And Payne’s takes particular aim at empty self-help promise sessions, the programs that tell you how much greener the grass can be on the proverbial “other side.”
Downsizing works as a sci-fi trial run, asking, and then proving, how poorly a possible global to the world’s various problems could go wrong.
Downsizing has a brilliant trick up its sleeve with regards to reaching one’s supposed “Happy Place,” and when it lands, it firmly establishes Downsizing on its unexpectedly dark track, producing shocking – and funny – results.
But I’m also amazed at how gracefully Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor wade into contemporary issues, such as the rights of immigrants, without being heavy handed.