Alexander Payne ’s Downsizing has had a mixed response — including from us , but the conception itself is pretty solid . It explored the interrogative of whether we ’re doing enough to combat the dissipation triggered by our own world , as a grapheme muses that humanity is head to an experimental extinction - story reboot of the species . But in the original version of the film , this was n’t a hypothetical .
In an interview withCinema Blend , director Alexander Payne revealed that Downsizing had a couple key scenes , including the opening , that he cut due to length . fundamentally , they turned the tale of Paul Safranek ( Matt Damon ) , a man who flinch himself so he can run off fewer resource , into a caption :
There were a few prospect , and a framing twist — that all of this is being secern like a myth from bantam masses 5,000 year in the future . The big extinction did come , wipe everyone out , and then we pick up the story with the bantam people who have repopulated the planet coming out of the vault 5,000 years in the future . And an old fibber is telling children around a campfire . “ Years ago , the world was rule by giants . ” “ Ohhh ! ” “ But the goliath were always hungry , and they angle all the sea , and killed all the animate being , and burn down all the forest , and made the world unbearably hot ! ” “ Ohhh ! ” And then he start up to tell the story of Paul .
This abide by the third enactment of the film , where Paul find a eschaton biosphere hidden underground , where miniaturized people can live on for generation after the planet has died out . allot to Payne , the opening and closing scenes of the film would ’ve confirmed that the major planet did become uninhabitable , and it would ’ve trace the generations who shroud themselves away for thousands of years , heed to story of the Great Paul Safranek . But I ’ve got to be good , if I had to hear stories about Matt Damon my whole life , I believably would ’ve pulled a Fallout 3 and escaped that bunker first opportunity I got .
[ Cinema Blend ]
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