{"id":557796,"date":"2023-03-01T01:40:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/white-plastic-sky-review-from-hungary-richly-realized-dystopian-world-building\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T01:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T22:40:15","slug":"white-plastic-sky-review-from-hungary-richly-realized-dystopian-world-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-plastic-sky-review-from-hungary-richly-realized-dystopian-world-building\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018White Plastic Sky\u2019 Review: From Hungary, Richly Realized Dystopian World-Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ad74d936db\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ad74d936db\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-plastic-sky-review-from-hungary-richly-realized-dystopian-world-building\/#%E2%80%98White_Plastic_Sky_Review_From_Hungary_Richly_Realized_Dystopian_World-Building\" >\u2018White Plastic Sky\u2019 Review: From Hungary, Richly Realized Dystopian World-Building<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/white-plastic-sky-review-from-hungary-richly-realized-dystopian-world-building\/#White_Plastic_Sky\" >White Plastic Sky<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98White_Plastic_Sky_Review_From_Hungary_Richly_Realized_Dystopian_World-Building\"><\/span>\u2018White Plastic Sky\u2019 Review: From Hungary, Richly Realized Dystopian World-Building<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Impressively bleak animated Hungarian sci-fi feature <em>White Plastic Sky<\/em> imagines a grim dystopia a hundred years from now where, like in <em>Soylent Green<\/em> (1973), older people are harvested at age 50, turned into trees so that they can become food for the younger generation. Except in this movie, the high-tech cannibalism is no state secret waiting to be blurted out by Charlton Heston, but a fact of life universally accepted phlegmatically by all. It only becomes a problem for protagonist Stefan (Tamas Keresztes) when his wife Nora (Zsofia Szamosi) decides to undergo the \u201cimplantation\u201d procedure at age 32, having lost the will to live since the death of their child. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Made using a striking blend of rotoscope-traced live actors and intricate CG-drawn background designs to build a richly detailed world, this could build a cult following off a warm reception in Berlin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"White_Plastic_Sky\"><\/span>\n<p>                    White Plastic Sky       <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Impressive world-building.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lrv-u-line-height-large a-children-icon-spacing-none lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-size-18\">\n<p>                            <strong>Venue:<\/strong> Berlin Film Festival (Encounters)<br \/><strong>Cast: <\/strong>Tamas Keresztes, Zsofia Szamosi, Geza Hegedus, Judit Schell, Istvan Znamenak, Zsolt Nagy, Marton Patkos, Renato Olasz<br \/><strong>Directors\/screenwriters: <\/strong>Tibor Banoczki, Sarolta Szabo<br \/><span><br \/>\n                                1 hour 51 minutes           <\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Rotoscoping is a technique that dates back to the earliest days of cinema but which has been revived of late thanks to features by Richard Linklater (including <em>Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly<\/em> and <em>Apollo 10 \u00bd: A Space Age Childhood<\/em>) and few animators scattered across Asia, including China\u2019s Liu Jian (whose latest, <em>Art College 1994<\/em>, competed at Berlin). Many animators used to look down on it as a kind of cheating because it\u2019s essentially tracing over live-action figures frame by frame to create animation. But lately it\u2019s become just another way to add realism, especially with facial expressions, to cartoon-making; it\u2019s just another <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach in the animation tool kit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Filmmaking collaborators Tibor Banoczki and Sarolta Szabo, who wrote, directed and designed most of the film themselves, deploy the technique skillfully to create a fully realized world that it would cost gazillions to render in live-action, enhanced with photorealist visual effects. Working with a number of well-established Hungarian character actors like Geza Hegedus and Istvan Znamenak (both were in <em>Taxidermia<\/em>), easily recognizable here, creates a sense of familiarity in a future world where everything happens in domed cityscapes and in a charred, barren landscape where nothing can grow. Many of the environments have vanishing points deep into the distance, creating a sense of overwhelming scale, a cross between old Soviet and Fascist architectural drawings and the eerie infinite spaces in Roy Andersson\u2019s <em>Songs from the Second Floor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With so much going on visually, the story itself gets a bit upstaged. But Stefan\u2019s journey to save Nora from turning into a tree has real poignancy, as well as a certain mythological heft via the parallels with the story of Apollo and Daphne. When we finally get to meet some sentient trees toward the end of the film, it all seems quite consistent with the logic of the film, and on-trend given that there\u2019s been so much written in the non-fiction world about how trees communicate with one another in real life via mycelium networks and pheromones. 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