The film is very interesting, primarily visually. Technique has already reached such a level that everything here seems so natural that it seems that all this is real and we, looking at the screens of televisions, for a second it may seem that we are flying in a real spaceship, at a speed above the speed of light and in an hour and a half we reach the edge of the observable universe, which, by the way, is made simply masterpiece.
I was also interested in this film from the point of view of facts. I learned a lot about the solar system and about our galaxy and universe in general. I understood some things about black matter, I learned what a quasar is. As a science fiction film, it’s very good, but if it had stayed that way from the start, it would have been much better. But its developers went further, and it seems to me completely in vain.
They wanted to connect our planet to the universe. Or rather, they wanted to connect us humans. And after each interesting hypothesis, the storytellers constantly paid attention to people, how we could appear on our planet, how life began. There is a saying: “How many people, so many opinions.” So, in this situation, she fits perfectly. I think everyone has their own understanding of the world, and in particular, how life began. Religious people have one vision, atheists have another. Everyone has their own understanding of the world. So why do storytellers impose theirs on us? I think the director of the film was a fan of Stanley Kubrick's "Space Odyssey," because at certain points in the film he appeals to similar motives. But Kubrick operated within the solar system, and within it he was able to describe so many philosophical motives. And the director at such moments throws in the heat, then in the cold. And at such moments, watching the film becomes, frankly, boring, which sharply removes its value. But again, as a scientific and educational film, it is very valuable.
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