‘Solos’ review: Portraits of solitude, memory and remembrance
The Hindu
Starring A-listers like Anne Hathaway, Helen Mirren and Morgan Freeman, the Amazon anthology takes us through seven characters telling their personal stories
How strange and wonderful life is! As communication systems got more sophisticated, people moved further apart from each other, till you could have a bunch of human beings in a room each buried in their communication devices. Then came a virus, which necessitated isolation. One would have thought this was the perfect disease for the age as humans had decided to forgo contact for machines, ones and zeroes. However, we are perverse if not anything else and just when we have been told to stay in and be alone, we yearn for connections. Set in a cold, sterile, clinical future, Amazon’s anthology, Solos, features seven people telling their stories. The first one, ‘Leah’, (Anne Hathaway), tells of a brilliant physicist who is working to crack time travel. She is fighting the boys club of time travel— “They have Terminator, Back to the Future, and the only female-led time travel movie is a 2004 romantic comedy, 13 going on 30!” she huffs. There is a personal reason for Leah to travel through time as well.More Related News