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rosecarmine - Resources: Yusuke Kamiyamane and Atle Mo
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Date: 2020-07-22 01:49 am (UTC)Media: Single Movie
Time commitment? 1 hr 36 min
Where to find it? Available on Amazon for $5.99, streaming for free on Pluto TV, whatever that is.
What is it?
The official blurb is, "In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO." To go a little more into that, the trainee is a psychic, and the head of the gang is a scarred up, former prostitute Lena Headey. Karl Urban plays Dredd, the experienced Judge, and acts ferociously with the quarter of his face that's visible. It's something I originally watched expecting it to be a big dumb action movie, and it's actually a tightly plotted, surprisingly clever action movie!
What do you love about it?
Cassandra Anderson!! Idealistic psychic trainee undergoing a trial by fire and coming out tempered and strong!! This is one of my favorite dystopias ever, because the movie has a very narrow focus but the world is entirely built out (the benefit on being based on decades of comics but not feeling the need to fit everything in, I suppose!). It's compared to The Raid a lot, with the same feeling of a small group moving through a single building, so if you've seen and liked The Raid, there's that.I'm really all about the big three mains -- Dredd, Anderson, and MaMa, the villain. MaMa is a different sort of villain than women tend to get to be, especially ones who have done sex work: she's vicious and calm and quiet and not at all sexualized (except by me, because Lena Headey). Dredd hits a lot of fun repression/law and order/seething fury buttons and is very fun in contrast to both Anderson and MaMa.
Basically: do you like repression? Violence? Non-sexualized female leads? Interesting worldbuilding and dystopias? You might like Dredd!
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?
Anderson, worldbuilding, and case-fic. I've requested Dredd in a.... large amount of exchanges, so if you want to look at some of my previous requests, my dreamwidth is exclusively exchange letters.
Content warnings: Violence, drug use, one brief scene of imagined rape