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Aniara (2018)
28 Jan 2024 17:25I watched it today. It's ... kinda artsy? Very obviously not a Hollywood film (starting from the fact that the credits are at the start). As a result, it also felt slow-paced. Everything also felt understated, including the main romance, which was between two women.
Basic plot: the ship Aniara is on a voyage from climate crisis-ridden Earth to Mars, full of migrants, when they have to dodge some debris that nonetheless kills their reactor and thus ability to steer. The film then follows the aftermath, centered on a member of the ship's crew who goes by MR.
Content notes for the film: suicide, murder-suicide.
The story's segmented to multiple sections, with title cards saying how many years into the unwitting voyage of the Aniara they are. The film cuts to the next card in a place I'd almost always call mid-scene; there is no resolution for each incident, only a timeskip.
...oh, it was adapted from a '56 epic poem. That would explain the artsy feel. Also this inspired Tau Zero ('70), so, well, given how Tau Zero ended, I think I am justified in calling Tau Zero spiritual fix-it fic for Aniara the poem.
Also it was nice to watch something with a more casual/naturalistic approach to sex and nudity than the US. The women fucking in the shower was appreciated, even if the mirror orgy was unexpected and the full-screen tongue zoom-in on het kissing was bleh.
Vid ideas (since that's why I watched the film):
- MR and Isagel with some visual cheating to achieve a HEA
- a supercut of all the deaths and things dying around people, with their ship the sarcophagus arriving at the planet eons too late to save them
- space footage? there was some interesting vfx there
Basic plot: the ship Aniara is on a voyage from climate crisis-ridden Earth to Mars, full of migrants, when they have to dodge some debris that nonetheless kills their reactor and thus ability to steer. The film then follows the aftermath, centered on a member of the ship's crew who goes by MR.
Content notes for the film: suicide, murder-suicide.
The story's segmented to multiple sections, with title cards saying how many years into the unwitting voyage of the Aniara they are. The film cuts to the next card in a place I'd almost always call mid-scene; there is no resolution for each incident, only a timeskip.
...oh, it was adapted from a '56 epic poem. That would explain the artsy feel. Also this inspired Tau Zero ('70), so, well, given how Tau Zero ended, I think I am justified in calling Tau Zero spiritual fix-it fic for Aniara the poem.
Also it was nice to watch something with a more casual/naturalistic approach to sex and nudity than the US. The women fucking in the shower was appreciated, even if the mirror orgy was unexpected and the full-screen tongue zoom-in on het kissing was bleh.
Vid ideas (since that's why I watched the film):
- MR and Isagel with some visual cheating to achieve a HEA
- a supercut of all the deaths and things dying around people, with their ship the sarcophagus arriving at the planet eons too late to save them
- space footage? there was some interesting vfx there