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‘2073’ Review: Dystopia is Inevitable in Asif Kapadia’s Busy but Despondent Docufiction
Samantha Morton stars in Asif Kapadia's "2073" as a survivor of a near-future catastrophe, delivering the urgent message that we're already screwed.
Perhaps “ 2073,” his new hybrid docufiction is a natural expansion of that impulse — a blend of archival footage, CG enhancement and speculative fiction that applies similar retroactive dismay to a cautionary tale about a near-future dystopia, and the current rising tide of everything-is-terrible that may bring it about. The perspective is further distorted by Ghost’s tale of woe, which is cobbled together from stories she heard from her grandmother, unfurling in a blizzard of clips culled from existing news reports and viral memes, all slathered in Antonio Pinto’s insistently emotive score. But mainly Kapadia and co-writer Tony Grisoni find plenty of material that’s chilling enough without alteration: houses floating away in floods, forest fires, brutal police arrests, riots, Uyghur detention camps and Mark Zuckerberg trying to remember to blink.
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