Directed by Ridley Scott, based on the book by Andy
Weir
Disco is dead for a reason. I fear it is about to make
a comeback of sorts, however, given its prominence in this wonderful movie
about a near-future “Robinson Crusoe on Mars.” Everyone, I’m sure, knows the
basic plot, based on the previews alone: One of the six first astronauts to
walk the surface of the red planet is believed killed in a freak accident
during an emergency evacuation – but he survives, stranded, with only a
fraction of the supplies he will need to survive the four years before another
manned mission could possibly reach him, given the realities of orbital
mechanics. He has no choice but to start “sciencing the shit” out of his hopeless situation.
What results is, as was the book, an amazing, uplifting tale of human
endurance, innovation, cooperation,
and ultimate triumph that I’m not going to make any more detailed comments on
than that, except for these few:
