Directed by Alexander Payne
by GD Hoffman

Downsizing is a big movie about smallness. It conveys large ideas and opinions regarding humanity in several polarizing areas like class, politics, ecology, technology, commercialism, totalitarianism, democracy, foreign relations, and so on. The story examines how a single change can affect the overlapping sociological fabric of global civilizations. What that change represents does not really matter aside from providing space for a few sight gags and one-liners.