The environment remains a hot topic, which of course also makes its way into movies. As the world gets more crowded, temperatures rise and we still do too little to change it all you might wonder how we could solve it. In Downsizing a brilliant solution has been invented: To make people smaller (roughly the size of a finger). That way a community of small people will create only one bag of trash in four years, which would take an average family only two weeks. Small people use less energy, don’t need as much food and it seems to be the perfect way to do something about the environment issues. Director Alexander Payne (Nebraska, The Descendants, Sideways) tries to turn that idea into an interesting movie, but unfortunately doesn’t completely succeed. Continue reading →