Alexandra Kleeman
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In this story [minor spoilers ahead] the droughts on America's west coast have lead to the creation of WAT-R, a synthesized version of water with disturbing properties (it doesn't move or act like water or often really like any actual worldly fluid) that is sold back to the populace at constantly inflating prices while the ultra-wealthy hoard real water and profit from their investments in WAT-R. A novelist arrives in LA to find that the screenplay adaptation of his most personal novel has been bastardized into a hackneyed horror story with a washed up starlet attached. From there things get simultaneously deep and disturbing and funny and touching. My main complaint was that it felt like after a really methodical and in-depth build up, it started to race toward the ending, although maybe this was a stylistic choice given the subject matter of worlds accelerating toward a chaotic ending, so I will let it slide.… (lisätietoja)