Review of High Life (2018) by Eva3Si0N — 01 Nov 2022

High Life isn't what it seems after watching the trailer. At first glance, it might seem like a Sci-Fi space thriller. But already at the 10 minute you understand that High Life is completely about something else.

This is a philological film asking the viewer questions about the meaning of human existence, the meaning of life itself and what we leave behind. High Life is not aimed at the mass audience, it will be boring and uninteresting to most viewers, especially those who expect Sci-Fi from the film.

After all, all this is not here. The plot is also presented non-linearly, the motivation of the heroes is not spelled out in any way by the script. High Life film in which no one explains anything, there are only references to the films of Kubrick and Tarkovsky.

The only metaphor that is tracked in the film: people are animals, regardless of the cultural and intellectual development of society. It's boring and flat. By the end, the film finally falls apart from its unspoken.

I don't even know who you can recommend High Life to, for me personally this is an empty film that just wants to seem like the Cosmic Odyssey of Kubrick or Solaris Tarkovsky.