Downsizing Downsizing

Alexander Payne / USA / 2017 / 135 min / English

An insightful social satire from Alexander Payne offering a humorous response to overpopulation: instead of reducing our consumption, we could simply opt to downsize ourselves... Opening film at the 2017 Venice Film Festival.

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In search of a cure for the impact of overpopulation on the environment, a group of Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink people to just under five inches tall. The invention is quickly popularised when people realise just how far their money stretches in the context of this Lilliputian world. The promise of a better life lures Paul Safranek and his wife Audrey to downsize, leaving their dull life in Omaha in favour of a luxurious miniature community. But for this couple, things do not go precisely to plan…

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