(The poster version of the high-rise and the film’s actually differ slightly-in the film itself, a band of concrete separates every section of ten or so floors and the lower lobby structure is less pronounced.) Liang stares forward while a figure falls into space, recalling the 9/11 “ Falling Man” photo. The promotional materials highlight both the figure of Laing ( Tom Hiddleston) and the film’s iteration of the forty-story high-rise, a brutalist tiered concrete block-style building, with its upper floors cantilevered out precariously. Ben Wheatley’s 2015 adaptation of JG Ballard’s High-Rise (1975) positions the novel’s titular building and protagonist, Robert Laing, as bound up together, drawing on Ballard’s language and selective aesthetic palette throughout.
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