IT’S What’s Inside is a twisted comedy with an existential twist that will appeal to fans of films such as Possessor and Bodies Bodies Bodies.
The story focuses around a brattish group of old college chums who gather for a night of debauchery as part of a pre-wedding reunion when a surprise guest arrives with a mysterious suitcase and thoughts of settling old scores.
On the eve of Reuben’s wedding, his friends gather in a stately manner that is as luxurious as it is remote. The old gang are promised a night to remember with new experiences and high jinks aplenty.
When college castoff and entrepreneur Forbes turns up with a radical experimental machine which allows its users to swap bodies with each other things take a wild and warped turn before the night is through.
Forbes suggests they use the body-swap machine to play a game where the group all try and figure out who is hiding in whose body. What starts out as the mindless frivolity of spoilt social media dimwits proves a terrible idea with dire consequences for those unable to turn it to their advantage.
Now streaming on Netflix, director Greg Jardin‘s film is a sci-fi permeated psychological drama for the Gen Z generation.
It’s What’s Inside proves to be a devilishly entertaining and fast-paced thriller that is hugely amusing despite not having too many original ideas of its own.
If you are looking to start a provocative conversation around empathy and compassion, Jardin’s stylised Black Mirror-esque ride is a good a place as any to jump off from. The cast play their different parts with great panache and it’s hard not to get caught up in all the visual deception that is thrown at us with such lustrous and stimulating verve.
(4/5)
