“Cloud”: a grim fable about the barbarity of capitalism in the digital age

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With its story of an auction site that awakens the dormant predator in each of its users, "Cloud" is in line with the usual preoccupations of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a worried chronicler of the dereliction of the modern world. It is rather the tone of this fable that sets it apart from the filmmaker's great fantasy thrillers (the unsurpassed "Kairo"), or at least the grotesque slope towards which his story is oriented, a game of massacre initiated by the speculative madness of a young start-up boss with a big appetite. By giving body and affect to the low maneuvers orchestrated from his PC by this Doctor Frankenstein 2.0, the film brings out the barbarity of capitalism in the digital age through a small theater of the absurd, grating, a tad repetitive, but at the very least effective in its demonstration.