this movie is not about space and science, it's about our minds, loneliness, meaning of life, search for the moment of pure wonder.. the whole 'mission to mars' plot is just a base for the real story
shareI agree with you. I really liked it. It was more existential than Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian, etc.
I can also understand that it's not what many people may have expected or been hoping for.
Not sure that everyone missed the point so much as found it was a relatively dull way to make such a point. This movie is really just a re-skin of 'Into The Wild', a film which achieves exactly what this movie attempts to, but in a much more engaging manner I think.
shareYeah It was a very boring movie regardless of what the point was.
Still gave it a 5/10
Loneliness? He didn't, like many people on earth who prefer to be alone, don't care about loneliness like the many sheeple that do.
Meaning of life. You have a point, if the you understand that the meaning of life for species on earth(and any other species living in the universe on a planet) is to survive in order to procreate then eventually die while the offspring repeats, until the species dies to circumstances out of their control(natural cataclysmic events, i.e. large meteorite) everything else is a social construct. Basically, eat, try not die or be killed, have sex, basic instincts.
Pure wonder, social construct, subjective, social construct.
Anyway, this movie was a fictional situational psychological thriller, leaving the audience to think about any of the circumstances brought up, whether it be the science behind creating water, the trip to mars, the information about space, technology, w/e. Saying someone missed the point is your way of saying, "hey, you didn't see things like I did."