Paesaggio con mano invisibile

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.

This film was pretty unexpected and unlike anything I've seen, and I think because of that it was a bit weird, like it had some narrative shifts. I loved the fact it touched on some pretty controversial topics, which is something I really enjoy under a Sci-fi lens.

Like distribution of wealth, what happens to native people in occupied land. It was really interesting.

The acting was pretty good, and the creature design was excellent in a way that it was very inhuman, and even communicated very differently, which was pretty cool. The film was well made with nice details, even down to the soundtrack.

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.

We found the movie fresh and fairly unpredictable, with some clear satirical references to race relations, reality TV and social networks, wealth disparity, and the fate of indigenous people.

The acting was fine, nothing cringe-worthy. At times, it felt like the director was the main actor's mom -- look at my boy, he's so pretty! But otherwise it was fine.

We really liked the aliens, who avoid most of the tropes of the genre. No humanoids with brow ridges here!

The special effects were well done, no problem with suspension of disbelief.

There is no real conclusion, and the future is frankly bleak, but the human spirit lives on (we hope?).

Worth watching simply because it touches on topics that most sci-fi is usually reluctant to even allude to.