Is Government-Sanctioned Euthanasia Really That Hard To Imagine?
One unsettling aspect of Chie Hayakawa’s ‘Plan 75’ is the business-as-usual quality of the imagined bureaucracy set up to deal with the citizens willing to end their lives for the greater good.
The most unnerving thing about “Plan 75,” the debut feature from Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, is that the dystopian future it presents doesn’t seem futuristic at all. This is as true for the film’s mise en scène as it is for its premise.
There’s no comfort to be taken, for instance, in city-states that have been reimagined as gleaming high-tech playlands or blighted urban hell-scapes. We are far removed from either “Logan’s Run” or “Soylent Green,” iconic 1970s movies that “Plan 75” brings to mind. What the picture does share with these two schlock masterpieces is summed up in the title: an agenda and time.
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