Zygote is exclusively available on Steam.
Have you ever walked into a movie late and wondered what you missed? District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp’s Zygote is almost exactly like that. If Zygote was a part of a full length film, then the short is essentially the last 20 minutes or so. It’s definitely good, but there are a lot of pieces missing.
Zygote is the third short film released through Blomkamp’s Oats Studios, and it is easily the strongest of the trio to date. While Zygote drops into the story at a very late point in time, Blomkamp is able to get viewers up to speed fairly quickly. The short is set at a mining colony in the future, where a team of 98 crewmembers has been whittled down to only two survivors: a synthetic human named Barklay (Dakota Fanning), and her superior officer, Quinn (Jose Pablo Cantillo). Of the two performers, Cantillo has the harder job because he has to drop the bulk of the exposition and convey the backstory via his interactions with Barklay.
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Have you ever walked into a movie late and wondered what you missed? District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp’s Zygote is almost exactly like that. If Zygote was a part of a full length film, then the short is essentially the last 20 minutes or so. It’s definitely good, but there are a lot of pieces missing.
Zygote is the third short film released through Blomkamp’s Oats Studios, and it is easily the strongest of the trio to date. While Zygote drops into the story at a very late point in time, Blomkamp is able to get viewers up to speed fairly quickly. The short is set at a mining colony in the future, where a team of 98 crewmembers has been whittled down to only two survivors: a synthetic human named Barklay (Dakota Fanning), and her superior officer, Quinn (Jose Pablo Cantillo). Of the two performers, Cantillo has the harder job because he has to drop the bulk of the exposition and convey the backstory via his interactions with Barklay.
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