This movie is about astronauts traveling to the other end of the galaxy to find a new home to replace humanity’s despoiled home-world. It uses booming music to jack up the excitement level of scenes that might not otherwise excite. Everyone on the crew of the Endurance, the starship, was sent to a black hole near Jupiter that will slingshot the heroes towards colonize-able worlds, they’re separated from everything that defines them: their loved ones, their personal histories, their culture, the planet itself. There's a ghost in this film, writing out messages to the living in dust. Characters strain to interpret distant radio messages as if they were ancient texts written in a dead language, and stare at video messages sent years ago, by people on the other side of the cosmos. It has a family haunted by the memory of a dead mother and then an absent father; a woman haunted by the memory of a missing father, and another woman who's separated from her own dad (and men...
Zima Blue: go ahead and check the blogs of your group / classmates to see what I was expecting here. You need to write a lot more, and go beyond the plain notes: make them come to life through your personal approach and research
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