- Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Several argue that The Tower more closely resembles Socialism than Capitalism; as the Architect's vision flies in the face of what any self-respecting Capitalist would do. There's apparently only one supermarket; Royal's cronies only acknowledge competition after things go to shit; the explicit mention of all floors having the same price, as well as not looking worse than each other; the lack of any law enforcement to protect private property, etc. Throw in buzzwords like "idealism" and "change"; one of Royal's crooked cronies saying he "works for the building, not [him]"; the closest thing to a leftist is depicted as a barbaric, egomaniacal, rapist brute; the overt connection of the Tower's failure to "human nature" (whereas Capitalism thrives on it); the Architect's declaration of his failure being putting too much in one basket (a central critique of Socialism); and Jeremy Irons in a central role note ; and the film seems more and more like a Starship Troopers-style parody of its source material.
- Just Here for Godzilla: While the movie went relatively under the radar when it came out, you can bet many viewers went for Tom Hiddleston and to a lesser extent, Jeremy Irons.
- Moral Event Horizon:
- Wilder crosses it when he rapes and beats Charlotte.
- An In-Universe example, Laing considers himself to have crossed it after Munroe commits suicide due to Laing having lied to him about the results of a brain-scan.
- By the end of the movie, pretty much everyone has pole-vaulted straight over it.
- Narm:
- A fair bit of the dialogue has shades of this, especially the bits that were lifted straight from the book. The problem is that in the book, they were Laing's internal observations and they just don't translate that well when you have people actually speaking the very flowery language out loud.
- The scene of Wilder repeatedly stating his name and descending into unintelligible growling can seem like this.
- Squick:
- This is pretty much Squick: The Movie. Close ups of head dissections, eating pets, graphic violence and lots of blood.
- The book is worse in graphic descriptions of how filthy the high rise itself gets.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/HighRise
FollowingYMMV / High-Rise
Go To
