Mélanie Laurent wakes up in a cryogenic pod in Alexandre Aja's Oxygène, and is desperate to get out, perhaps by calling for help, and at first it feels like sci-fied up version of the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Buried. Hey, it's 2021, and pandemic must as pandemic can. But it's more than just a slight sci-fi twist where she wrestles with an A.I. interface, or the fact that her memory's all scrambled so she doesn't know what's happening. The twists keep on coming, and coming, and the last half-hour is as tense a nail-biter as you're likely to see in this subgenre. And to bring it back to pandemic-era film making, that idea of being isolated, unable to see your loved ones, knowing there's a plague out there and it contributing to your anxiety... It's all here, along with existential questions, the kind you might have when your only contact with the world is through a computer screen. I could have done without the final, final shot, but otherwise, this was a nice surprise. Gotta say though, in French, the technobabble always sounds wrong to me, like something spit out by Google Translate.
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Mélanie Laurent wakes up in a cryogenic pod in Alexandre Aja's Oxygène, and is desperate to get out, perhaps by calling for help, and at first it feels like sci-fied up version of the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Buried. Hey, it's 2021, and pandemic must as pandemic can. But it's more than just a slight sci-fi twist where she wrestles with an A.I. interface, or the fact that her memory's all scrambled so she doesn't know what's happening. The twists keep on coming, and coming, and the last half-hour is as tense a nail-biter as you're likely to see in this subgenre. And to bring it back to pandemic-era film making, that idea of being isolated, unable to see your loved ones, knowing there's a plague out there and it contributing to your anxiety... It's all here, along with existential questions, the kind you might have when your only contact with the world is through a computer screen. I could have done without the final, final shot, but otherwise, this was a nice surprise. Gotta say though, in French, the technobabble always sounds wrong to me, like something spit out by Google Translate.chunkylefunga
It's very apparent that this movie borrowed heavily from buried.Saying that it did add it's own twists and turns to keep the movie fresh enough.
Worth a watch and keeps you entertained but I'd recommend you go watch buried if you want to see it done properly.