Moonshot (2022)
Directed by Christopher Winterbauer
In a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer, two very different college students wind up joining forces and sneak onboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to be united with their significant others.
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And nobody has ever wanted to go there more than Walt — not Brad Pitt in “Ad Astra,” not Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Total Recall,” not even Grimes in… the life of Grimes.
So many recent space movies — Arrival (2016), Interstellar (2014), First Man (2018), Ad Astra (2019) — have used the template as a means of exploring grief, unresolved trauma and loss, converting the act of leaving Earth into a metaphor for outrunning one’s own internal churn, that it’s refreshing to find a film that reduces the grandiose nature of interstellar travel to a backdrop for a sweet, frothy love story instead.
Indem der gängige Mix aus Roadmovie und Liebesfilm ins Weltall verlegt wird, kommt es tatsächlich teilweise zu einer interessanten Variation von Standardsituationen (wie es sie in ähnlicher Form auch schon im Science-Fiction-Beitrag "Passengers" aus dem Jahre 2016 gab, der allerdings einen deutlich düstereren Weg wählte).
So many recent space movies — Arrival (2016), Interstellar (2014), First Man (2018), Ad Astra (2019) — have used the template as a means of exploring grief, unresolved trauma and loss, converting the act of leaving Earth into a metaphor for outrunning one’s own internal churn, that it’s refreshing to find a film that reduces the grandiose nature of interstellar travel to a backdrop for a sweet, frothy love story instead.
So many recent space movies — Arrival (2016), Interstellar (2014), First Man (2018), Ad Astra (2019) — have used the template as a means of exploring grief, unresolved trauma and loss, converting the act of leaving Earth into a metaphor for outrunning one’s own internal churn, that it’s refreshing to find a film that reduces the grandiose nature of interstellar travel to a backdrop for a sweet, frothy love story instead.