Question:“On films that go to the stars”
On films that go to the stars
A film that goes to space ends in a close-up of a human face. The stars are backdrop. The question is always ours.
Three descend. Watch on the largest screen with the best sound you can reach. In these films, size is the content.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)A bone becomes a spaceship in one cut, and human history is in it.
- Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)In a rain-soaked future it asks what a human is.
- The Matrix (the Wachowskis, 1999)The story of a man before two pills reads new every time.
Daedalus invented flight, and he kept to the middle height.