What underpins our "exploration"? human nature? Still inhuman?

Kyra 2022-04-22 07:01:07

The pictures are beautiful, the soundtrack is ok, and the planets in the solar system look very beautiful, but the vision for the future is much worse than "2001 A Space Odyssey", but the director seems to have said that it is not a hard science fiction? The light and shadow colors are also not as good as the last part of "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Speaking of the content, I think some points are useless. The part of repeatedly conducting psychological tests on Roy can be handled a little better, making the whole film more seamless. The topics discussed in the whole film are relatively concentrated. When you find your father later? I haven't gotten to many places in front, and I don't know what to shop.

The last place I feel is throwing questions at us - what are we looking for? Roy is looking for Dad, Dad is looking for alien civilizations. What keeps us going? What supports Roy is emotion, and what supports Dad is reason and faith. It also reminds me of Cheng Xin and Zhang Beihai in "The Three-Body Problem", which represent human nature and inhumanity respectively (no human nature is not a derogatory meaning, but I don't want to use the word rationality. I always feel that rationality is also a part of human nature, even if ordinary people cannot I understand the feeling of paranoia), and it’s hard to say who is good and who is not. According to the director’s opinion, it should be human nature, human feelings, and finally Roy’s psychological test and the interpretation of his ex-wife (or his wife), should have stated this.

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Ad Astra quotes

  • Roy McBride: Why go on? Why keep trying?

  • Roy McBride: Goddamn it, they are using me!