This episode of Adjust Your Tracking is made up of two reviews, opens with Joe von Appen and myself briefly reminiscing about the podcast’s origins and then quickly spinning off into the films at hand. We split over Ben Wheatley‘s new apocalyptic class war picture “High-Rise” but nothing can stop us both from gushing over Yorgos Lanthimos‘ brilliant “The Lobster,” an dystopian sci-fi film with a hilarious sense of deadpan humor.
It’s in our nature on AYT to find connective tissue between the films we discuss every episode, arbitrary and/or loose though it may be, we just can’t resist. On the surface “The Lobster” and “High-Rise” may sound somewhat dissimilar. The former is set in a bizarre dystopic world where single folks need to find a mate in 45 days or be turned into an animal, and the latter is a rather faithful adaptation of the 1975 J.G. Ballard novel about social class wherein the residents in a luxury building descend into total chaos. But the class and societal strictures, accepted social norms and anti-utopian flavors leave for a lot of overlapping themes worth exploring. We also announce the next edition of HOLD UP, where we look back at a film one of us likes but we’re not sure how it looks now. “Lethal Weapon 2” is Joe’s latest pick, and we’ll discuss that film on our next episode.
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