Saturday, September 30, 2017

Review - The Changeover (Movie, New Zealand)

At last! The NZ Film Commission gives us a movie in my favourite genre, Political Allegory! The Commish here calls upon its supernatural powers to tell the story of the recent election and look 2 weeks into the future to predict the final result.

The main character is Jacinda (Erana James), who begins as an innocent young woman with little awareness of her special powers. Jacinda needs to look after Bill (Benji Purchase) which becomes very challenging when Winston (Timothy Spall) appears. Winston is a supernatural creature who has lived to a great political age by forming coalitions and feeding on them. Jacinda, attracted to James Shore (Nicholas Galitzine), turns to the Greens (Lucy Lawless, Kate Harcourt) for help. Jacinda finds them using tarot cards to write policy but they kindly take time out from that to put Jacinda in touch with her supernatural feelings so she is ready to face Winston. In the meantime Jacinda and Bill's mother Helen Clark (Melanie Lynskey) is trying to be a normal person. She is too busy working late at night cleaning the United Nations building to take much interest in coalition negotiations but they have a way of pulling everyone in including Helen.

In a remarkable first for NZ Cinema, this movie time-travels 2 weeks into the future as I write. What will be the fate of Jacinda, Winston, Bill and James? What will happen with The Changeover of the New Zealand Government? See this movie to find out!

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