Starring Zoë Kravitz, HBO Max Movie Is An Update On ‘Rear Window’ In The Days Of Virtual Assistants And Smart Speakers
“Kimi” slipped into the HBO Max grid with barely a sound a few months ago and is a perfect example of the bulk of the movies this type of platform should strive for: simple and well-told stories that leave someone with good taste in the background. mouth. Like other titles like the entertaining ‘Disturbia’, ‘Kimi’ returns to one of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces, ‘Rear Window’, adapting it to these new times of artificial intelligence, virtual assistants and smart speakers. The premise is simple: Amygdala, the company behind Kimi, a sort of Siri or Alexa, is about to go public. Angela Childs (Zoë Kravitz) works for this service, a young woman who is committed to correcting the common mistakes in understanding the system and improving the way Kimi listens and understands customers. All goes well until, in one of the audios the young woman receives to analyze, she hears what appears to be a crime.
From there, the young woman will try to unravel all the mysteries surrounding an issue that the company she works for doesn’t seem to want to hear or talk about. With a limited duration – barely more than an hour and a half, which seems almost a miracle at this point – ‘Kimi’ is an entertaining thriller, full of freshness, despite looking at and paying tribute to a classic, taking advantage of its limitations – it doesn’t have a big budget and it’s a movie with few characters and settings – to bring us closer to the fear that its protagonist tries to fight while solving the intrigue of the audio. Because Angela suffers from agoraphobia, a fear of open spaces and crowds that keeps her at home against her will, just as the main character of “Rear Window” had a leg in plaster and the child of “Disturbia”, a bracelet anklet in direct contact the police. And he amuses himself, as they did, watching his neighbors across the street. Her courage will be tested when she is forced to report the facts to her company.
To make matters worse, the recent coronavirus pandemic has plunged the protagonist even deeper into her problem. Yes, there are masks, and yes, they are part of the plot with such astonishing naturalness that you wonder why most fictions omit these two hellish years. The beauty of David Koepp’s succinct and brilliant script, architect of the scripts for films like ‘Panic Room’, the first ‘Spider-Man’ or ‘Jurassic Park’, is that he barely has to tell. It suffices to see the face masks, as an additional accessory, or the gesture with which the protagonist dries her hands every time the hydroalcoholic gel is applied. Something everyone can identify with. “It’s gotten to a point where we take a lot of notes on the scripts. But I finished this script and I didn’t have one. It’s so perfectly executed, so concise, so efficient, so playful… I couldn’t wait to see the movie to see,” Kravitz said in a recent interview.
‘Kimi’ does not play to complicate the plot and it is appreciated in an industry, that of celluloid, which is increasingly attached to the constant and absurd plot twists. Maybe that’s why it looks so comfortable, because it feels original, even if it doesn’t offer anything radically new or groundbreaking. Behind this proposal is, along with Koepp, Steven Soderbergh, restless filmmaker and creator of titles like ‘Erin Brockovich’, ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, ‘Contagion’ or the series ‘The Knick’, who dares to do the same in a great production full of big names, which you photograph ‘Disturbed’ with the iPhone as the only camera. He doesn’t always get it right, but he knows how to tell stories, he has a heart for the thriller and of course he knows by heart where to place the camera to wake up the viewer, who here to experience the overwhelm, fear and anxiety in which he lives. her own flesh the protagonist.
In that sense, Kravitz throws the full weight of the film on her back and once again shows that she is one of the most talented actresses of her generation. Along the way, exposés about the misunderstanding of those who live with mental illness, terrible companies and CEOs who only want to improve the results of their profits, whatever it takes, and a more satisfying ending than that of some movies. in which ‘Kimi’ can be seen. In short, a film that is pure entertainment for a craftsman of the seventh art.
‘Kimi’ is available on HBO Max.
Source: La Verdad
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