Downsizing
*ing: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig Rated: 5.5/10 A revolutionary idea at best — downsizing humans to about 5 inches tall with a promise of prosperity both personal and environmental is a striking premise for an emotional scientific drama and Matt Damon’s Downsizing scores well on that count. But like all of Hollywood’s adventurous science-oriented ventures, this one too bloats on the hocus pocus of a dying humanity and its planet, poverty, disease, globalised oppression of the poor, some lab wonders and a lot of drama around the very concept of downsizing to make it look real, contentious and debatable all at the same time. Damon (Paul), an occupational therapist with a middle class life and wife dealing with bills and mortgages on one side and dreams of a big-life-big-house vertical journey on the other, is slowly but surely drawn by the concept of downsizing and eventually persuades his rather sceptical but loving wife to join the communit...