George Clooney's The Midnight Sky is filled with stunning images of outer space, intense scenes of survival against the elements, and many statements about the human condition. The movie follows two sets of characters amid their perilous and isolated journeys. And while they might be separated by a great distance, Clooney's Augustine and Felicity Jones' Sully have a lot more in common than either of them knows.
As their stories become intertwined throughout the movie, there are a lot of subtle details that you may have missed. Beware, spoilers ahead!
In the beginning of The Midnight Sky, after Augustine has been voluntarily left behind by the evacuating researchers, he proceeds to clean out the belongings of those who left and throws away a small statue of a wolf. If you read the book on which the film is based, Lily Brooks-Dalton's Good Morning, Midnight, you might recognize the significance of that figurine as it's something of a nod to a key scene from the book. In the novel, Augustine has several memorable encounters with arctic animals, including one in which a white wolf approaches Iris.
Augustine kills the animal to protect Iris, but she's actually very upset by this. That's because she read a field guide that indicates arctic wolves may not be aggressive to humans since they don't fear them. In a later scene from The Midnight Sky, Iris can be seen cuddling a stuffed dog, which is another nod to her compassion for the wolf.
A howling image | 0:00
Playing for two | 1:17
A family competition | 1:53
A symbol for the future | 2:40
The game is afoot | 3:49
What's in a name? | 4:16
A voice in the cold | 4:59
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In the aftermath of a global catastrophe, a lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts with a warning not to return to Earth.