The movie's intention is to challenge the idea that humanity must save itself by spreading to the stars. Instead, we should take a greater interest in our home planet and reinvigorate our commitment to taking good care of it.
The movie brought in mythological references that sailed right over my head. That's okay. Most things do.
I didn't mind the movie's slow, thoughtful, low-stress tempo. I kind of liked it, actually.
The one thing that really irked me was the main character's inexplicable underreaction to the sudden intrusion of a rude, entitled, and almost domineering man into her, yes, somewhat public but ultimately private world (her lab and home). I understood she was lonely, yes, but was she really so desperately lonely that she would just let anyone barge into her home, demand personal information from her, and then threaten not to leave until he got what he wanted? Was she not aware she might be robbed, killed or raped? How was this otherwise admirably self-reliant character so stupidly passive about this man? She had a plan for everything but this. This part seemed like a good setup for a teen romance novel, not a supposedly more mature meditation on our responsibility to our home planet.
It's fine.
What I really wanted to know at the end was: how are they going to make human #3?
The movie brought in mythological references that sailed right over my head. That's okay. Most things do.
I didn't mind the movie's slow, thoughtful, low-stress tempo. I kind of liked it, actually.
The one thing that really irked me was the main character's inexplicable underreaction to the sudden intrusion of a rude, entitled, and almost domineering man into her, yes, somewhat public but ultimately private world (her lab and home). I understood she was lonely, yes, but was she really so desperately lonely that she would just let anyone barge into her home, demand personal information from her, and then threaten not to leave until he got what he wanted? Was she not aware she might be robbed, killed or raped? How was this otherwise admirably self-reliant character so stupidly passive about this man? She had a plan for everything but this. This part seemed like a good setup for a teen romance novel, not a supposedly more mature meditation on our responsibility to our home planet.
It's fine.
What I really wanted to know at the end was: how are they going to make human #3?