I unexpectedly liked the movie, although at first I thought I was going to visit Proxima Centauri, the companion star of Alpha Centauri... Actually, the name of the mission to explore Mars was "Proxima Centauri", and the logo can be seen on the heroine's spacesuit.
The first thing to popularize is that at present, only Chinese astronauts use their own spacecraft to perform missions in their own country. Other countries (including the United States) use other countries’ spacecraft to go to the sky, so we can see in this film Astronauts from the United States, France, and Denmark were trained in Russia, and took off on the Russian Soyuz at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan (formerly owned by the Soviet Union), and transited through the International Space Station (ISS) before going on a mission to Mars. The International Space Station is composed of 15+ member states, which also means that in most cases it is a joint mission, and the sense of belonging of each astronaut is destined to be weak. Therefore, it is not a film that focuses on the main theme and talks about national honor.
The atmosphere of this film is very quiet, just like the character of the heroine. In terms of career, she is calm and rational, but abandoning her still young daughter to carry out the one-year activities is obviously not an easy decision. There are still some unfulfilled agreements between her and her daughter, and she is also teaching in the process of preparing to leave. How the daughter accepts this reality without leaving any regrets. Many details, as the director said, are her experiences with her daughter. For people who have never been a mother, the small details in the film are hard to imagine. So it is very plain and touching.
It was included in the women's section of this Beijing International Film Festival, so the audience can get in advance that it must be talking about the status of women (according to the curator). The first time this meant it was when the hostess stayed at the Star City Hotel in Russia. There should be a picture of Tereshkova on the third-floor corridor (I didn't look at it when I was talking with a friend at the time)? This is the first female astronaut in the world, and there is a crater named after her on the back of the moon (she only entered space, but did not land on the moon. There is currently no female landing on the moon). Finally, seeing so many women have performed space missions, many people must be surprised, especially the film fully reflects the ties of women in the family status, the family constraints of men are incomparable, but After they have settled in their families, none of them are weak. At the end of the film, you can see the real female astronauts who have performed the mission again after 10 years. In short, I love it in every way. It is calm but full of power.
Finally, I mentioned my male god Sakamoto Ryuichi. Although I like his past works very much, they are more or less foreign to the shareholders, but this work blends well with the image, and it does not use the experimental music that he loves to try in recent years. Most of his music appears in the time when the hostess communicates with her children and family. It's like saying that she is so rational at work that she doesn't have any turmoil in her heart, but when facing the only pillar (I said earlier, this is not a main theme film, that kind of national belonging is very weak) family, her heart is actually very surging. This is probably the two states of a person when facing work and life.
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