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BODY COUNT ‘The Becomers’ is lo-fi sci-fi with a high IQ BY MICHAEL J. CASEY
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Molly Plunk and Mike Lopez in The Becomers. Courtesy: Yellow Veil Pictures
ing a delightfully fluid take on romance. heir world crumbled, and that’s The Becomers is a low-budget sci-fi why they came to ours. endeavor, and Clark relies on a narraThey came from far away and tive that opens with intrigue and builds are doing their best to assimilate — to on cleverness to keep the audience our ways, our beliefs, our culture, even engaged. You don’t learn our appearance. It’s all everything you need right pretty baffling to them, but up front, and you don’t they’re trying, and they pick Interested in need to. Clark gives you it up quickly. After a couple more from just enough to ground you of days, you can’t really tell the Dairy Arts but plenty more to interest them from anyone else. Center’s you. Sure, their movements are Friday Night A large part of that is a little strange, and their Weird series? through the voiceover narspeech is a little halting, but Zap the QR ration, read by Russell Mael who can’t you say that code for the of the band Sparks. At first, about? In time, they will rest of this these aural diversions don’t walk, talk, consume and month’s seem to be anchored in any procreate just like the rest upcoming particular time and place of us. It’s the American films. and don’t inform or illustrate dream. what we are seeing as the If that sounds like a modtwo lovers (played by Isabel ern-day allegory, reader, Alamin, Molly Plunk, Keith you are on the right track. Kelly, Mike Lopez and The Becomers, written and Jacquelyn Haas) move directed by Zach Clark, is through the world in the an immigration story of two present. Then, the narration alien lovers who travel and the narrative converge, and Clark across the cosmos and land in COVIDshows just how much can be achieved era America with the sole mission of with so little. finding each other again. Budgets be damned. The Becomers To blend in, they inhabit the bodies of is a clever piece of work with a clear unsuspecting victims — glowing blue point of view and the right avenue to and purple eye sockets are their only express it. And that is something all the giveaways. But some bodies hold the money in the world cannot buy. lovers better than others, and they must switch every now and then. They do this by taking over a new body and then dissolving the previous vessel by vomiting ON SCREEN: The up some rather powerful acid. It’s pretty Becomers. 8:30 p.m. Friday, gross. As for the bodies they take: Sept. 20, Dairy Arts Center, Gender, age, race and class mean noth2590 Walnut St., Boulder. ing to them. That gives the body snatchBOULDER WEEKLY
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