The new independent film “Strawberry Mansion” creates a wild science-fiction world that satirizes grim trends of modern life while tapping into a haunted realm of frustrations and desires.
American movies are drowning in fantasy, but far more dire than its quantity is its quality. The absolute power of C.G.I. has been harnessed mainly by corporate producers who’ve turned movie fantasies into dominant forms of world-spanning, mind-numbing propaganda. Yet, at its best, fantasy is both a way of representing realities too enormous to grasp at ground level and an imaginative liberation from daily constraints.
The future, as sketched in colorfully decorative detail by Audley and Birney, resembles the recent and superseded pre-digital past. The filmmakers’ apparent nostalgia instead sketches, with ironic charm, a dire view of 2035, when digital image-making and image-disseminating tools are taken out of the public’s hands, even out of the government’s hands, and reserved for ubiquitous and dominant commercial forces.
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