Landscape With Invisible Hand
Director: Cory Finley
Year Released: 2023
Rating: 0.0
Asexual space creatures called the Vuvv - which look like plucked chickens with slug-like tentacles that have paddle mitts they use to "communicate" - have taken over the Earth and forced economic hardships on everyone, so high school student Adam (Asante Blackk) invites homeless classmate Chloe (Kylie Rogers), along with her brother Hunter (Michael Gandolfini) and father (Josh Hamilton), to live in his basement - to try to make money, Adam and Chloe live-stream their "dates" for the extraterrestrials and claim they're "in love," but when it's proven they're "faking it," they get sued. You can tell this came straight out of the Sundance Factory of Precociousness and Whimsy because it tries to be "quirky" but has nothing to say about capitalism, the patriarchy or art itself: Adam's mother Beth (Tiffany Haddish) "marries" a Vuvv, Hamilton's neutered dad dresses in drag and then Adam gets offered a lucrative deal to be an artist for the aliens (but they censor his work). I suppose the main "takeaways" are that even supernatural beings aren't above using propaganda ... and, as a society, are just as litigious as humans. The individuals who made this should be bopped upside the head with a very real hand.