The documentary is narrated by Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Toni Myers. IMAX Entertainment teamed up with NASA to produce this extraordinary film. It begins with a long introduction with a slow zoom in of a galaxy with the voice of Ms. Lawrence. The film begins with a vast number of videos and pictures of space, planets, and the one we live on, Earth. The film then begins to show who is taking those photos, the astronauts. The astronauts staring in the film were living in the ISS. The astronauts from around the world are Virts, Cristoforetti and Anton Shkaplerov. The astronauts are NASA are Kjell Lindgren, Butch Wilmore, and Scott Kelly. It was interesting when the movie began to zoom around the globe and show what different parts of earth look like from space. Sometimes when I watch movies of circling around earth, I am unsure of where it is, so it does not seem as captivating. This film does a good job of describing exactly what you are looking at as they are showing it. There are a few times it feels they want to fill screen time with random photos, but every photo is a masterpiece within itself. I enjoyed listening to the astronauts, and cosmonauts talk about their daily lives, and what they go through. The entire film flashes between inside the ISS, and outside the ISS. I believe they should have shown some of the more exciting stuff that goes on around the ISS, like genuine interactions and more dialogue. Every picture of the film has the name "Jennifer Lawrence" all over which is a great branding technique for those people who watch films for the actor not the plot. I am sometimes ones of those people as well, and I fell for it too. I felt that if this company can hire such a famous actor into voicing the film, then this film must have money into it as well. I don't believe you need money to film something great, but for a documentary it allows for more ability to get better shots. In this case the photographers were NASA, and the team on the ISS. At the end Jennifer gave the audience a guidance into keeping the beautiful planet clean, and safe. Overall, the documentary was great I was just surprised it was only 40 minutes. This was a well-kept film that I enjoyed watching.
Review of A Beautiful Planet
