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‘Infinity Pool’ is Wild
A big, bold vision that mostly worked for me.
James Foster (Alexander Skarsgård) and his wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman) are on vacation until James hits a local man with his car and kills him. The local culture allows for a double to be created, for a price, to accept the punishment on James’ behalf. And everything changes.
Infinity Pool is a very wild movie. It starts out in the same vein as The White Lotus, wealthy people staying at a resort where the local culture is put on display for their amusement. We see how disconnected the wealthy resort patrons are from reality, but that disconnect only grows throughout the film.
The premise of this film is fascinating. When Detective Thresh (Thomas Kretschmann) explains the process to James, he says that their body-doubling program is all part of the tourism initiative. In order to keep the tourism money flowing into the island, they have to create a way for justice to happen on the island when the wealthy eventually commit crimes. (Which we all know they will do.)
This got me thinking about the effects that tourism has on the cities that people travel to. Money from tourism can be helpful to the economy, but sometimes the damage caused by tourists isn’t worth it. I started thinking about Hawaii and hearing in recent years calls from residents urging…
