylan, John Norden, Christine Monjaret, Jodie O'Connor, Sandy Lee, Lorraine Hall, Tilda Sturman, Joel MacCartney, and the voices of Wayne Jury, Jon Mamonski, Matthew King
written by David King
short
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Humankind has reached its final stage, the stage where everything's
going to be awesome from now on: Everybody lives in paradise, mortality
has been defeated and everybody stays fit thanks to nanobots, the TV's
only transmitting good news, and protests against this system are simply
not happening, because why would they? Writer Y (David King) should be so
happy in this enviroment, as there's nothing much asked from him other
than meeting his deadlines, and for the longest time he convinces himself
he is ... but then he gets messages from his wife - which is totally
disturbing because his wife has committed suicide some 30 years ago, and
suicide's a big no-no in this new world humankind lives in. But Y begins
to wonder, is he actually living in this paradise he's living in, and if
not, what is real. And why is his psychiatrist so disappointingly evasive
about everything? Exit is a cinematic experience all of
its own. While narratively it's an anti-utopian science fiction story with
definite shade of George Orwell's 1984, in style it's a quite
different creature, an associative collage of newly filmed stuff, stock
footage, seemingly random establishing shots, written word, all mixed
together in a way that might seem wild at first, but serves the story of
crumbling realities quite splendidly, getting the audience not just into
the P.O.V. of its protagonist but virtually in his mind. And the outcome
... well, it's probably not easy to devour for everybody who's used to the
well-established canonic cinematic language, but if you can open yourself
to something vastly "different" and weird (in the best sense of
the word), you'll be richly rewarded!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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