In a dystopian future a young man recieves a call from his mother that she needs to speak to him. On the way home from work during a raging storm he sees her leap into a river. In an effort to save her he ends up in a coma. A year later he finds things have changed. As he struggles to find a new place he tries to use technology to come to terms with the loss of his mother.
Like it or lump it drama is going to either thrill you or make you crazy. The problem with the film is that it is artifiically constructed. The world and the narrative thread exist not because they are connected to reality but simply because the filmmakers (and the writer of the novel before them) have decided to bend things this way. Events don't happen naturally, but simply because the they have to go this way so that the narrative choices will make sense.
Yes the film has a great deal to say about the way the world is, the use of A.I. and other modern turns of events, but at the same time the framing of the themes is too artifiical to actually connect to our brains. We feel like we are being lectured to instead of being talked to.
This really didn't work for me.
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