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Beau Knapp in ‘Mosquito State’
A Wall Street data analyst is overpowered by a plague of mosquitoes in Polish director Filip Jan Rymsza’s allegory of 2007 financial crisis.
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Beau Knapp in ‘Mosquito State’
Filip Jan Rymsza’s chilly Mosquito State is a disturbing allegory for the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis.
Unfolding as an obsessive fever dream, it opens with a predatory insect’s eye view of privilege then multiplies into a nightmarish infestation before vengefully claiming its sacrifice.
Making references to Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and to David Cronenberg’s earlier features, the tale is fittingly a creepy psycho-horror.