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A doctor dines on a dog. A supermarket becomes a trash-filled wasteland. And a posh penthouse is turned into a hot spot for costumed orgies and the occasional horse. These are the indelible images presented in Ben Wheatley\u2019s superb adaptation of High-Rise<\/em>, the 1975 J.G. Ballard novel that foreshadowed Margaret Thatcher\u2019s England in spirit, if not in canine-cuisine reality. Wheatley\u2019s film starts at the bottom of the titular structure and builds upward, chronicling the social upheaval as the lower- and middle-class residents of a retro-futuristic condo clash with its upper-tier titans of industry. Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Elisabeth Moss round out the characters caught on all sides of the mess, each expertly embodying the paranoia and chaos of a revolution. Like Wheatley\u2019s 2011 film Kill List<\/em>, High-Rise<\/em> switches genres effortlessly \u2013 black humour one moment, dystopic parable the next \u2013 until it becomes its own singular, horrifying, immensely captivating thing.<\/p>\n

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