Fast forward to their various funerals and Veronica (Viola Davis) widow of the gang leader is passed a safety deposit key. The box it opens contains her husband's notebook, filled with detailed plans for past jobs and also the next one.
Wanting nothing more to do with the criminal life Viola tries to sell on the plans but events conspire against her and she must take on the next job. She turns to her fellow widows Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) to pull it off.
Waking, tied to a chair among urban decay, an obviously distressed Jay receives an explanation from Hugh about how she now "has it" and should listen very carefully or "it" will kill her.
CW: Mechanical sex without intimacy that's effectively assault. A little bloody violence but nothing to write home about.
THX and LUH are centrally assigned roommates. THX is struggling with mental composure and concentration and seeks advice from a confessional style automated booth that reassures him that his dose cannot be increased and everything is as it should be. It becomes clear LUH has been switching THX's drugs and may have been doing so for a while. That night they have sex.
A colleague of LUH, SEN has LUH reassigned and plans to become his new roommate. SEN seems to be some form of computer hacker or criminal but it's not clear exactly what his long term plan might be. THX reports SEN's criminality on his way to work and is highly agitated.
In the background, the panopticon watches all this and the anonymous android police are despatched to detain them all.
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After witnessing the escalating harassment of new student Lucy (Alycia Pascual-Peña) and inspired by the forgotten mementos of her mother's grungey rebellious feminist past Vivian starts to publish the scrappy 'zine "Moxie" calling out the behaviour of the school's "jock" contingent.
The acts of rebellion spiral and Vivian begins to lose her way and her connections with those around her.
Then Zack Snyder's daughter committed suicide and he stepped down from the project.
Joss Whedon got brought in to finish it off, more rumours of production problems of different kinds. The thing with Henry Cavill's moustache. Generally poor reception of other DC releases etc. all set it up to fail.
The theatrical release is a bit rubbish in places. Some people love it, some hate it but I think it's just sort of OK, with a VERY dull CGI antagonist and terrible boss fight at the end. It looks like a movie that went through development & production hell.
Snyder got back into working, didn't like what he saw and buoyed up by his fans finally got momentum to rebuild his idea of what Justice League should have been.
This is that movie. Sort of.
Samples of life taken from some of the Earth's great forests are used to recreate them in miniature inside domes attached to gargantuan commercial freighter spaceships orbiting Saturn.
Many years later the crews are informed the domes are to be jettisoned and destroyed and the freighters brought back into commercial service.
Aboard the Valley Forge, most of the crew are happy to be cutting short a long boring tour of duty. One though, Freeman Lowell an ecologist who has dedicated his life to the project, simply says...
"No"
Environmental disaster has lead to war, famine and the prioritisation of simple survival over progress. It is not a post apocalyptic world, but one in steep post-industrial decline.
Farmer "Coop" (Matthew McConaughey), once an astronaut shortly before NASA wound down operation lives with his family on a dustbowl farm scratching an ever more precarious living.
A series of strange things begin to occur in his daughter Murph's bedroom, with objects being moved around and she begins to take notes. Deciphering a simple code from this they give coordinates to NASA's hidden base of operation. Here Coop finds out that mankind is in far worse straits than he thought but that NASA, what's left of it, has a last ditch plan. Well two plans actually...
Sitting down to dinner with them our writer is spun a rambling tale of love, war, a contested legacy and a stolen old master painting that led to them becoming the proprietor.
It happened on the night of a party in his honour and while everybody has it as suicide, Clover thinks it must be a tragic accident. Distant from her father Aubrey (David Troughton) she tries to make arrangements for the funeral and get on top of what's been going on.
CW: suicide, animal husbandry and killing
Sleazy grifter Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) makes a living selling illegal "clips", recorded experiences where you fully experience events as somebody else which are consumed in a manner similar to recreational drugs. Many of these are pornographic or involve extreme violence, up to and including death. Shying away from "snuff" he mostly deals in tailored pornography but also anything he can do a deal for.
One of his associates Iris contacts him, scared and looking for help and says his ex-girlfriend Faith (Juliette Lewis) who he is still obsessed with is also in danger. Later he is passed an envelope with a clip containing Iris' brutal rape and murder from the point of view of the perpetrator.
Unwilling to go to the Police (he's a criminal disgraced former cop) Lenny enlists the help of his friends Mace (Angela Bassett) a bodyguard / chauffeur and Max (Tom Sizemore) a private investigator to work out what's going on and try to keep Faith safe.
Faith, quite sensibly, wants nothing to do with Lenny.
CW: sexual violence, rape and murder close up
In a panic they flee the scene unsure quite what to do next.
Returning home later she is very unsettled as she sees a number of odd things that make her recall that night in her youth.
Adelaide tells Gabe about how that night she got separated from her parents and met her own exact doppelganger. She persuades Gabe they should leave but just then the lights go out and there's a family of four, just like the Wilsons, outside the house waiting sinisterly.