Lapsis (2020) (original) (raw)
Synopsis
Your life belongs to the machines.
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
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Popular reviews
A movie that’s basically an allegory for Amazon workers is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Oh, the irony!
A pretty good Black Mirror (which makes it better than any actual Black Mirror), but also like most _Black Mirror_s it has a crummy ending.
I'm sure a lot of people will compare this to Black Mirror and it definitely has the vibe as a sci fi alternate version of the world. So much feels alien, but it's also exactly the same.
Overall, Lapsis is a really engaging story that looks at the exploitation of every day people while the rich get richer. Great acting across the board, easy recommend!
real good 5gpilled working-class sf/comedy that honestly gets modern jobs (gig/app shit) more than s*rry to b*ther y*u but shares that movie's problem of never 100% convincing you of the reality of its world or serious/miserable shittiness of its jobs (scenes in the final 3rd seem less like intriguing art-movie vagueness & more like poor moviemaking communication) still, its sincere, smart & hilarious, the mickey rourkeish sweetheart-paisano lead (w/ the irl madmax villain name DEAN IMPERIAL) is a true discovery & a star while its chirpy 'zonian dystopia has so many on-point verhoeven-level details im gonna recall anytime im forced to see nugget-headed cartoon ads for "google fi" or login to my personal celly for another year of a pt-wfh job w/ no health insurance, some of my fav gags & scenes in any movie from 2021 - recommended!
give someone a name like Lapsis Beeftech and then act surprised when they stab you in the back, I dare you
LAPSIS captures the specific hell of the gig economy and tech disruption better than any film I've ever seen.
It's the near future, or maybe an alternate present. The world's financial markets are booming thanks to quantum computing. Quantum computing demands quantum cabling. Enter 'cablers', who are dispersed throughout the wilderness, guided by app-based software, to tow reels of cable through challenging routes. Like an Uber driver crossed with a tree planter, cablers buy into the promise of hard up-front work and significant remuneration on the back end.
Ray is a blue collar worker (he mentions working in sanitation but seems to be driving some sort of delivery van at the start of the movie) with a kid brother named…
Some people are afraid of spiders, clowns, heights, elevators, sharks, tornados, etc. Jeff Bezos is scared of this movie
6.2 / 10
Social concerns once again stand at the vanguard of this new dystopian parable from documentarian Noah Hutton, who previously exposed the oil industry's adverse effects on the environment with his debut feature in 2009's Crude Independence. The film plays fast and loose with genre aspects, many of which are broad and unambiguous; however, it unfurls with enough information delivered in a piecemeal manner to enlarge both the story's layers and its characters.
Set in a near-future society, it follows delivery man Ray (Dean Imperial) taking an unusual job to subsidise himself and his debilitated younger brother Jamie (Babe Howard). He soon participates in something that faintly resembles a pyramid scheme in the quest for some fast money, joining hundreds of…
I appreciate Coworker Who Tells You At Length How You Are Being Fucked Over By Capitalism representation.
I was really into this, and hooked into finding out where it was going to go. Unfortunately it didn’t go anywhere very interesting. It’s clear that it’s a take on the gig economy and it does that well but I’d have liked to have seen something more from the Sci-Fi element.
One of the most original and downright fascinating films I've seen in a while.
There are definitely shades of Black Mirror with how a nightmarish technology is the backdrop for social and economic commentary, I do love the relatively simple setup a lot of indie efforts adopt that allows them to build relatable and often everyday characters around their intriguing premise.
A really wonderful set of performances and some philosophical questions along the way to keep you wondering, Lapsis is certainly one for fans of sci fi and offbeat satirical thrillers alike. I'd recommend reading as little as possible of even the synopsis on this place for the maximum hit too, I think it deserves both your attention and time.
I spent the whole film not knowing what the hell was going on and was convinced that that was Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit with hair shaved to look balding. My gast have never been so flabbered that it was not :o