The Assessment 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p

The world has been destroyed by global warming. Society and birth rates are strictly controlled. A female auditor has one week to determine whether a young and successful couple can have a child.

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The fantastic psychological thriller ‘The Assessment’ (2024) invited viewers to ponder a rather pressing question: who deserves the right to be a parent and raise their own child?

Viewers find themselves in a future world where humanity has experienced serious problems with the environment, overpopulation, and food shortages. Society has become caste-based and created a new world, leaving the old world behind. In this new, technologically advanced world, there are very few people. Meanwhile, in the old world, those who have been abandoned are struggling to survive.

The main characters are a married couple who have decided to undergo a 7-day assessment procedure in order to obtain the right to have a child. The husband and wife are played by Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel. They are visited by an assessor, brilliantly played by Alicia Vikander. At first, this stern assessor seems almost robotic. She immediately establishes her authority in the house and even insists on her right to observe the characters' intimate life. But the very next day, she transforms and begins to behave like a capricious little child. The couple quickly understand the rules and begin to play along with the evaluator, who personifies their future child and possible conflicts.

The characters face jealousy towards each other because of the “child's” affections, as well as difficult and exhausting tasks, scattered belongings, and food. They almost cause their ward to drown and are forced to choose between the child, work, and other family members. They learn unpleasant truths about each other and themselves. In short, when the seventh day finally arrives and the characters finally learn the verdict, they will be overwhelmed with doubts about whether they are capable of being a couple and normal parents for the child.

The rating for “The Grading” is quite modest - 6.9 on Kinopoisk and 6.8 on IMDB. The scores are fair. Overall, the film could well have been part of a series such as “Black Mirror” or “Extrapolations” rather than a standalone work.

Moreover, it cannot be said that the creators of ‘The Marked Ones’ really delved deeply into the themes of parental responsibility for the lives of their children, the ability to objectively assess oneself in the role of a father or mother, or the inevitability of cruel and unforgivable mistakes in parent-child relationships.

Instead of digging into profound questions, the creators decided to switch to a story about humanity in the future as a whole. They proposed a concept of a future world where both post-apocalyptic scenarios came true simultaneously: one world became a strict technological totalitarianism, while the other became a wild, degraded desert. The creators of The Assessment do not predict happiness for anyone—neither the inhabitants of the new world, nor the inhabitants of the old world, nor those who settled somewhere in between.

So The Assessment is a rather pessimistic dystopian film that does not carry any revelations or catharsis. But it is more than worth watching. Even if you are not a fan of the genre and you get bored while watching it, this film will definitely stay in your mind for a long time. In addition, it features a rather interesting visual design based on the work of Piet Mondrian.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (58.8 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: HDR10
Aspect ratio: 2.00:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.00:1

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#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

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