![]() ![]() Only good will and superhuman patience prevents human society going up like a powder keg. No gender truly benefits from the strange, telepathic gifts bestowed on half the human settlers of New World. Read more: Klara and the Sun review: Ishiguro’s thought-provoking future for AI Even Prentisstown’s misogynist preacher Aaron (surely David Oyelowo’s least rewarding role yet) turns out to make a certain amount of dreadful sense. Indeed, the great strength of Chaos Walking is that it interrogates gender roles by creating genuine difficulties for its characters. His bid to “be a man” in such circumstances is anything but straightforward, but Holland keeps our sympathy and our regard. Todd is the model of what a man must be in this New World: polite, honest and circumspect. Holland’s Todd is a naif, who must save Viola and get her to a neighbouring settlement that he never even realised existed – a place where women survive and (because of the men’s psychic disadvantages) are the sole rulers. She is the only person here who can lie and keep secrets, crucial points made almost entirely in dialogue-free reaction shots. In this film, men quite literally cannot shut up, and in her very first conversation with Mayor Prentiss, it dawns on Viola that this gives her huge advantages. ![]()
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