"Nothing ever lived here" - seriously? How about all the evidence to the contrary?
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Actually from the criticisms I've read of this film I actually like the premise. I haven't seen the film. But I am pretty sure based on reviews and spoilers that the astronaut doesn't find anything interesting or cool on Mars and there is no reveal of any kind in the end.
Seems the film is about the individual astronaut and his psychological and philosophical struggle for meaning. For one he endures all that alone time and probably becomes depressed or crazy. Earth stops being relevant to him. Mars still symbolizes a purpose and he clinches to it.
I suspect what happens in the end is he sees that he didn't find anything good or worthwhile on Mars , no hidden alien oxygen generators, or evidence of aliens, and then he is either still happy that he reached it and saw an anticlimactic scene, or (which I think is less likely) he flips out and decides that his whole life was for nothing and he wasted his years flying to Mars, has no way back, and has to cope with perceived lack of purpose to live.
Please, if anyone has seen the film, tell me what I guessed correctly , if anything.
Someone wrote that they expected something like Interstellar, Gravity, or 2001 space odyssey. Each of those films is more direct and is about making the humanist egos of the viewers feel better. Humanity as a whole achieves something. The characters don't all die. Those films aren't fatalistic or nihilistic.
If this film "Into the unknown" is anti climactic, is it because it shows pessimism, disappointment, and musings on the purpose of life, then I don't think it is bad at all. There are already many movies which espouse human progress, future, show technological and social advances , even despite earth going to crap. Point is you see humanity persevere somehow. That is a tired and cliche concept designed to make the viewer feel good.
There need to be some movies that show a different perspective and a reality check. That maybe there is nothing "out there", maybe we dwell on too much wishful thinking and we are too overconfident about space exploration while still neglecting the search for a purpose of existence which is done through philosophy and not through exploration or science?
This film's trailer reminds me of movies like Silent Running in which there was also a conflict of interest between the people who run the ship from earth and the one person tending to gardens on the ship. Another film is titled Moon and is also about the importance of transcendent human values as opposed to some vague progress of humanity.
You should probably see the movie as what you got "right" is only what you see at face value which is this:
Seems the film is about the individual astronaut and his psychological and philosophical struggle for meaning. For one he endures all that alone time and probably becomes depressed or crazy. Earth stops being relevant to him. Mars still symbolizes a purpose and he clinches to it.
If you want to see the movie don't read the next bit.
It's not a sci-fi movie, he's not an astronaut (which becomes pretty apparent after a while with a lot of weird inaccuracies) and he never leaves earth. The space journey is just a parable to him dying in the desert. Although he struggles for meaning and he feels alienated from life in general, that has little to do with space travel other than wanting or wishing for a moment of wonder.
As such I must contend that this movie is much better than given credit for (there are no technical inaccuracies in it that aren't meant to be in it), but still not great. It's just that everyone expects a sci-fi and this is far from that.
Partly agree with you, and I respect fantasy and artistic freedom but "a different perspective and a reality check" movie doesn't send the first probe to Mars carrying one human, who happened to be omnipotent, which travels trough nebulas.
There is not one iota of hard evidence that there was ever any life on Mars
shareno hard evidence- yeah, but there is this: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2986
i think a guy traveling to mars wouldnt say: nothing ever lived here.
I think most may think of life as species similar to us, or other animals on our planet, or maybe even our fantasy view of aliens, but life, as it was once on earth can be really small, and the statement made by the actor would've possibly been looking at it from the pov that nothing has lived and died, as in sentient lifeforms, more similar to the creatures on earth that live and die.
It was a bold statement to make.
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