#reviews
Second day of "Night Visions" festival movies. Spoilers due.
Invention (2024)
A daughter arrives to a small town to handle matters after her fathers death. They clearly have not been close and the life the father has been living quickly uncovers to be different than she expected, after endless interviews of the townsfolk and people he had surrounded himself with. A kind of TV miracle doctor, inventor of the "healing machine".
Does the machine actually do anything? Was the doctor a swindler or did he genuinely help people? Did big pharma "off" him?
I think the movie was trying to portrait the grief of a woman who lost their father. I couldn't really tie the whole healing machine and the loss of the father together, there seemed to be two different focuses going on.
Fight another day (2024)
In a dystopian future, the boss of a pharmaceutics company invents a time machine. What does he use it for? The benefit of humanity? No, lets make a TV show, pulling warriors (like, err, a cop) from history just before their death, giving them a second chance in life - that is if they survive a brutal arena where the historical combatants battle to the death using weapons of their era.
The idea is very interesting, though the background story of the world is somewhat weak like Israel at a human rights conference. There is a kind of story, albeit not a very interesting one. What the movie excels at are the combat scenes, warriors of different times facing each other in very, very brutal combat. Like I'm not sure how well I will sleep tonight kind of gore. I think the story was just pieced on top to somehow tie together lots of fight scenes. And based on the ending they kind of just gave up in the end.
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