By Robert Scucci
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I hate nostalgia because we all consider the past through pink glasses, and most of the time, revisiting the things we like to break the illusion of the way “things were better” at the time because they were really not. We were only children and we had no responsibilities or important people in our opinion, so we aspire in days when things were perceived as simpler, even if our parents probably also lost their heads on the same things that we panic today that we are all adults. So when I went to watch A24 Y2kI thought it would be your typical cash seizure for aging millennials so that they can obtain their essential dose of member berries before returning to “adult”.
I was so wrong in my evaluation because not only Y2k An unnecessary nuclear bomb, it is absolutely ruthless in its self -awareness, which allows it to make fun of the public simultaneously, to let them enter the joke, then to look so hard that it ceases to be funny, but only before coming back 10 times stronger and to let you stop for the breathing of the depth of its idiot.
At least that was my experience.
Difficult to speak without spoiling
I will give you the most basic story of Y2kAnd why I think it works because it is structured in such a way that I can let you enter the mechanics of the film without spoiling some of the big revelations.
A group of friends tries to plant a New Year’s party in 1999. At midnight, all hell stands out when each party apparatus is crazy; Tasters, mixtures, magnetoscopes … You call technology, and it faded, cringe or breaking the faces of a bunch of innocent adolescents in the most brutal way possible.
A computer feels Macintosh absorbs other closeby devices and turns into a mega bot that hunts children through the woods as if it were Jason Voorhees.
A girl who embodies each technological nerd trope of the 90s (think Pirates) knows everything about mainframes, malicious software and knows exactly how to eliminate the robot uprising because it designed the school shit website … or something.
A lot of Moi bizkit.
As I said, it is all incredibly stupid, but that’s the point.
Why it works
Without appropriate context (grow in the 90s, or at the very least be aware of what children were if you were an adult), Y2k Humor will be lost for you, and it’s okay. But if you are on the joke, you will realize that each Simples The Trope of Reference and Technological Film from the decade which inspired this film is performed perfection.
Of course A VCR, which is not connected to the Internet, is able to take sensitivity because it is simply seated near something that is connected to a modem. Of course Rop boards destroy young people. And I know I didn’t say spoilers, but Of course Fred Durst will put his red yankees cap back as if he was himself bringing together his hammer because the day of the calculation started and we need a fearless hero to help direct human resistance against the robot uprising.
It’s true, we have essentially a modern version of Happage of the shopping center The technology combined with seriously very large naked metal riffs, which gives the impression that all the production has been sponsored by Jolt Cola.
The best way to describe Y2k is a love letter aware of oneself to nostalgia for the 90s designed for people who absolutely hate this kind of thing. Looking at Y2kI never said to myself once, “it’s cheap”, but I rather woke up my family several times because I laughed at the ridicule of all this – all the film takes place like something that our parents would make us in the 90s in a wrong attempt to look cool in front of their children.
Your mileage can vary
Listen, you will love Y2k Or hate absolutely, which is good. But if you are of a certain age, suck up the good old days but you cannot exceed your own cynicism, and you need good laugh at your expense because the only way you know how to feel emotions is by self-flagellation, then you are in such a treat.
And for everyone hates this film … I understand. I know very well that it is the most stupid film that I saw in about a decade, but it is so satisfactory to look at what starts as a retro-futureist teenager generic shout The film comes out so quickly from the rails and continue to shamelessly forging its own path because it absolutely demolishes your expectations with each scene that passes while each character plays it completely.
Y2k East SO Dumb and over the top, but that doesn’t try to be something else. And for that, he has my infinite respect because I have never laughed so strong science fiction “Thriller” for a very long time.
To date, you can broadcast Y2k on max.
