There is more to the film than just the varied and exciting scenery (Quebec), the overwrought sets of ruined spaceships, the river thrill ride and accompanying music. As sci-fi, it's a rather tired theme, the reversion to savagery in colonizers isolated from the warm embrace of earth. I may be overambitious, but I saw homage to "The Revenant", "Cloud Atlas", "Avatar", and "Alien". It looks as though it will have a much worse financial return than any of those, but that's the risk they took.
There is a parable in the story, a central question in human relations: what if the thoughts of men were known? How would our society survive? The writers of this parable also pushed forward a distinction between that ugly thought mess which men have and women's thoughts do not, those (as revealed solely through actions and spoken words) being much more straightforward, uncomplicated, and yes, beautiful. It is no accident that the rating by women here is a full point higher than those of men.
One additional point: The "noise" conceit of the original novel gives it all a stream-of-consciousness vibe that I haven't seen for awhile. I for one was glad to watch it, with all its somewhat corny virtues.
There is a parable in the story, a central question in human relations: what if the thoughts of men were known? How would our society survive? The writers of this parable also pushed forward a distinction between that ugly thought mess which men have and women's thoughts do not, those (as revealed solely through actions and spoken words) being much more straightforward, uncomplicated, and yes, beautiful. It is no accident that the rating by women here is a full point higher than those of men.
One additional point: The "noise" conceit of the original novel gives it all a stream-of-consciousness vibe that I haven't seen for awhile. I for one was glad to watch it, with all its somewhat corny virtues.