Along the way, he meets a beautiful but troubled young woman, Isla (Mara), who wants to kill herself but is persuaded to help Will get to the bottom of what Harbor’s discovery really is.Ĭombining parts of the mad-scientist movie, the horror film, the romantic drama and the sci-fi indie, The Discovery is initially absorbing. McDowell, who co-wrote the film, introduces us to Will (Segel), Harbor’s estranged son, who visits his father’s remote island fortress to plead with the neuroscientist to give up his continued quest to map the afterlife. Two years later, though, humanity has experienced more than four million suicides, with everyone from celebrities to ordinary people deciding they’d rather dwell in this afterlife. Thomas Harbor (Redford), has proven that there is a world after this one. The Discovery kicks off in a not-so-distant future in which a neuroscientist, Dr. Still, Segel and Rooney are joined by Robert Redford, Riley Keough and Jesse Plemons in the ensemble, so discriminating art-house viewers may get on board.
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Netflix will be streaming The Discovery on March 31, and the movie could find a cult audience - its self-consciously distant approach and twisty narrative are probably too esoteric for mainstream crowds. In his follow-up to The One I Love, filmmaker Charlie McDowell again combines the fantastical and the emotional, using bold concepts to examine age-old questions about regret and alienation.Ĭombining parts of the mad-scientist movie, the horror film, the romantic drama and the sci-fi indie, The Discovery is initially absorbing.Ī fine cast headed by Jason Segel and Rooney Mara operates on the same muted, forlorn wavelength, and while the movie overdoes the plot twists and existential musings, The Discovery is a diverting head-trip whose reach far exceeds its grasp. A killer premise leads to only so-so execution in The Discovery, an ambitious sci-fi drama which imagines what would happen if humanity learned definitively that there was an afterlife.
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