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🎙️ EPISODE 249: 03.11.20
In a banner year for artful and/or weird space sci fi, Ad Astra works because it's lack of a trick is kind of a trick. Whereas other recent films set among the stars have been propelled by big issues like climate change, this takes the inconceivable vastness and distance and makes it feel insular. As a metaphor for a fractured relationship between a father and son, it literally can’t get any bigger (or more obvious). When it’s all said and done, the facts are laid bare. There’s no Christopher Nolan mind-screw or “too clever for its own good” twist. And it’s not all daddy issues and voiceover either, there’s some dystopian geopolitical stuff bubbling under the surface that is interesting, and feels somehow stronger in its vagueness (I’m looking at you moon pirates and, of course, vicious space baboons – you guys rule). Ultimately, though, it’s about Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We can’t save the world unless we finally learn to understand our parents and the motivation behind their life choices. It just feels that we can. |
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