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let's talk about The Assessment the
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Assessment is a science fiction film
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about a dystopian future in which
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humanity is sparse living in places that
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are sealed away from the
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outside the terrors of the outside where
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people do not live long within a
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protective dome people are living into
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hundreds but life is very structured and
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procreation must be regulated by the
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government they will assess a couple to
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see if they're worthy of having a
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child uh a couple played by Himish Patel
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and of course Elizabeth Olsen they play
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Mia and Arian uh they work uh at home
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they work out of their homes uh Aryan uh
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works on digital animals he creates
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them uh Elizabeth Olsen's character
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she's a botonist who works with plants
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she has an orchid that represents her
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mother that she has kept alive for a
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long time and an assessor comes out to
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and uh really that's where things go a
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muck and uh the assessor is named
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Virginia played by Alysia Vikander and
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she comes to assess them based on their
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parenting skills and do during the
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assessment she's trying to see how they
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react to a when a child may be put in
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situations um Virginia starts acting
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child she's at breakfast throwing things
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on the floor she's testing their their
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patience she takes a liking to the
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father figure Arian but is in conflict
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with the mother Mia who is frustrated
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with her and she spends a week in their
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home asking them questions and putting
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them through various trials and tests
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um this is a Black Mirror episode
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extended into a feature uh it was a
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little tiresome in the middle but I have
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to say had a a surprise ending that I
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quite enjoyed it's good to see Elizabeth
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Olsen not play a superhero uh Hamish
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Patel I've also liked in other roles
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he's very good and very different for
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him um this might have made a better
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onehour uh Black Mirror episode but what
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it what it really does is drive home the
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type of responsibility and the types of
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simple everyday challenges that face all
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parents um danger of death or harm
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coming to a child even things one of the
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ch trials is assembling a toy house
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which ends up being incredibly
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frustrating and when they assemble it
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there's one piece left over they can't
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figure out how they have one leftover
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piece that they then hide from their
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assessor because that that that might be
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count against them um it's very smart
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it's a little long might have made
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better at 90 minutes but in the end I
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really like the assessment uh mainly
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because of the performances of the three
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leads Elizabeth Olsen uh Alicia Vicander
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and Hamesh Patel so I'm giving it a
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decent recommend 6 and a half to seven
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in that range again if you're not into
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sci-fi you're not going to like to begin
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with but I also think from a premise
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standpoint might have been better better
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as Black Mirror but I like lowbudget
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horror it's excuse me sci-fi it's
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lowbudget sci-fi and what it grapples
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with is ideas there's not there's some
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you know spectacle and you know you see
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get some tastes of what the outside
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might be and what technology is like so
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um but in the end a good low-budget
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sci-fi that gets a slight recommend from
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me and there you go what is the tone of
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the film is it comedic creepy
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funny things happen it's not comedic at
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all um but you know humorous things
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occur but it's not funny it's not funny
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at all straight drama then it's Yeah
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straight drama and uh god Alicia
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Vicander she's so annoying but then you
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realize like why she's doing all this
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and that's what makes it worth it
