How much of Mythology, is really an Artistic Impression of Societal Predicaments. Just as the nature of comedies are often born from the most familiar contradictions. Like all film reviews, there are the ideologies that weaves the scripts and the sentiments that the production calls the director makes that splices scenes into reality. I confess. That the dreaded reviews this film had, had motivated my intents to write this review. This is a 2018 film, and I'm writing this four years after its release. Since its my fifth time rewatching it, you could tell, my affinity of its relevance is something that holds dear to me. There are several meticulous choices made by the director of this film, that nears the same magnitudes of charm that the Marvel/DC production possess. The story gambles on the fact that there are pre-existing cultural presumptions one has to understand, before one can appreciate a film like this. And I'm somewhat charmed by the fact that they didn't spend too much time running through the origin of these cultural archetypes. The casting was not directly obvious choices. But it is because that they are not obvious, that the story's done the job of convincing us, how these choices can so hauntingly seep into the ancient mythological archetypes from the judgements made from modern personality bias.
There are 4 previous reviews to this film. And non went above a 3 rating. So I shall dedicate the next half of my review about the pillar of this film maker's gamble. Humour. Only a comedian, has the audacity to take the arduous choice of adapting centuries of ancient mythological archetypes reconfiguring it to a modern context with ballsy choices. Like I said, appreciating Airpocalypse with no knowledge of the cultural background may well provide you with a different experience. But like all humour, gentle readers, they may come from a local place. And I am not from China. And I find the strands of humour pretty endearing. It's a funny film, and the momentum to it humour is amazingly consistent with how the storyline progresses. I implore you to flirt with a couple of hours of your life, to witness how unique this film is. Because I'll wish for more of this flavour of humour in my palette of films.
Like most of the filmophiles here, I rampage through films from all over the world as prescriptions to life's specificities. Some genres transcends time, some get consumed by time. However resourcefulness the world may appear to be, no production will ever have the capability to re-enact films from genres lost. Airpocalypse may not be a masterpiece. But there's a playfulness and ballsyness, that comes from somewhere honest, existing in a market that doesn't always appreciate a gem from it's value.
I'll give it 10 stars. Because that's how much I'll like to watch a sequel to this.
