The year is 2065. Earth is dying. Somewhere in the blighted midwest, our story begins. A squat trapezoidal car pulls up to a house, not too close, but close enough to wake up the man who’s been sleeping on the couch, Junior (Paul Mescal), who is on the outs with his wife, Henrietta (Saoirse Ronan) – who goes by Hen, for short. A man appears at the door. With a rifle in hand, Junior wants to know who he is and what he wants. Hen says to let him in.The film is Foe, directed by Garth Davis, with a script co-written by Davis and the original novel’s author, Iain Reid (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). It’s a lovely, sensitive, character-driven story with an extravagant setup that more or less mines the same subjects that have been the heart of storytelling since time immemorial. That is until its biggest reveal is that it wants really hard to be a science fiction film that’s taken seriously as such, with a whopping twist and all.The man Hen and Junior let in is Terrance (Aaron Pierre), a representative of Outermore, a company working to make space inhabitable. Terrance is there to shake up Junior and Hen’s world, and he does so without a hint of jocularity, saying that in just a few years, Junior will be taken aboard Outermore’s space station, and Hen will be left behind.RELATED: 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies Adapted From Books
The year is 2065. Earth is dying. Somewhere in the blighted midwest, our story begins. A squat trapezoidal car pulls up to a house, not too close, but close enough to wake up the man who’s been sleeping on the couch, Junior (Paul Mescal), who is on the outs with his wife, Henrietta (Saoirse Ronan) – who goes by Hen, for short. A man appears at the door. With a rifle in hand, Junior wants to know who he is and what he wants. Hen says to let him in.
The film is Foe, directed by Garth Davis, with a script co-written by Davis and the original novel’s author, Iain Reid (I’m Thinking of Ending Things). It’s a lovely, sensitive, character-driven story with an extravagant setup that more or less mines the same subjects that have been the heart of storytelling since time immemorial. That is until its biggest reveal is that it wants really hard to be a science fiction film that’s taken seriously as such, with a whopping twist and all.
The man Hen and Junior let in is Terrance (Aaron Pierre), a representative of Outermore, a company working to make space inhabitable. Terrance is there to shake up Junior and Hen’s world, and he does so without a hint of jocularity, saying that in just a few years, Junior will be taken aboard Outermore’s space station, and Hen will be left behind.
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