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A "Manchester by the Sea" in a sci-fi coat
Nels 2022-04-20 09:01:44
This is a "Manchester by the Sea" in a sci-fi garb, another movie full of grief, and another life full of guilt. When a person makes a mistake, how can he be redeemed? How do you get forgiveness? Can you forgive yourself? In the movie, the female protagonist who has just been admitted to MIT drives drunk and kills the male protagonist's pregnant wife and son. Four years in prison did not bring Rhoda redemption, and she was still engulfed by guilt. She allowed herself to live an ascetic life and tried her best to make up for the male lead, but many things, once they happened, could never be undone. We can only carry this self-blame and pain through this life until we die. This unsolvable problem in the real world, the movie solved with science fiction. In another parallel world, the car accident didn't happen. But in real life, there is no parallel world.
Extended Reading
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Rhoda Williams: You know that story of the Russian cosmonaut? So, the cosmonaut, He's the first man ever to go into space. Right? The Russians beat the Americans. So he goes up in this big spaceship, but the only habitable part of it's very small. So the cosmonaut's in there, and he's got this portal window, and he's looking out of it, and he sees the curvature of the Earth for the first time. I mean, the first man to ever look at the planet he's from. And he's lost in that moment. And all of a sudden this strange ticking... Begins coming out of the dashboard. Rips out the control panel, right? Takes out his tools. Trying to find the sound, trying to stop the sound. But he can't find it. He can't stop it. It keeps going. Few hours into this, begins to feel like torture. A few days go by with this sound, and he knows that this small sound... will break him. He'll lose his mind. What's he gonna do? He's up in space, alone, in a space closet. He's got 25 days left to go... with this sound. So the cosmonaut decides... the only way to save his sanity... is to fall in love with this sound. So he closes his eyes... and he goes into his imagination, and then he opens them. He doesn't hear ticking anymore. He hears music. And he spends the sailing through space in total bliss... and peace.
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DJ Flava: Just imagine that you're asleep, and then you wake. You're not sure where you are. You're not sure if anyone else is around. What would you probably do first? You would likely look around and say, "Hello? Hello?". You're attempting to find "am I alone?". We - here on Earth - would like to know.