![]() But, after all, beyond the current day petty spats, as the documentary says “there are many sides to Kanye that people don’t know about”. His simple colour washes differentiating between the sickly yellow superimpositions of Angela’s imagination and her self imposed isolation versus the cold, washed out hues of the offices of her employers and oppressors.Īmid public feuds with anyone associated with Pete Davidson, tirades against Billie Eilish, and his recent split from Julia Fox, it’s probably not the ideal time to release the first part of the much anticipated Kanye documentary jeen-yuhs. Soderbergh’s naturally lit, digital photography perfectly captures both the isolation of Angela’s flat as well as her online performance as a person, not to mention how he later engages with the eerie and inhuman sterility of the office space. Her friend with benefits kept at arms length by her frustration with him being frustrated by her lifestyle. Angela’s (frequently justified) fear of the outdoors makes her short with the few people she remains in contact with. Through Angela, Soderbergh both tackles how the pandemic has reshuffled the borders of socialisation, digital space, personal space and work, unspooling these feelings of alongside musings on the modern day surveillance state and how tech companies treat private data as financial asset. Read more: Everything new on Sky in February ![]() Met by resistance from her company, Angela is forced to confront her fear of the outdoors, and venture into the city where malevolent corporate forces watch her every move. Set in Seattle during the COVID-19 pandemic, the agoraphobic tech worker Angela (Zoe Kravitz) discovers evidence of a violent crime while reviewing a data stream for a ‘Siri’-like system called ‘Kimi’. ![]() Like Steven Soderbergh’s other post-’retirement’ films, Kimi leverages pulpy genre thrills as a route into a specific sickness of contemporary America, such as the healthcare system in Unsane, exploitation of labour in sports in High Flying Bird, or rust belt class anxiety in Logan Lucky. ![]() Zoe Kravitz as Angela Childs in Kimi (Sky Cinema/Warner Bros.) ![]()
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