"Tow" Tells the True Story of a Woman Who Sued the System
Not only does the system prevent upward mobility, but it makes it incredibly easy to slide from comfortably middle class to unhoused.

Tomomi runs a cleaning company and develops an actress' dream. Rarely comes the opportunity to become an actress, and she feels skeptical as she faces a cold reality. Top actress Getaro reaches out to her secretly. However, Getaro was a murderer who murdered my youngest daughter, Rina, and overturned the murder charges on his wife, Marie. What is the fate of Tomomi left alone with Getaro?
Not only does the system prevent upward mobility, but it makes it incredibly easy to slide from comfortably middle class to unhoused.
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These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.