![Christmas on Mars [DVD]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51pncFDIJgL.__AC_SX300_SY300_QL70_ML2_.jpg)
I understand how this movie is not to everyone's taste. It's weird, and pretty dark throughout (but ultimately very uplifting). But if you have adventurous taste in movies, enjoy seeing something genuinely independent and different, you should really check this out!
I think it's worth the price just to marvel over the incredibly clever low-budget production design! The Martian base and all the props are so fun to look at--they are all made from stuff you can buy at Home Depot, but they are so effective and creatively assembled. The locations too (much of it was filmed at an abandoned cement factory) are used in such a clever and compelling way. The film really has a fantastic visual look all the way through.
If you watch this expecting a conventional Christmas movie, you'll be completely perplexed, of course, but there actually is a beautiful message in it.
What I like best about this film though, is the genuinely scary depiction of what it must be like to be out in space (and no, I don't mean after taking too many drugs). The characters are so alienated and lost, and the environment so forbidding, that their mental health is starting to break down. Nothing about being out in space, millions of miles from home and our beautiful blue/green Earth, is scarier than realizing that the people with you are starting to lose it. (One character runs out the airlock without a space suit on and instantly dies and freezes in a hideously contorted pose). That unraveling combined with the harsh alien environment is depicted really well here, better than any other movie about space I've ever seen (and I'm watching dozens of them in preparation for a college class I'm teaching on space movies). "The Martian" with Matt Damon utterly fails at capturing this preternatural terror, in my opinion, but Christmas on Mars really gets it right. Why is everyone on Mars having nightmares? Because WE WEREN'T MEANT TO LIVE IN SPACE! as someone in the film explains.
As I said, the film is ultimately uplifting, which is saying a lot after all the dark places it goes. It's not a joke, and not a deliberately bad movie as some other reviewer said. It's an idiosyncratic and independent work of art, an obvious labor of love, and a genuine statement about . . . about . . . well, that's not easy to answer, but I believe it has a lot to say about being human and what that entails. What we need to keep from going out of our minds in a cold, uncaring universe. Hope. Love. Beauty. Finding your own happiness.
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Daniel J Cross
A darkly beautiful experimental film!
2016年9月13日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Daniel J Cross
2016年9月13日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
I think it's worth the price just to marvel over the incredibly clever low-budget production design! The Martian base and all the props are so fun to look at--they are all made from stuff you can buy at Home Depot, but they are so effective and creatively assembled. The locations too (much of it was filmed at an abandoned cement factory) are used in such a clever and compelling way. The film really has a fantastic visual look all the way through.
If you watch this expecting a conventional Christmas movie, you'll be completely perplexed, of course, but there actually is a beautiful message in it.
What I like best about this film though, is the genuinely scary depiction of what it must be like to be out in space (and no, I don't mean after taking too many drugs). The characters are so alienated and lost, and the environment so forbidding, that their mental health is starting to break down. Nothing about being out in space, millions of miles from home and our beautiful blue/green Earth, is scarier than realizing that the people with you are starting to lose it. (One character runs out the airlock without a space suit on and instantly dies and freezes in a hideously contorted pose). That unraveling combined with the harsh alien environment is depicted really well here, better than any other movie about space I've ever seen (and I'm watching dozens of them in preparation for a college class I'm teaching on space movies). "The Martian" with Matt Damon utterly fails at capturing this preternatural terror, in my opinion, but Christmas on Mars really gets it right. Why is everyone on Mars having nightmares? Because WE WEREN'T MEANT TO LIVE IN SPACE! as someone in the film explains.
As I said, the film is ultimately uplifting, which is saying a lot after all the dark places it goes. It's not a joke, and not a deliberately bad movie as some other reviewer said. It's an idiosyncratic and independent work of art, an obvious labor of love, and a genuine statement about . . . about . . . well, that's not easy to answer, but I believe it has a lot to say about being human and what that entails. What we need to keep from going out of our minds in a cold, uncaring universe. Hope. Love. Beauty. Finding your own happiness.
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Alan R Lenius
very strange
2023年1月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
John C Vick Jr
The Lips always put love in what they do
2021年1月24日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Lord Darkraven FierceEyes
2 good parts, mostly not
2008年12月6日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Synical
Hard to watch, slow and weird
2011年4月25日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
