Paisaje con Mano Invisible

This film is a mixed bag of genres that really didn't work when combined. The story started off with so much promising potential with the initial premise being very creative, then it devolves into a narrative that was just too convoluted, inconsistent, lacking impact, and riddled with tonal inconsistencies that will leave you scratching your head. Even the attempts at humor were more cringe than laughs.

The filmmaker's ambition surpassed his execution, that struggled to balance a social commentary, a coming-of-age romance, and a sci-fi dystopian cautionary tale. Sadly, the film ends up failing on both dramatic and comedic levels, and ultimately is underwhelming and will leave you feeling frustratingly unsatisfied, especially the ending, which felt lazy and rushed.

I will credit this film with some impressively staged sequences and set pieces with great performances by all cast members, but that wasn't enough to overshadow this film's failure to tell a compelling story. Maybe in the hands of better filmmakers, this may have been a hit, but as is, it's a miss, and a loss of 105 poorly paced minutes I'll never get back. It's a generous 6/10 for the great concept, performances, cinematography and score.

The Vuvv represent all the worst aspects of modern, neo-liberal capitalism, imposing a world order in which one can only survive by being their direct servants, their paid mouthpieces (and they'll alter your message or art to make sure its acceptable), or by underbidding everyone else to sell one's labor, although that last option leaves you and yours only barely scraping by.

Unions are obviously a thing of the past, and cultural imperialism is being implemented to assimilate humans into the Vuvv way. It's all straight out of the playbooks of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Reason and The Economist, The Cato Institute and more think tanks than you could shake a stick at. Unfortunately for humanity, the Vuvv breath life into a theory and practice of neo-liberalism, whether it's called Reaganism, Thatcherism or Blairism, that is intellectually and empirically worn out, and can now only be implemented by fascists wearing a populist face.

In other words, Landscape with Invisible Hand stands in the grand tradition of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, hiding themes and messages meant for today behind science fiction trappings. Overall, it's a good film, and a nice break from dystopian fiction in the style of A Quite Place, The Walking Dead and The Rest of Us.

Brilliant, and most who watch this will most likely not understand its message, it will cause anger, boredom and confusion i bet too if u dont understand it.

The movie had an deep and intriguing concept overall, i have watched so far 665 movies, and have to say this ones original too.

The movie addresses the reality of what life is like for the race that is not the dominant one, which we have also had to see through our own human history in a form of race discrimination.

This is pretty much an Alien story mirrored view of American history.

Just the same way Europeans came to America, Removed the traditions, culture. The movie even quickly tells about the subject of changing the less dominant races expressive passive aggressive but realistic art to be more kind and less truth expressive.

The movie can piss you off so its pretty ironic to understand we have done exactly the same to other human races.

The movie captures it also very well how a better wealthier dominant race, can offer shtty or even degrading jobs to the lower race, with an suprisingly high reward/salary, for which ofc the lower status race is happy to do.

(we really should fix this in our modern societies... Some countries still do this to immigrants. NO EQUALITY BETWEEN RACES.)

Ofc theres also the basic arrogance from the American people in the story, which did not surprise me, but what surprised me was how in one scene the alien did not do the thing which dominant race usually does when getting disrespected... Or atleast what an disrespected dominant human would do: Destroy the rebellion/resistance. Somehow the whole ordeal was just ignored and forgotten.

There was also no fighting or war between the humans and aliens, which also is not very accurate thinking humans react naturally with violence when under fear or threat.

But im sure the Natives of Americans felt just the same about these more advanced invaders coming into their land to take it over, cant do nothing else than to bow and kneel.

Also shows the subject of greed and ignorance in humans. Deep subjects in this movie, thats why i rated it so high, gave me good thoughts and the subject is something we should all reflect on.

The acting also works, the actors feel natural and the movie is immersive too.

Tiffany Hadish, who stars in this movie, is a Producer. As well as Brad Pitt. As some reviews state it is "weird sci-fi." I thoroughly enjoyed it as something very different. My wife enjoyed it less, she likes movies which are neatly tied up at the end and this one isn't.

The premise is an intelligent, advanced alien species, called the Vuvv, started observing Earth and its inhabitants back in the 1950s and in the early 2030s decided to make "first contact." Now, in 2036, they have firmly established themselves with giant floating cities that also accommodate the ultra wealthy. More ordinary people still live their usual lives but all are close to poverty and find ways to scratch out a living.

The Vuvv don't appear to be threatening but somehow are able to impose their will on Earthlings. One early example, as students show up for the beginning of a school day they are told they can all go home, they will all learn via remote access, teachers are no longer necessary.

Some professional reviewers rate this movie very low, others rate it very high. Similar with user reviews. Some think it is an allegory based on how European settlers a few hundred years ago took over the lands and cultures of the Native Americans and relegated them to a minimal existence. Myself? I am not sure what to think but I found the novelty to be very interesting and entertaining.

I always like to make sense of the title of a movie and yet I am not sure about "Landscape with Invisible Hand." Maybe it is a reference to the young character Adam who draws and paints, and near the end he paints a whole school wall with a variety of images, a sort of landscape of their current existence.

My wife and I watched it at home, streaming on Amazon Prime. I might watch it again after I let it digest a bit.

It was an interesting premise for sure but it got way to obvious way too soon for me. There was a lot to explore here and it could have been entertaining and thought provoking but it didn't really provoke many thoughts of merit, felt a little bit flat and boring.

The theremin music was just too obvious a choice and steered it in the predictable direction and vibe of it all.

It just didn't click and it should have. There were lots of interesting ideas in it but the characters didn't all work and ultimately my attention drifted till I didn't feel like watching it in one sitting, and there it stopped.