Mission: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 2047. A mysterious planet has invaded the solar system. Its orbit is almost perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic of the solar system. Its signals correspond to Zapf’s law, and have much greater information entropy than human languages. People thought that this was an invitation from a highly developed civilization, and called the planet a messenger. To the edge of the solar system, in the Kuiper belt was sent a ship "Deep space" with a crew of 93 people. After 71 years, the crew, who were in a state of suspended animation, reached the Bulletin and began to study it. Hard Fiction is a rare guest on our TV screens. Most often, directors and producers prefer entertainment to science. The creators of the almost short film “Invisible Alien” departed from this rule, presenting to the court of fans of space fiction work that many will like.
The only drawback of the film - the predominance of scientific terminology - is its advantage, because it forces not only to look, but also to think. Of course, there is no more revelation in the film (all this to some extent wanders through the pages of the NF books), but the directors managed to mix an interesting approach to the topic of extraterrestrial civilizations. On this topic, an incredible number of frank skits have been shot, and for this reason the tape of Lu Jintao and Dave Zhang will go to fans of serious fiction. But they will notice the strange inconsistencies. For example, the research ship “Deep Space” reached the Herald 71 years!
At the same time, the automatic interplanetary station "New Horizons" - the only spacecraft that visited the Kuiper belt in 2015 - took nine and a half years to reach Pluto! Either the translation was wrong, or the taikonauts were in no hurry, confident that the Bulletin of the Decade would calmly wait for their arrival. Whatever it was, but the ship still got to the strange alien planet, and here it turns out that they flew in vain: high-energy ionizing radiation emanating from the bowels of the planet destroys automation both on the probes and on the ship itself. The research came to a standstill, and in the outer orbit it was possible to find a single branching crystal (such in geology is called dendrite).
It is from this moment that the main action begins. Flashbacks and flash forwards, almost absolute zero space vacuum and flooded compartments of the ship, the unexpected acquisition of lost body functions and the pain of mental loss. And above all this is a discussion about the essence of man as such, and an attempt by the limited modern knowledge of the mind to comprehend what stands so high above us that it is impossible to see with any telescope. Beautiful space movie with good, though not numerous scenery. With a minimum of actors: the captain of the ship Yuan, an artificial intelligence engineer Yin and Qi - anthropomorphic artificial intelligence (android).
Excellent, exhilarating music and chapter division of the timekeeping, which should order the scientific chaos in the mind of the viewer: Chapter 1: "Herald", Chapter 2: Renaissance, Chapter 3: Mutation, Chapter 4: "The ship of Theseus", Chapter 5: "Herald". A smart movie reminding each of us that we are all microscopic particles of primordial stellar matter. That we came from monkeys, but created us the Big Bang, and therefore do not forget that the greatest obstacle to the study of the universe is the mortal human body. .