Have you experienced total confinement in your life? It is unusual to experience for normal people even in Earth but the main character in this movie was stuck alone in the planet of Mars. About 80% of this movie’s background is mars and this place definitely plays key role in this movie. It emphasizes survival instinct of human and strong companionships among groups of theirs.
One reason for Mars being indispensible factor of this movie is that it shows people’s strong survival instinct. There are some movies already deals with survival in isolated island such as ‘Cast Away’. However, this movie ‘The Martian’ is showing more of our survival instinct by choosing movie’s background by Mars. As we know, Mars is another planet of ours, there is not enough natural resources to live. These limited condition makes dramatic scenes in the movie. For instance, the main character is growing potatoes in the spacecraft by humans manure. Also, the main character is making all kinds of essential sources to survive including water and oxygens which is natural in Earth. Obviously, Mars which contains harsh and deserted environment shows strong survival instinct of human.
Another reason for Mars being important factor is it stresses touching companionship among crews of spacecraft. The main character was working for NASA and left behind while their crew was exploring Mars for scientific research. While he was struggling to survive in Mars, movie also shows the rest of crews are also trying hard to rescue the main character. One of scene draws these strong connection is that despite of risk for dying, all of their crews decide to go back to Mars to save him. Also, there were some obstacles outside the space but they pulled through it well under one strong purpose to save their friend. This friendship could stand out because of Mars. If the place was easy to reach it won‘t be that dramatic. Because the Mars is very far from us and hard to get there, we could feel more touching companionships among them.
There was no movie that deals with survival in place of Mars. This fact gave me freshness and also Mars in movie provided me chance to think about human’s survival instinct and friendship as well. As science develops and world environment are changing we might face more various dangerous situations like the main character. Like this movie says, it is important to keep two word ‘survive and friend’ in our minds.
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