Kimi

With Kimi, director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp have dazzlingly updated Rear Window for the work-from-home age: their film puts a thrillingly contemporary spin on a vintage paranoia-drenched premise.

The film extend into impactful hyperbole the tensions inherent in the situation of being subjects of and subjects to incessant surveillance.

Soderbergh may not have intended Kimi to be a film primarily about the pandemic, but it understands intimately what it’s felt like to live through it.

Soderbergh, shooting and editing under his usual pseudonyms (Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, respectively), has a gift for satirizing corporate mundanity, and for making everyday minutiae mesmerizing. He can turn typing fingers and blinking cursors into the stuff of quietly engrossing drama.

It’s a snack of a movie, not so much a full meal, and that’s OK. There’s a lot of energy in this film; more than enough to get you through your afternoon.

Soderbergh fans and those looking for a slick thriller should be inclined to check KIMI out when they get a chance.

The most glaring problem here, and the one hardest to explain, is Soderbergh’s failure to elicit any warmth or charm from Zoë Kravitz, who has been consistently appealing in her every other screen performance, from blockbusters like the “Divergent” series to little independents like “The Road Within.”

O filme é legal, apresenta um drama interessante e uma narrativa intrigável.

Our hero is a tech whiz who has built herself a seamless workflow across two operating systems, but when the climax comes, she has to rely on the bad guys giving her time to speak three separate off-the-shelf commands to her voice assistant?

For close to thirty minutes, Kimi is a clever, in-the-now show... until it devolves into a cliche chase-movie with heaps of eye-rolling convenience and stupid bad guys.

bad [ bad ] adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36. not good in any manner or degree.

"Kimi" (HBO Max) stars Zoe Kravitz as a social shut-in juxtaposed against her job as a machine learning assistant for improvement of the Alexa-like product "Kimi". She overhears an assault on a woman via someone's Kimi and decides to get involved, regardless of what others signal or tell her, regardless of her phobias, regardless of everything, she sacrifices her life and others for an assumption of what she hears for a 5-sec span on a stranger's Kimi. I went through all that to show why you don't really care about her, she's acting outside the bounds of a realistic character and where does that usually lead? Right, disappointment. Oh and she does the "Home Alone" bit on some assassins so that's plausible, right? And she's in a mixed race relationship so Hollywood gets their we're-so-progressive bonus. It's another of many, many Covid-era wastes of our time.