Adam Campbell
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Landscape with Invisible Hand is a 2023 American science fiction film written and directed by Cory Finley, based on the 2017 novel of the same name by M. T. Anderson. The film stars Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, and Tiffany Haddish.
Landscape with Invisible Hand. When an occupying alien species' bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures.
- (3.6K)
- Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Cory Finley
- 2023-11-16
Aug 18, 2023 · It’s 2036 AD, and space aliens have not only landed on Earth, but also maybe forever changed the economy, too. That’s the main premise of “Landscape with Invisible Hand,” a satirical sci-fi comedy based on M.T. Anderson’s award-winning young adult sci-fi novel.
Aug 17, 2023 · “Landscape With Invisible Hand” mashes up the teen romantic comedy and alien-invasion horror genres to campy, mixed results.
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By Erik Adams
Updated: Aug 19, 2023 12:20 pm
Posted: Aug 19, 2023 12:13 pm
It can be difficult to watch Landscape with Invisible Hand and not feel a bit like the boxy, slug-like race at the center of its alien-invasion allegory. As introduced in the M.T. Anderson novella of the same name, the vuuv look upon humanity with a mixture of fascination and condescension, their keen (but shallow) fixation on romance and visual art fueled by having evolved beyond both as a species. Craning their artfully rendered eyestalks in the direction of an aspiring painter like Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk), the vuuv slap and scrape their textured, paddle-like appendages together and their Alexa-like translation devices burble out “What purpose does it have?” Given its near-future United States of widespread unemployment, shuttered schools, and financially devastating terms of service, the purpose of director Cory Finley’s anti-capitalist satire is never in doubt. And yet you may still find yourself staring intently at Landscape with Invisible Hand and puzzling: A concept this potent and imaginative, in the hands of such an exciting and promising young talent – shouldn’t it be better?
In an exceedingly clever and almost too-close-to-home touch, these disruptors from beyond the stars eliminate toil and inefficiency across their latest global acquisition and pass none of the savings on to the majority of Earthlings. And so a stratified society only becomes more so, as represented by the hovering vuuv settlement that renders Adam’s hometown into the corporate-architecture version of a Boston album cover and the upstairs/downstairs dynamic the big-hearted teen inadvertently creates when he invites the family of new-kid-in-town Chloe Marsh (Kylie Rogers) to crash at the Campbell house.
That cracked rom-com setup mostly just gives Finley the opportunity to demonstrate his flair with a close-up.
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When Adam and Chloe fall in like with one another, they hatch a scheme to bail their folks out of financial jeopardy: Turning their budding relationship into a monetized livestream for the TV-obsessed vuuv, broadcast via the neural “node” that enables the kids’ immersive, high-tech curriculum. At first, this development is positioned as the nucleus around which Landscape with Invisible Hand orbits, but its cracked rom-com setup mostly gives Finley the opportunity to demonstrate his flair with a close-up. The story actually being told here is an ensemble piece indebted to the slice-of-life vignettes that make up Anderson’s book.
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Landscape with Invisible Hand is brimming with ideas and storylines, but they never come together as a satisfying whole. The visual ingenuity director Cory Finley demonstrated in Thoroughbreds and Bad Education is on display here – and it works well with slimy, slug-like CGI aliens – but the sci-fi satire lacks an Anya Taylor-Joy, Hugh Jackman, or ...
Years into a benevolent alien occupation of Earth, the human race is still adjusting to the new world order and its quirky coffee table-sized overlords called the Vuvv. Their flashy advanced ...
- (87)
- Sci-Fi, Comedy
- R
Aug 18, 2023 · Adapted by M.T. Anderson's novel of the same name, Landscape With Invisible Hand centers on Adam Campbell (Asante Blackk), a Black American teenager scraping by on an Earth now run by an...
8.0/10 (4612 reviews)
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