Downsizing is a 2017 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by Payne and Jim Taylor, and starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, and Kristen Wiig.

Is Downsizing a satire?

We literally have one monitor with two keyboards.” Downsizing, their most imaginative concoction yet, seems at first to be a straight-up satire about social inequality that riffs on a simple and literal-minded premise: What if, in agreeing to become a microsize version of yourself (via a process of “cellular reduction” ...

What was the point of Downsizing?

Downsizing posits a future in which humans can choose to shrink themselves to approximately 5in in height. It's sold as the ultimate in environmental altruism. But the main reason? “Smalls” get to live in luxury and privilege in well-appointed gated (and insect-netted) miniature communities.