![]() ![]() The story of a seemingly inexplicable breakdown of social order within an apartment building outside London that’s been designed to approximate a community, “High-Rise” was a speculative fiction very much of the time when it was written. Hooking a movie viewer is different from hooking a reader. Wheatley is a smart, resourceful filmmaker who knows how to modulate his imagery. The visualization is crisp, definite, but discreet enough to not immediately provoke a scurrying to the exits. “High-Rise,” the new film directed by Ben Wheatley from a script by his regular collaborator (and wife) Amy Jump, begins with this scene, even with this sentence recited in voice-over. Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.” The sentence is quintessential Ballard: bone-dry, repellent and also deeply hooky, simple and precise while implying depths that the reader would be perhaps be well to fear exploring. ![]() ![]() Ballard novel upon which this movie is based: “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr. Spoiler alert: this is the opening sentence of the 1975 J.G. ![]()
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