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Chris McKay attributes the works of Steven Spielberg and James Cameron as major filmmaking influences, and you can see this in his latest film, The Tomorrow War. The Chris Pratt star vehicle is imbued with all the characteristics widely associated with Hollywood blockbusters enormous action sequences, overwhelming visual spectacle, and an emotional family drama binding them all together.
The filmmaker talks about directing The Tomorrow War and the films that moulded his taste, both as a cinephile and a filmmaker.
The Tomorrow War is your first live-action film. How different or similar was it to helm a live-action project as opposed to an animated film?
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A sci-fi action flick featuring aliens, The Tomorrow War exists along with a surfeit of similar films from genre classics such as Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens to contemporary blockbusters like Independence Day and Edge of Tomorrow, with which this film shares more than just the word ‘tomorrow’. The Tomorrow War too has a lip-smacking premise. Soldiers from 2051 land in 2022 to warn people about an alien invasion in the future that’s bound to wipe out the human race.
Governments across the world (read ‘America’) send people into the future for a seven-day window to fight the Sisyphean war that has a 30% survival rate. The stakes are high, and during the first 30 minutes of the film, though we are yet to catch a sight of the menace, there is an enjoyable undercurrent of tension. The first act might have well made for a high-tension human drama set in a world on the verge of insanity. While Dan Forester (Chris Pratt, playing Chris
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Remember when The Trial of Chicago 7, a film chronicling the litigious aftermath of the anti-Vietnam war protests in the US, bore an uncanny resemblance to the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act protests in India? The similarity, which transcended geographical and political differences, was a testament to the theme of resistance and made the Aaron Sorkin-directorial a timely tale of humanity. It’s such timeliness that makes Netflix’s Nail Bomber: Man Hunt, a documentation of the 1999 London bombings, a discomfiting, but relevant experience.
Over three consecutive weekends in the April of 1999, homemade bombs stocked up with nearly 1,500 nails each were planted in public places. It cumulatively killed three and maimed over 140. The perpetrator, the-then 22-year-old David Copeland, identified himself as a Neo-Nazi and conceded that his sordid act was fuelled by his resentment towards minorities. The relevance of the 1999 documentary emanates from the hate crimes
The protagonist’s propensity to perceive sexual prowess, or lack thereof, as the sole defining factor of a relationship is indicative of the film’s murky politics and negates its predictable message.