After checking the trailer for this feature I was kinda intrigued. I expected some big depressing narrative with random sex scenes sprinkled for good measure (which I got) and a mature sci-fi focused on hero thrown into space (which was way off). At the end however the positives outnumbered the negatives, and I can say the movie does in fact offer very interesting perspectives into themes like determinism and group thinking.
This is definitely not an emotional film. Cero focus on our protagonist motivations, any traditional character arcs, or building any kind of personal connection with what we are seeing. However is a fascinating study of the psychology of trauma at large:, how those stuck in this spaceship try to cope with the horror of being imprisoned in an eternal trip into nothingness. I think the movie does a fantastic job at keeping up things real in that regard.
The movie looked good, the editing was nice, the soundtrack was ok to boring, and I thought it was very refreshing to finally have a movie without any kind of explanatory moments where all the characters detail their motivations plans and fears to the void for no reason. The time jumping functioned really well and the movie managed to move forward with very little to no action. I never felt like the movie dragged, except for that scene...
Yes, the orgy scene is gratuitous. Of course religious sex rituals exist in real life when traumatized people try to get connection and meaning, but the oysho moment comes out of nowhere, as others have said. If we're going to take the 'it just happened' approach, at least make obvious the motivations behind it for our characters. Do they want more sex to numb themselves? to get a spiritual experience? intimacy? no idea.
It also bugged me that no one cared about the logistics of algae surviving, oxygen purifying, infinite water and alcohol generating boat with zero communication systems. Is not the focus of the movie, of course, but reducing everything to 'it's the future' to go straight into the social engineering was very weird. Apart from that, the whole MIMA-AI consciousness plot was very interesting.I was not expecting the 'suicide', the cult-following or the attempts to replicate it, and I left the movie thinking a lot about it.
This doesn't get 8 stars though because of the ending. Wasn't expecting any kind of epic twist or anything, but lazy is the best adjective I could find for it .Overall this didn't stop me from enjoying the film, but it made it feel amateur when it was obvious there was decent production behind it and a strong concept.
This is definitely not an emotional film. Cero focus on our protagonist motivations, any traditional character arcs, or building any kind of personal connection with what we are seeing. However is a fascinating study of the psychology of trauma at large:, how those stuck in this spaceship try to cope with the horror of being imprisoned in an eternal trip into nothingness. I think the movie does a fantastic job at keeping up things real in that regard.
The movie looked good, the editing was nice, the soundtrack was ok to boring, and I thought it was very refreshing to finally have a movie without any kind of explanatory moments where all the characters detail their motivations plans and fears to the void for no reason. The time jumping functioned really well and the movie managed to move forward with very little to no action. I never felt like the movie dragged, except for that scene...
Yes, the orgy scene is gratuitous. Of course religious sex rituals exist in real life when traumatized people try to get connection and meaning, but the oysho moment comes out of nowhere, as others have said. If we're going to take the 'it just happened' approach, at least make obvious the motivations behind it for our characters. Do they want more sex to numb themselves? to get a spiritual experience? intimacy? no idea.
It also bugged me that no one cared about the logistics of algae surviving, oxygen purifying, infinite water and alcohol generating boat with zero communication systems. Is not the focus of the movie, of course, but reducing everything to 'it's the future' to go straight into the social engineering was very weird. Apart from that, the whole MIMA-AI consciousness plot was very interesting.I was not expecting the 'suicide', the cult-following or the attempts to replicate it, and I left the movie thinking a lot about it.
This doesn't get 8 stars though because of the ending. Wasn't expecting any kind of epic twist or anything, but lazy is the best adjective I could find for it .Overall this didn't stop me from enjoying the film, but it made it feel amateur when it was obvious there was decent production behind it and a strong concept.