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Critics Consensus: The Human Surge is bravely idiosyncratic, although its more inscrutable elements may prove distancing for some viewers.
Critic Consensus: The Human Surge is bravely idiosyncratic, although its more inscrutable elements may prove distancing for some viewers.
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Though the picture is admirable on a conceptual level, its execution is incoherent, interminable and a colossal strain on the eyes.
Just when you think you've got the movie pegged, it pulls a daring switch of perspective. While the thrill of that little coup is short-lived, it suggests that Mr. Williams may come up with something more substantial with his next feature.
This is a heckuva stimulating cinematic achievement for a relative newcomer. The Human Surge offers a shrewd commentary on the dissonance of technological connectivity and personal communication.
Surreal and wordlessly unsettling, Eduardo Williams' globe-crossing feature The Human Surge is intimate and pleasurably inscrutable.
Lacking in narrative or character (the film is all theme and no story), the payoff moments for all one's carefully invested attention are few and far between.
Williams sympathizes with his protagonists, though his film is too fluid and keen on catching the quirkiness of everyday speech and capturing languid moods to act as agitprop.
This is post-Costa cinema, slow but chopped to average feature length, puzzling, engrossing, and alienating.
In Williams' film, this pulse of energy is everywhere, running through and between all of the subjects: human, animal, material, ambient, and machinic.
There are two bravura shots in The Human Surge... Otherwise, well, it's tough going.
Williams's bewildering, sinuous film encourages us to realise that getting lost is a destination in itself.
There is something exasperating in the way it withholds the pleasures of film from its audience, allowing long stretches to unfold with no lighting and semi-audible dialogue.
Starting in Argentina, ranging to Mozambique and the Philippines, The Human Surge picks figures from the blur of the modern world and depicts them in shadowed motion, language an indistinct gesture, too.
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