Mickey 17, the review of the film with Robert Pattinson

After a movie like Parasitethe question was: Bong Joon Ho Will he be able to shake us again? How can another film be able to make the same disruptive force as the one that overturned the world cinema table and brought home the Oscar? Six years after that ruthless story of class struggle in South Korea (but valid everywhere), here ** Mickey 17**, just released in theaters: a science fiction film set in a distant planet which, however, speaks very well of what happens on our land right now, overbearingly of politics and big tech included.

Robert Pattinson interprets Mickey Barnes, a “Expendable”that is, a sacrificable worker employed in a space mission to colonize a frozen planet. Every time he dies, a 3D printer brings him back to life with intact memories. And here comes the central question: we are all guinea pig? Guinea pigs of our politicians, employers, the powerful of the world? Mickey suffers what millions of people live every day: the lack of value, the feeling of being replaceable. Who controls this gigantic car? In the film is Marshall, the commander of the mission, played by an amazing Mark Ruffalo. He is a character who closely remembers certain men of power of Silicon Valley à la Elon Musk: the preacher charisma, the rhetoric of progress, the despotic management.

But this is not Parasitewhere the class struggle could only lead to tragedy. Perhaps Bong has not become optimistic, but this time he grants at least a little hope. In Mickey 17 Human beings still have some chances, because even in a universe where life can be cloned indefinitely, there is still room for rebellion.