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Can I Get a Witness? tells the story of a mother and daughter in a near-future world where huge sacrifices are made to maintain life on Earth. With its resources swallowed by e-waste and overpopulation, the world is experiencing an anthropogenic collapse. To manage, technological advances are shunned. Nobody has electricity and only people with exceptions are permitted cars. Most importantly, there is also a collective agreement that nobody is allowed to live beyond the age of 50. Oh’s Ellie lives with her teenage daughter Kiah (Keira Jang), who is starting her first day as a Documenter, an important role in this new world order. She uses her artistic gifts — beautifully conjured in animations — to draw the dying ceremonies, since printing and photography have been banned. Kiah is paired with Daniel (Joel Oulette), the young man who performs the contractual elements of each person’s end-of-life ceremony. He matter-of-factly provides the packages a person can choose, sets them up when the time comes, and performs the burials. But his new coworker is having a hard time handling the emotional impacts of the job.
观众心声
#TIFF2024#2.5.反乌托邦叙事发展到现在很难再有什么新的挖掘，电影结合动画的形式也不能算耳目一新，不过Fleming的审美在线所以形式上没大问题。预设一个极端环境主义，以相对温吞的方式慢慢展现世界观，然而和前作相比剧本对话没了灵气，更多是冗长与循环。同事提到似乎是想有一些Donna Haraway却执行失败，Joel Oulette的亮眼外形也没有带来什么深刻的表演。最终只有limited screentime的Sandra Oh成为本片唯一值得关注的一点，毕竟表演上就赢太多。
概念大于剧情，情绪多于逻辑。倒是亲情展现的不错。
16岁就开始工作了，和工作搭子相处就像谈恋爱，看上去这么美好，却只能活到50岁。和明艳的毛地黄一样，虽然好看浑身是毒，华语谎言，达成共识也是自我牺牲的谎言。
试图通过近未来软科幻版入殓师来探讨生命与离别，但问题在于50岁就必须走这个设定完全没有足够的配套铺垫，其实像人类族群对灭世变故的被动接受以及非常环境下心态的扭曲和变化等等，这些才是科幻里的幻该去探讨的，然而成片所做的就是用了一个基本停留在拍脑门水平的概念通过几个看似典型有代表性的个例迎来意料之中的吴珊卓煽情时刻，结果当然是失效的
景色是真不错