Help... I’m a tiny person trapped in a hippy fantasy!

WHAT could have been a really clever, witty and intelligent film, Downsizing is completely spoiled by the obsession with global warming and the supposed doom of the planet.

The plot, based on the idea that scientists find a way of shrinking humans, zeroes in on the interesting possibility that if you are five inches tall, but your savings stay the same size as they were, you can suddenly afford a much more comfortable, luxurious life.

But it also explores the blood-freezing thought that cynical despots could take revenge on their opponents by miniaturising them and turning them into a tiny underclass, skivvying for super-rich American Tom Thumbs.

The scene is set for a fascinating drama. But no, suddenly it all gets mixed up with the melting icecaps, and wanders off into a sort of hippy fantasy which I, for one, could not understand.

I don’t know how the makers would have got away with this if Warmism wasn’t the religion of the modern media classes.