![]() ![]() ![]() The lack of privacy and always exposing their true feelings to each other has also brought the colony to shambled ruins twenty years later. And in much the same way, their thoughts poison the environment around them and endangered their survival. This affliction, called Noise, turns men's thoughts into aurally visible puffs of translucent smoke with a mesmerizing, luminescent glow that hovers in the air, resembling crude oil floating in water. Such is the unfortunate case for Doug Liman's Chaos Walking, an adaptation of Patrick Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go, which follows early settlers of an Earth-like planet challenged by a condition that afflicts only the male species of the planet's inhabitants. It's always disappointing when an otherwise good, respectable filmmaker mangles a terrifically intriguing premise and manages only to deliver yet another tediously trite YA adaptation. ![]()
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