Aeon's Flux

seen aeon flux yet? the makers of this slick sci-fi flick have taken the original, brilliant, anime series by Peter Chung, and repurposed it with hot, hot charlize theron for us to trip on.

the story is set in a dystopia- this beautiful, futuristic city called 'bregna'. i say dystopia, because despite the fact that the city's beautiful, the inhabitants face great pains [constructed reality, yadaya, yes- like the matrix] and try to make sense of the world around them.

thats all i'm gonna reveal, for the benefit of those who haven't seen it yet. the film is filled with brilliant gimmicks from the anime, like the blades of grass, tommy-gun like trees that shoot spikes from fruit pods, water with colloidal particles that send messages from another person straight into the brain, bio- implants that enhance human functions like a zoom eyeball, implanted telecommunications. the arsenal of sci-fiism is killer. a must-see movie for action and charlize theron freaks.

but again. taking something classic and repurposing it has its limits. they've represented peter chung's vision well. but they haaad to overdo it. sigh.

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