Review of The Congress (2013) by Nizar E — 30 Dec 2013

I was really in need for a movie like that lately, I want a movie mixes the fantasy with reality to talk to my deeps. So it was "The congress", this year's "Cloud Atlas"! Welcome back Ari Folman, the novel needs more time and work to be surrounded, but still stunning film.

I really envy the way Folman uses as an animator. It's a horrible idea, what if no more actors need to make movies, just a kind of computer ensampling of them to have new movies. Don't think that is not possible in future, we already know this in video and PC sport games, so odds like that still exist. "Robin Wright" is characterizing herself in this, a middle-ages actress who has the last offer of a production company called (Miramount studio) in a greedy contract to scan her and sample her, then the computed figure will replace her in future movies for ever. While the period of the contract is the 20 next years, she could go to explore her reality and care her own stuff. "Robin" hesitated at first but she accepted in order to have more time for her ill son "Aaron". After these 20 years expired, she was to renew the contract, but inside the computed world, so she went there, and had the shock that greedy technology didn't stop at that degree, as Miramount wants to expose a chemical formula makes everyone be the person he want, such as the actor he loves, or a hero, or even Jesus! Robin refused and witnessed a revolution on the congress in the animated world, but she stuck inside and began her journey to find her son.

It's so strange, so deep, so bold, we had to read between the lines. It unmasks issues of intellectual copyright and the monopoly of stardom. It looks harsh to think we are just copies of real persons, or to erase the past to live in our dreams. The movie shouts "Wake up!" so plainly, we should be what we really are. The mixture between real actors and there animated figures was great, I love the power of colors in ambitious Folman movies he is a master in this. performances were strong as I expect.

The Congress is flavorful remarkable hallucination, a nightmare and a romantic dream at the same time, ringing the bell on unmoral usage of technologies. One of the best animated features I recently watched.