Advantageous (2015)

Advantageous: Directed by Jennifer Phang. With Jacqueline Kim, James Urbaniak, Freya Adams, Ken Jeong. In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter Jules do all they can to hold on to their joy together, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

“It starts out as some parallel future where medical advances allow for certain procedures to be done. And marketing. Single moms exist in the future still and so does aging. Real life problems, drama ensues. Of very vanilla variety plus the sprinkles of sci-fi nefarious experimentalism. It just kind of rolled along, unfolding, doing the thing stories do.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt wasnu0026#39;t until the very last scene that tied it all together for me and then it hit me like a ton of bricks that the whole movie was an elaborate setup of this clincher. And itu0026#39;s not what you think. I burst out in tears as the credits began to roll as I wondered at the brilliance I just witnessed. It was so unexpected. Anyway, Iu0026#39;m probably blowing it out of proportion, but I recommend watching this.”