Life: Sci Fi Film
Sept 24, 2019 17:55:42 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Sept 24, 2019 17:55:42 GMT -5
Life: Sci Fi Film
Life is a 2017 American sci-fi horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ryan Reynolds. The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers the first evidence of life on Mars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)
Life is a 2017 American sci-fi horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ryan Reynolds. The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers the first evidence of life on Mars.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)
Life: Sci Fi Film
I found this film's theme of the discovery of life from Mars very interesting. However there behaviorally unconvincing scenes which either distract or insult viewer inrtelligence. After all, are we to really being expected to believe that this crew also suffers from moral blindness that the crew of the Nostromo displayed in the film Alien when the Nostromo crew failed to notice how science officer Nash had helped the alien take control of the ship?
This dubious scemario plays out when the station's crew appears to be totally oblivious to how Exobiologist Hugh Derry cooperated with this alien by permitting it to secretly feed off his leg while calmly making excuses that Calvin was merely trying to survive and wasn't really evil. After finding out, there was absolutely no astonishment or anger towardsHugh,. Instead they reverentlyshow concern for his remains as if he had been innocent of all wrongdoing.
Another distraction is the illogical behavior of ISS commander Ekaterina Golovkina after being attacked by Calvin during her space walk. After she desperately struggles and succeeds in reaching the airlock, she then changes her mind and struggles with the door's outer latch mechanism to prevent it from opening inorder to keep Calvin out.
Well gee! If indeed this is how she felt, then she could have done so by hurling herself away from the station in order to take Calving with her into deep space. So the prolonged struggle between her and the crew member inside who was attempting to rescue her, seems illogically contrived.
Another unbelievable unprofessional negligence is the handling of an alien organism with rubber gloves. Please note that doing so indicates a confidence that Calvin had no glove-piercing capability or sufficient strength to harm the hand inside it. Strange, since they had clearly described it as being all muscle at the very outset.
Also unbelievable is that only one person among the crew was informed about the emergency measure of pushing the station away from Earth orbit if any alien trouble ensued. Why is it unbelievable? Simple! Because such life-threatening scenarios are considered beforehand with any space-station crew since they have a right to know. So asking us to believe that the rest of the crew were totally ignorant this very crucial life-or-death factorstretches believability a bit. Actually, it seems as if they included that dubious detail in order to have the Asian guy make a dash towards what he believed to be a rescue attempt when it had merely been an attempt to push the station into deep space along with its alien cargo.
Finally there is the curious scene where David asks Miranda: "Do you trust me?" in reference to his escape plan and she responds with "I trust you!" This is simply too similar to the final scene in the film Titanic when Jack, played by Dicaprio, asks Rose, played by Winslet, the same question and gets the identical response. True! It's cute to see a female behave in that totally trusting way towards a man. But imitations are distracting and other words would have been just as effective.
As to the acting? Overall it was OK. However, they did seem a bit too calm and overconfident wile planning the spacewalk. Remember, this was after Calvin had savagely mangled Hughés hand forcing him to yell for help prior to blacking out. It was also after Calvin had employed a metal tool to pierce the glove and get out of its enclosure. It was after Calvin had ravenously devoured a live rat by totally enveloping it. It was after Calvin had proven itself totally impervious to blowtorch heat, and swiftly forced itself down crew-member Engineer Rory Adam's gullet, murdering him and suddenly increasing in size in the process before and escaping via a ventilation conduit.
This should have had them al in a state of frayed nerves similar to the one displayed by the crew of the Nostromo in the film, Alien when the alien had escaped. Yet we understood that we would have felt the same fear even though it had not as yet shown the destructive ability that Calvin did.