The Future (2011)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 102
Fresh: 73 | Rotten: 29
A dark and whimsical exploration of human existence that challenges viewers as much as it rewards them.
Average Rating: 7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 8
A dark and whimsical exploration of human existence that challenges viewers as much as it rewards them.
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When Sophie (Miranda July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) decide to adopt a stray cat, their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves. -- (C) Official Site
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Hamish Linklater
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Miranda July
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David Warshofsky
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Isabella Acres
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Joe Putterlik
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Angela Trimbur
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Not a crowd-pleaser by any measure, but a mature, bold and recklessly inquisitive film, however unpleasant it is to consume in the moment.
Top CriticMiranda July may be a bit too weird for her own good. On the other hand, it is a glorious weird.
Provides plenty of material for July junkies as well as July detractors.
What a strange, trippy, touching movie The Future is.
July is a provocative and honorably independent filmmaker, but given the meager rewards of investing our time, "The Future" wasn't worth the wait.
At times - not all the time, just enough to notice - July gets it backward.
Parece apenas interessado em lançar o meme dos "Lolcatz" como gênero cinematográfico.
Miranda July takes the twee and cute thing WAY too far this time
This strange film reminds me of some stories by Franz Kafka, such as 'The Trial.' It is a story which makes no sense when viewed objectively, but hangs together well enough as a subjective experience.
Nobody but July could have made a film so defiantly insufferable.
July's new film isn't as witty or touching as her debut but she still manages in her off-kilter way to say something original about her characters' hopes and fears and illusions... but viewers with an aversion for whimsy should probably steer well clear.
It's parodic Sundance independent cinema - pure, aimless, triple-brewed whimsy.
Many viewers, especially her detractors, can't see the forest for the twee in July's films. That's certainly true of "The Future" - but burrow down past the creepy-cutesy touches, and you find a film that's painfully real.
You end up feeling sorry for the cat but not for Sophie and Jason, who seem unable to deal with life, love or, in fact, anything.
July's film-making is a taste I have yet fully to acquire, but she has a distinctive vision, a style, placed before you on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. I took it.
July, who gave us the lovably odd Me and You and Everyone We Know, has layered on so much self-conscious whimsy - monologues from the cat, dialogues with the moon and other dashes of magical realism - that the central drama struggles to be heard.
A playfully self-aware dig at the emptiness of some modern lifestyles that will make you check your own.
I've seen The Future...and it's not bad at all.
July's romantic fantasy of stagnation and romantic drift has depths, but they're hidden behind walls of kookiness.
July's second film, while not quite as perfectly realised as her debut, nimbly avoids the 'sophomore slump', providing the curious with another window into her highly idiosyncratic world.
Kooky indie experimental film that might have something intelligent to say about leading a weird life, but was such a tiresome watch that it turned me off.
whimsy both conceals and sugars some rather bitter observations on change and mortality.
As they contemplate the difference between a couple of months and five years, Sophie and Jason begin to think more substantively about time.
It's easy to be distracted by the talking cat or the talking moon, but they are merely wallpaper over a yawning chasm of panic and disappointment.
Audience Reviews for The Future
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- Sophie: I always want to follow the news, but then I'm so far behind, and now its just like, what's the point?
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- Jason: If it's gonna work out could you just give me a little indication?
- Joe The Moon: I don't know anything. I'm just a rock in the sky.
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- Jason: Do you think if I move my hand it would be morning by now?
- Joe The Moon: Morning? It would be Friday.
- Jason: What?
- Joe The Moon: It has been 3:14 for days now.
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- Jason: Everything must look so familiar to you. It must feel like you are coming back to the place that you loved. It must be nice. But it's gone, by the way. This is a totally new land now.
- Sophie: Okay.
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- Sophie: I wish I was just one notch prettier. I'm right on the edge, you know? Where it's up to each person to decide for themselves. I have to make my case with each new person.
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- Jason: Well, you know how...how like in the cartoons, when the building gets hit with the wrecking ball, right before the building falls down, there's always like this moment where it's perfectly still, right before it collapses? We're in that moment. The wrecking ball has already hit all of this, and this is just the moment before it all falls down.
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