Downsizing

Downsizing

  • Director: Alexander Payne
  • Writer: Alexander Payne,Jim Taylor
  • Countries of origin: United States, Norway
  • Language: English, Spanish, Norwegian, French, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese
  • Release date: December 22, 2017
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Thu Nhỏ
  • "Downsizing" is a sci-fi comedy produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Alexander Payne and starring Matt Damon and Kristen Carroll Wiig . The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2017   .
    The film tells the story of a middle-aged couple who voluntarily joined the shrinking plan to make themselves smaller in order to save money. As a result, only the husband became smaller, and the wife did not, so the contradictions between the two became more and more. What followed was a shrinking community around the world   .

    Details

    • Release date December 22, 2017
    • Filming locations Trollfjord, Lofoten, Norway
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures, Ad Hominem Enterprises, Gran Via Productions

    Box office

    Budget

    $68,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $24,449,754

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $4,954,287

    Gross worldwide

    $55,003,890

    Movie reviews

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    • By Marianna 2022-08-02 12:26:03

      Downsizing--Technology That Can Shrink People

      It tells the story of a middle-aged couple who voluntarily joined a slimming plan to make themselves smaller in order to save money. As a result, only the husband became smaller and the wife did not, so the conflicts between the two became more and more. Therefore, if you think that the movie just wants to reflect the midlife crisis of the couple by comparing different worlds and is therefore a simple and interesting comedy love movie, then you are wrong. Why? And listen to me slowly; this...

    • By Yvette 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      [Film Review] Downsizing (2017) 6.8/10

      Adding to the sub-genre of body-shrinking Sci-Fi cinema, like Marvel's ANT-MAN (2015), Alexander Payne's long-in-gestation passion project DOWNSIZING emerges as a damp squib since its premier in Venice as the opening picture, both critically panned and tanked in the box office front, adding insult to injury by Matt Damon's inappropriate opinion apropos of the raging MeToo movement, it is a pity...

    • By Daphney 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      The conflict is gone, look at the wool

      I thought Kristine didn't get smaller, and then brought the smaller matt home. The cp of a small husband and a big wife must be very interesting. I really want to see how they make love... But Kristine has gone and never returned, and even the divorce agreement was found. Lawyers handle.

      What's the difference between ll and tmd in Lilliput and the normal world? Where are the contradictions and conflicts? They are not afraid that people of normal size will be unhappy, and they can be...

    • By Pattie 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      Reduce the outlook on life

      1. When a person is alive, he must discover the meaning of his life. If he can't find the direction, he will limit himself to some illusory things, and then continue to be confused. In extreme cases, he will fall into a crooked cult and cannot extricate himself. I think that everyone must have their own short-term goals and long-term goals in life. After achieving each small goal, they should reward themselves in time, and they will find the joy of life and the trajectory of their own...

    • By Vivienne 2022-04-22 07:01:31

      Feeling uncomfortable throughout the viewing process

      Shrinking people through high technology can reduce expenses, but this process is irreversible, and this setting made me very resistant from the beginning. And maybe this feeling of discomfort is exactly what the film wants to create. It describes every detail of the process of human beings in the process of shrinking and shrinking. It lasts for a few minutes. I almost feel sick to my stomach. It's not that the picture is disgusting, but the sense of violation of psychological hints. Sooner...

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    • By Onie 2023-08-14 13:00:40

      Escape is edible but useless. Under the circumstance that the cost is similar, the cost of building a bad house looks...

    • By Dolores 2023-08-06 21:27:09

      Creates a real but very personal Asian female immigrant character who is tough and independent. How does it become a typical political correctness? How can it be stereotype racism? Use projection as interpretation, hehe. The Great Flood implies the phenomenon and mechanism of collapse caused by corruption, see Dr. Jordan Peterson's speech for details. Some people promise to "save the world" but never help the real...

    • By Adrianna 2023-07-14 15:52:15

      There are too many things to avoid in the play. If being downsized is a way to get rich, then why are there still bottom social figures like cleaners and taxi drivers in the villain world, who are at the bottom of the contempt chain. They are still at the bottom after shrinking, what is the significance of shrinking? The general concept is actually quite interesting, but the middle part has actually been separated from the concept of shrinking, and it is not the problem of...

    • By Deron 2023-06-19 01:05:52

      what is this! It is necessary to integrate into serious topics such as the mid-life crisis, population, environment, politics, immigration, the gap between the rich and the poor, etc., but the sense of separation is too serious, and the front and the back are almost two films. It was a bit interesting at the beginning, but after the second act, it started to get out of control. I wanted to put in a lot of things but I didn't say it well. The very good setting was completely...

    • By Miller 2023-03-15 18:03:24

      It involves too much old-fashioned political propaganda, and now it seems to be blatantly like a planted advertisement by the US Propaganda Department: Vietnam's tribute government persecutes opinions or something, which makes people laugh. Look on the Moscow rewinding...

    Movie plot

    Scientists in Norway have developed a technology that can reduce the size of a person's body to a height of only 5 feet, and they firmly believe that this technology will bring huge benefits to humans, because mini people can consume less than normal people. A large part of food and energy.
    Paul ( Matt Damon ) , a normal person struggling to maintain a family balance, he and his wife Audrey ( Kristen Carroll Wiig ) decided to shrink and...
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    Evaluation action

    The film tells the birth and development of its invention in a linearly progressive way of time, paving the way for the development and credibility of the story, and it takes a considerable amount of space to introduce the protagonist. The narrative is too regular and slows down the story invisibly. The rhythm and compactness. Regrettably, since then, I haven't dig deeper into the special experience caused by shrinking. It's the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Dusan Mirkovic: Friends tell friends the truth. Okay, maybe sometimes I'm a little bit asshole, but the world needs assholes. Otherwise where would shit go out.

    • Ngoc Lan Tran: Other night on boat, what kind of fuck you give me?

      Paul Safranek: What?

      Ngoc Lan Tran: What kind of fuck you give me?

      Paul Safranek: What kind? I don't...

      Ngoc Lan Tran: American people, eight kind of fuck. Love fuck, hate fuck, sex-only fuck, break-up fuck, make-up fuck, drunk fuck, buddy fuck, pity fuck.

    • [first lines]

      Dr. Andreas Jacobsen: [in Danish to technician who has rushed into his office] Yes, Jørgen?

      Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen: [in Norwegian] We have it... Andreas, we have it... It works!

      [the embrace]