When I wanted to express the deep or vast reverie in my heart after watching the movie, I always felt that there was a little less atmosphere, so I simply turned on the dark mode of the mobile phone and put on the headphones to cycle the movie. The original soundtrack "Event Horizon" in the movie, of course, this is why the movie can make you concentrate, the kind of atmosphere created by the audio-visual of the movie seems to surround you.
The title Ad Astra comes from a Latin proverb. The literal translation of the original sentence Per aspera ad astra is from dirt to stars. The perseverance on the bumpy road expressed by the proverb may also be the trait of the male protagonist's father. If you compare it with the interstellar-related movies I have seen before, this movie does not have a very rigorous knowledge of physical theory as a basis (or almost does not focus on theoretical knowledge and technical support for people to think about), and also There is no big action scene with full of tension and gorgeous special effects in the cool film. On the contrary, the first feeling of the whole film for me is stillness. The inner dialogue of the male protagonist in the whole film can make the audience have a better sense of substitution.
Next, let’s talk about the reverie that the movie may want to express or some of my own thoughts.
Whenever I look up at the stars and face the universe, I feel very, very small and lonely. Watching this movie is very emotional. The conversation of several characters in the movie also highlights this atmosphere. The corridor where the male protagonist on Mars is doing his work is very long, and the projections that surround the room are also magnifying the scene, making the characters change. to be small. I was thinking before that the male protagonist Destroyed Team alone to occupy the bridge section of the rocket. Can we go together in the form of a small team? The answer is no, it is more suitable for such a person to find a person's loneliness in the vast black sky.
I really like the role of the male lead's father. He's been on the lookout for extraterrestrial life, even when described as a murderer by others. If everyone is alone in the universe, why not the entire life on earth? We are desperately looking for answers from other ideologies, perhaps the loneliness of the entire planet in the universe. The father of the male protagonist in the movie said this sentence: "A good captain will live and die with his ship", but does it really happen? I don't think he will. He chose to become a space junk-style suicide more because he is still exploring. He may be about to float out of the solar system. Even if the data tells him that there is no extraterrestrial life, the answer in his heart has always been Yes on the poster!
Many people may ask, if exploring the unknown is our escape from loneliness, but the journey of the male protagonist and the male protagonist's father is generally lonely. I think this part of the movie is more about a blood-like bond. Well, the black woman on Mars said that she has only been to Earth once, and has been on Mars from birth to growth, but her bloodline is always from Earth. There are also pictures of the male protagonist pulling the rope in the underground lake on Mars to symbolize the amniotic umbilical cord, and the action of sucking the nutrients in the spaceship is similar to breastfeeding. Maybe primates are too far-fetched... The male protagonist's father's thoughts on "family" And the love of the male protagonist for his father, this kind of bond is worth thinking about. It can't be said that the male protagonist's father's approach is wrong.
Seriously, when watching the male protagonist's father from a distance slowly fly away to become part of space (or continue his exploration journey), it seems that he can float away like this...
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