Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. Reeling, the U. S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
I really liked this film and watched in one sitting, quite entranced by the story, and excited by the drama.
OK the production isn't great, and the photography appears to have been done with no lighting on an android phone. The acting wasn't great but the dialogue was more than passable.
However, it's touching how they mention the first view of the earth through the cupola at the beginning, saying how we see ourselves all as one race, with no borders. But later, they are all fighting to the death simply because they were told to. There scientific minds and unique spiritual view from space meant nothing once war broke out on earth.
I did not see it as a love story as some say, I saw it as a vision that war isn't created by different nationalities, it's created by different people. At the end the only survivors are those who ignored the orders of their overlords, and relied on their humanity to pull them through.
At the end while the escape pod silently detaches from the ISS, we hear the US ground crew voice stating, "We will help any American on board." Despite an all out nuclear war, people look through the eyes of nationality and forget that space explorer scientists are united in their endeavours and dreams. They belong to the science of exploration primarily and their geographical nationality secondarily.
Right now, at this moment in earth time, this film says stop: look at who is creating war. Don't listen to them. Rise above it. We are intelligent humans and we don't need to be controlled by a handful of individuals who want us to murder our fellow humans, for their own power gratification. Let's be better than them.
I really liked this film and watched in one sitting, quite entranced by the story, and excited by the drama.
OK the production isn't great, and the photography appears to have been done with no lighting on an android phone. The acting wasn't great but the dialogue was more than passable.
However, it's touching how they mention the first view of the earth through the cupola at the beginning, saying how we see ourselves all as one race, with no borders. But later, they are all fighting to the death simply because they were told to. There scientific minds and unique spiritual view from space meant nothing once war broke out on earth.
I did not see it as a love story as some say, I saw it as a vision that war isn't created by different nationalities, it's created by different people. At the end the only survivors are those who ignored the orders of their overlords, and relied on their humanity to pull them through.
At the end while the escape pod silently detaches from the ISS, we hear the US ground crew voice stating, "We will help any American on board." Despite an all out nuclear war, people look through the eyes of nationality and forget that space explorer scientists are united in their endeavours and dreams. They belong to the science of exploration primarily and their geographical nationality secondarily.
Right now, at this moment in earth time, this film says stop: look at who is creating war. Don't listen to them. Rise above it. We are intelligent humans and we don't need to be controlled by a handful of individuals who want us to murder our fellow humans, for their own power gratification. Let's be better than them.