By Internet Janitor
Directed by the Russo brothers, who are best known for their Marvel films such as Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War, have made a wonderfully inventive, colorful, heartfelt film with some of the best special effects I’ve seen in ages.
And yet it’s been the victim of a coordinated hate campaign for reasons I cannot even begin to understand. It’s not so much to dislike a film, you need to (for some people) make your mission to ensure it fails. It has an unusual look, not everyone likes Mille Bobby Brown (who is excellent), and I get it, Chris Pratt only plays Chris Pratt (and is the weakest part) and it in no way has to be everyones cup of tea but the virtoil, somecalling it “one of the worst of all time” is imbicilic.
The Electric State takes place in an alternate future, one where we’ve created a world where robots are involved in almost every aspect of our lives, and they even cut our hair. Yet, one day they turn on humanity, and a visionary (a term, thanks to Elon Musk, means very little anymore) named Ethan Skate (played by Stanley Tucci) creates a virtual reality system that can power other robots to efficiently fight off the invasion. The robots are sent to an exclusion zone, people are lost in the devices, and a young lady searches for her lost brother.
I love the looks of the robots here, many of which are whimsical and for gamers might remind you of Fallout, The Outer Worlds and others. It is based on the illustrated novel of the same name by Simon Stålenhag. Yes, it has a lot of messages, and I think they do not beat you over the head with them either. In it, humanity has given up, content to live in a VR world and let the real one rot away around them.
Sound familiar? Take someone’s phone away, take the internet away from some people today, and it would be as traumatic as their parents dying. It also dives into the real-life situation of “You’re not like us, you need to leave, you need to be destroyed.” For more information on that, please see the news—any news, any channel, any time of day.
Yet, if you don’t want to get into that, it’s just a bit of fun. The special effects are some of the best I’ve seen in a very long time. To me, the robots looked real, not like I was watching some fancy CGI creation. They had heart and personality. Millie Bobby Brown (from Stranger Things) does her best here, and I believe that her only mission in life was to reunite with her brother.
Love it if you want, hate it if you like but let’s just leave it as a bitchy review and switch out of your diapers.