Addie Brice

The Congress is a film you might need to watch twice maybe three times depending on who you are. It's not a bad film it's a great movie. It comes in waves and layers it takes time for a watcher to process the information longer. But the story moves fast and wraps up pretty quickly. It doesn't give you enough time to digest it so it leaves you feeling lost, sad, almost there but not quite finish. Robin Wright plays the main character who is a great actress who suffers from depression and anxiety. Her son Aaron who is almost completely deaf seems to be the only real thing keeping her tethered. In the film, everyone wants to either be her, use her, and or hate her. She reluctantly signs this contract to have her face used digitally for film anytime even after death. Ironically, the fantasy she shows in her movies is tiresome and false to her but at the same time, she finds herself seeking solace in a drugged chemical party uprising that fills the city and forces the unaffected to live high in air balloons. The affected like Robin is in an everlasting state of daydreaming. They are catapulted in a fantastical world were they're consciousness can dream up anything. The animation is most of the story the animated scenes are like drug-induced trippy scenes. It's fun to watch and very entertaining. Finally, Robin can break from her dream animated world and see the horrible truth that everyone caught in the Chemical Party Uprising are standing together in dirty, tattered clothes lost, aging, never really living. They are unaware of how bad the truth is or how long its been. Robin breaks through the sea of zombie daydreamers in search of her son Aaron. She goes up to the air balloon only to be told her son's health was deteriorating and six months ago after waiting for her for 20 years and sure she will never return Aaron took the chemical to experience the other side. He is forever lost in his mind in his false fantastical world. She then mourns her son and decides to take the chemical to be reunited in a world in her conscious mind with Aaron. Robin feels like an anti-depressant pill she feeds to her viewers providing only fantastical lies that lead them to nothing and nowhere at the same time hiding from reality and missing out on her son's life. She is part of a huge problem that promotes excessive use of fantasizing and submerging into virtual worlds never really living but only daydreaming. The film shows the most extreme outcome with the perverse of drug use for mental health, excessive fantasizing, and virtual programming. Issues are not being confronted and dealt with but medicated with drugs and technology the outcome is cold, empty, too quiet, and terrifying. The doctors up in the air balloons seem to have become more docile at their approach to reversing the chemical everlasting effects. Robin's journey to find her son was depressing the land seems so barren because everyone is grouped lost in their minds in one place. I believe after the writers, directors, and actors of this film have long gone people will appreciate the film more. I know I appreciate the message in the movie.