A tantalising voyage into the world of political corruption, technological advancements open to vulnerable attacks, business empires owned by tycoons with delusional goals and selfish agendas. 2073 is another addition to the continuing expanding repertoire of speculative science-fiction, that at times ventures into the uncanny realms of real-world mundane life, and the surreal dimension that should leave viewers biting their nails, holding their breaths, tapping their feet in a nervous rhythm, and staring crystal eyed at the screen with their mouths wide open, which just might be big enough to swallow some hard hitting truths, that many refuse to acknowledge or even mention in casual conversation.
Presented as a docudrama/fiction picture, 2073 centres around a world destroyed by a cataclysmic event unknown. A world of ruin and despair, governed by an all seeing and all-knowing Big Brother-esque surveillance system, and flying drones. An underground belly of outsiders, fighting the system clashing against the wealthy who have retreated to their penthouse apartments within the sanctuary of the heavens. It is a world that has similarities to the works of many speculative and absurdist science fiction writers and thinkers of their ages. Intercutting between the present and rewinding to the past, the film draws parallels to the dangers that certain prolific people pose across many sectors, and the ticking time bomb that the human race has already negatively stumbled into. In many ways the prophesied future of 2073 cannot be unwritten, the torch paper has already been lit, the countdown has begun, and the whole world may be doomed to an explosive end.
Comments