"Proxima Centauri" is an astronaut-themed work with delicate emotions. In recent years, there have been many movies focusing on the emotional flow of astronauts rather than just space missions. "The First Man in Space" tells of Armstrong. Several missions and as the mission progressed, the estrangement with the family; "Lucy in the Sky" focuses on the alienation and endless loneliness of female astronauts after returning to Earth; "Proxima Centauri" also focuses on The story of the female astronaut, but almost all the plot takes place before the spacecraft is ignited. Sara, swinging between her mother and the astronaut identity, her inner twists and turns and physical fatigue are slowly revealed in the details. Feelings that cannot be let go are like wounds that cannot be healed. It may be more difficult to be a good mother than to be a good astronaut.
1. The round dance of Proxima Centauri
Sara was selected to participate in a mission to explore Mars called "Proxima Centauri". While excited, she was also a little melancholy. Her daughter Stella, who lives with her, will not be able to see her mother for a long time, although she can The daughter entrusted her to her ex-husband, but how to deal with the relationship with her daughter has become Sara's most worthy concern before setting off.
The mother’s longing for the child and the child’s dissatisfaction with the mother became the complex emotions between the two who could not figure out the clues. As the training intensity increased, a small wound on Sara’s leg could not heal, and it started unexpectedly. Slowly infected, just like the relationship between her and her daughter. She realized with trepidation that not only her daughter needed Sara’s company, but Sara was also very worried that she would lose Stella. In every video recorded by her ex-husband that recorded her daughter, Stella was growing up fast, and she was about to fly. Going to Mars, in a few years, maybe the world will not change much, but emotions will gradually deteriorate due to time and distance, and her daughter will grow into an image she is unfamiliar with.
Stella, in the movie, is a child with literacy and arithmetic difficulties. Perhaps because the mother often goes to many places for training, they often move. Stella fears the ever-changing world and keeps leaving from familiar and comfortable homes, and the future is also full of Unknowable horror: Will my dad dislike his cat, whether he can make friends when he goes to a new school, whether he can still keep up with his studies, and most importantly, mother Sara, will be away from herself for a long, long time .
The long-distance pulling of two emotions is like two stars attracting each other but gradually moving away from each other. They laugh, cry, grow, and become strong in a rotating round dance.
2. Women on the balance beam
Maintaining a balance between family and work makes Sara physically and mentally exhausted, and apart from the previous part of the story about family emotions, another very important end of the film is Sara's identity as a woman.
I was a little worried at the beginning, because Mike, an astronaut in the same group, apparently made some frivolous jokes and thought Sara should reduce her training intensity. Fortunately, this prejudice was only a flash in the movie, but Mike was right. As a female astronaut, Sarah has to work harder to maintain her position due to her natural physical disadvantages. Sometimes she may be aggressive, sometimes she may be victorious, but in such a society where the weak and the strong, no one You will be given special treatment because you are a woman.
There is a very interesting plot. When the staff asked Sara if she wanted to stop her menstruation during this period, Sara refused, so she was able to bring a tampons to the limited weight of the personal items in the universe. weight. She said that the weight of personal belongings has to squeeze one's life into the 1.5 kg load, and the weight of feminine products may be part of the weight of life necessary to mark Sara's gender.
In this film, the attitude towards male characters is actually very subtle. In addition to Mike’s slightly biased speech at the beginning, throughout the film, all male characters are actually relatively positive. Mike and another Russian pilot She will comfort the sad Sara. Sara’s ex-husband is also doing his best to take care of her daughter Stella’s growth. On the other hand, Sarah, she is the most devastated character, struggling with her daughter’s relationship and the vortex of hard training. When I broke the rules and let my daughter listen to the report, she ran a long way to find her daughter. On the last night before the launch, she went over the fence and watched the rocket with her daughter. Sarah wandered on the balance beam between family and work because she was Women, so go more cautiously.
3. Dawn's Rockets
In the end, the mother took her daughter to watch the plot of the rocket, which made me feel very entangled. On the one hand, the mother fulfilled the promise with her daughter, woke up the sleeping daughter at great risk, and took her to the rocket base. Glancing at the rocket that is about to launch, this is indeed very touching. A lot of my daughter’s previous worries, and a little regret for not being able to stay with her mother for the last time, were quietly dispelled in the mother and daughter’s company this time, so her daughter can safely follow the rocket’s countdown and watch her mother go to the distant starry sky. This section is very beautiful.
But on the other hand, Sara is also very irresponsible in this paragraph. The government and the country invested a lot of time and money in cultivating her to become an astronaut and be qualified to participate in this mission. Sara is expected and paid attention to by so many people, and she herself should also realize what she shoulders. Burdened, her behavior of breaking out of the wall after entering the isolation state may not have caused any consequences from the results. However, this behavior undoubtedly increases a lot of risks, including the risk of her infecting bacteria in the outside world, including It is definitely not a reasonable and responsible astronaut’s behavior.
However, since this is a movie, I will tolerate such a thing for the time being, as it is a surreal lyrical poem. On the eve of take-off, the astronaut brought his daughter close to the rocket that is about to launch. Such a scene, Although unreal, it is also extremely romantic.
The role of Eva Green is to be an astronaut while trying to be an excellent mother. Of course, she can train, train, and retrain, and constantly perfect to become an impeccable astronaut, but the role of mother is not so. There are many opportunities to be "tolerated" and "missed". Although Sarah manages her relationship with Stella in the movie, she still misses her daughter’s growth in the past few years, when she hears her daughter in the isolation room Sarah was incredibly unbelievable when she said that she had a high score in the math test, because in her memory, Stella was not proficient in mathematics, so this kind of missed years made her extremely painful, and it was only a few weeks. Changes over the course of months. What Sara and Stella will face is the difference in years, the distance counted in tens of thousands of kilometers, so every astronaut who is far away from home will not only endure the physical changes brought about by weightlessness, but also The loneliness far away from relatives.
So when the end of the film shows the pictures of those female astronauts with happy families, we can also appreciate their sacrifice and abandonment. Of course, this abandonment is not only for women. All astronauts flying to the frontier of the universe are all A lot of personal interests have been given up for the cause of human exploration. One day if we fly to the moon, to Mars, or even to the galaxy of Proxima Centauri, we must remember these explorations when we are bathed in the warm light of another star. Unknown pioneers.
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