David John Coleman II

Despite all the negative reviews, I decided to see for myself. I really liked the movie and thought that it was very well done for what it seems to be attempting to accomplish. It touches on a variety of themes such as sci fi, apocalypse, space travel, and family dynamics. I recommend the movie for people that enjoy psychological study of movie characters and or sci fi themed movies. I have to say that a lot of the questions or unexplained plot that critics have about the movie are actually quite obviously explained through a bit of inductive logic and understanding of the circumstances of the plot. The character development is great. I’ve seen criticism that the movie is just depressing but indeed the end is quite impressively redemptive. (SPOILERS AHEAD) Augustine is trying to save his daughter that he never knew. His visions of her keep him going through some arctic weather until he eventually helps to save her where she charts course for a planet he helped to discover. In the end his guilt for neglecting his daughter with his life’s work is redeemed by saving her with that very obsession of his work. He does not share his truth that he is her father because either he actually is not, or because his one conversation with her is cut short by his daughter’s trips obstacles and he chooses to attempt to get to know her rather than using his one conversation with her to ask for some type of forgiveness or whatever it would be like to share his identity as her father.