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The movie is more of a tearjerker about a dyeing man, had a terminal illness, who is looking back on his life and trying to make peace with the daughter he abandoned for his career.

The scene where the crew member notices a small drop of blood appearing inside her space suit, was very well done and a pretty damn scary situation. 👍

Their face when they realized they were the only ones left was priceless

After 1 hour and 58 minutes, I asked out loud "Where's the rest of the movie?"

I wish he would’ve focused more on what really happened on earth and the consequences of it, he spent a lot of time on the movie with no one saying anything and nothing happening.

He abandoned his daughter to pursue his work. Now his discovery offers humanity (through the daughter he abandoned) the chance of a new beginning. The irony.

As soon as Augustine took the transfusion machine I said to myself " let's see how he loses that thing " Anyone think the same?

can we just all agree the young augustine looked nothing like Clooney

I like how the last scene with Iris and Ade was left slowly, uneventful and they took their time, yes to show the credits, but i felt something else. typically in space movies - it seems all action and fast paced, the last scene was just the two slowly working, playing with some buttons and then both just leaving - while seemingly uneventful, it shows how long, slow, and even mundane the journey ahead of them to reach and build the new world.

Basically everyone in the movie knows they are gonna die no matter what and they all just accept it.

I mean he literally stayed behind and gave himself blood transfusions so that he could warn them he did everything he could to be a good father in the end

I loved this film for what it was. The visuals were amazing and the final shot of George Clooney's character looking at the horizon were both depressing and beautiful.

Lots of people predicted this twist in the comments of the trailer.

Please change the title to "Entire movie explained"

In one scene Kyle Chandler's character is watching the film "On the Beach" which is a tale of the last survivors of a nuclear war waiting for the spreading radiation to finally reach them in Australia. I took that as the clue that the "event" was a global nuclear war.

The problem is that they are only two humans and if they want to restart a human race their children have to interbreed which is a really bad idea. The screenplay should be better written. Like there is a another space ship with colonists heading toward this moon.

When they said they didn’t hear anything about that colonization ship, it does not mean it haven’t been sent to Jupiter. Maybe they will meet them there, because I think when humanity would be this fucked, we would do anything to survive.

To all the commenters going on about only two people going back to the planet, there was a colonising ship already on it's way there, they could not communicate with it, that does not mean it is gone.

ngl this movie is misunderstood a lot, there’s a lot of key points and emotions that are hidden not showed detailedly to let us think what could possibly happen. I personally love this movie and tbh it’s not really boring, all things were shown depressingly because that’s the reality. The whole quietness of the movie was so loud and i love it.

Not sure why but I enjoyed the movie, maybe me being a new father to a baby girl I felt a connection to the movie but also personally made me think about how much time I spend working over spending time with her 😌

This movie was two hours of depressingly interesting...

George Clooney tells young Iris to never take off her mask and she doesn't have it at the mid point of their journey is another easter egg alluding to her not being real.

The lazy "We're not going to tell you how this tragedy happened" screen writing in the last 15 years has grown incredibly irksome.

The fact that’s it’s staged on 2049 makes this a little more haunting than I thought. 2020 hasn’t exactly provided the optimism that a catastrophic event like the one on Midnight Sky’s Earth is impossible

The entire movie was basically just the beginning of several potential plots. Like a giant mixed trailer.

I think the events of the movie we're all in the mind of a brilliant 'dying' scientist. Let me explain. Augustine's life choices consists of him alienating people, in the pursuit of discovering a better world (a utopia or 'heaven'). I believe Augustine not only hallucinates the 'young Iris' to help himself cope with his loneliness and his unresolved issues... but also the older version. He is telling himself a story while he receives his blood transfusion, as he stares up at 'The Midnight Sky'. To be clear I believe that all of the crew members were real people; but like everyone else, they are now dead. I believe that Augustine imagines his daughter became an astronaut much in the same way that Sanchez imagined his dead daughter as a grown woman, being friends with Maya, and having conversations about college/boys. It has to be pretty scary knowing that you're the last person on Earth and that you're going to die soon. I just find it too much of a coincidence that of all of the ships in space, the Aether is the only one still active and just happens to have Augustine's daughter aboard.

Being a parent, I guess all that worrying about the 8- year- old travelling with AL in the snow was unnecessary for it came to nothing...😰

I just saw the movie after watching the trailer, and the ending was really beautiful and sad at the same time. I accually cried a little

I think Netflix could have had a happier movie over the Christmas holiday. Who needs to watch something depressing considering what's going on in the world.

Wow nice observation. Ive just finished fhe movie and I think I like it a bit more now after watching your explanation, tho I still think it could be better in some aspects. thank you :)

bro i feel like ur video needs to be part of the package of the movie , it literally answered all my ans for the movie

Well that was depressing Human race obviously won’t survive unless they do a game of thrones 😩

Consider this: Get a pinhole leak in your space suit, where would the pressurized air go? The blood? The suit is shown with blood on the outside so it had a hole in it, her air reserve may have been able to keep up for a minute but the vacuum of space would have bled her out so no drops in the helmet. The reverse is true as well, if you are underwater and at pressure you can cut yourself and not bleed until you surface.

We can gather that there was a nuclear disaster, so it's OK that they don't fully explain. However, the reason the ship went off course is something important to at least touch on, as it is the catalyst for all the issues they run into. The 2 crew members should not have been allowed to leave and go back to Earth at the end, taking valuable resources (people and equipment) and making it that much less likely that the ship will be able to return to the remote moon. Also, don't we need as many people as possible, to try to rebuild the human race? All we needed was a quick blip that told us the colony ship reached out to them, and they were going to join up for the trip -- this would have made the 2 departures more acceptable. A few little tweaks would have addressed some burning issues.

The story was slow at times but beautify filmed. Definitely worth watching.

You can't restart humanity with 2 people.

One of the best emotional movies that I have watched. I am fond of watching end of the world movies with great destructions scenes but this one for me is super emotional in terms of the message.

Loved the design, material the rifle was made of, the fact that they could just print broken parts of the ship, those funky helicopters. The story itself was enjoyable if not a bit implausible. It's interesting that the editors felt they could leave the story on earth for such a long tine while the space crew were going through the horrors. I enjoyed it.

I don't know if I liked the movie a lot or if I hated it. I actually teared up for a few minutes when I realized that the little girl was never there all along. Been a long while since a movie made me feel that shitty.

Beautiful movie but a movie about hope when ultimately the outcome is hopeless. Even if the couple and their unborn baby survives, three people can’t remake mankind. If starvation or the elements don’t kill them, inbreeding will considering there’s only 1 man and 1 women. So basically the point is that mankind is beyond hopeless. No matter what we are screwed. But I still enjoyed it. 🤯

The last scene of the movie (the over the credits stuff) reminded me of the last scene in The Graduate. We start with "love conquers all" and then the reality sets in.

The "Arctic facility" is on Ellesmere Island in Canada's north.

I really appreciate your recap, now I don't have to sit through this movie that I thought was "iffy" (at best) from the trailer. You just saved me hours of my life 😁

Well done! And by the way, thank you for being a source of critical thinking and some screaming puns. I hope 2021 is a good one for you. And me. And the folks reading these comments.

*SPOILER ALERT* After Credits Twist: Kyle Chandler was Dr Augustine's High School football coach!

After the English ending credits... there's bird and static noises. This implies birds are alive somewhere on Earth 🌎🌍

Thank you so much for this explanation

Thank you for this ! This is a wonderful way to tell people what the movie is about! I did not understand the movie but now I love the movie thank you very much!

I’m so confused I had to look this up

Presumably dead at this point? His wife said she wants to tell them where they're going before they are evacuated but never does?

Wow I was blown away by this video, thank you!

I have a daughter. I could never leave her; I believe the people in our lives are souls we have karma with. I very much wanted to meet this soul, so much so I believe I had visions of her before she was ever born. It is hard for me to relate to the character Augustine. I can understand his love of the midnight sky, his devotion to science, and his curiosity about other worlds. I love this movie partly because I too, have this special feeling for the night sky right as it turns from midnight to the next day. But Augustine abandoning Iris is an alien concept for me. I love my daughter so much. I don't understand people who can abandon their children, even if they think they can have a better life without them. I suppose human beings are all different, and this makes them both tragic and inspiring in alternate turns. But my daughter is six now. I waited for such a long time to be able to speak to her, and now she is finally old enough to ask the big questions about life. She is so beautiful, and I can see parts of her mother and myself in her. But she is her own person. Our children are not our own; they belong to God, the same as all of us. (I am spiritual, not religious.) Some people treat their children like inconveniences, pets, or a way to save their marriage, if they decide to stay at all. I believe just the opposite, that it is our glory and privilege to be able to guide these bright-eyed souls in their time with us. Some parents think they "made" their kids, but I know they just borrow some bits of clay from their parents so they can have a body for this lifetime. Could there be a higher responsibility, or greater adventure than spending time with your child? It's like having every experience made new again. I wanted to meet her, and now that I have, she completely exceeds my hopes and expectations. I'm sure I've learned more being with her than she has from me. The midnight sky could never compare.

restart a human race in Jupiter's moon with just 2 humans? *ALABAMA HAS JOINED THE CHAT*

Another Easter egg was the movie Kyle Chandler's character was watching. It was the ending of On The Beach. a movie about the end of the world from radiation after a nuclear war.

Great explanation!

Great recap!

this movie was honestly sooo beautiful.

I liked the movie until it got to the end, pretty bleak ending. It would have been nice for the colony ship to show up.I know people like that kind of tragic and sorrowful ending, I like my endings happy or a least partially lol

I watching it right now, I actually didn't feel like to watch it but I listened to Tennessee whiskey from Chris Stapleton and it convinced me

Great review

All I have to say is that the movie broke my heart. My ex worked like that. Sacrificing family for work. That’s ok now though. It’s been 26 years and moving on is a good thing.

Thank you! 👏👏👏!

Haven’t seen it yet so I going to stop right and come back and read the comments when I done lol

I thought the little girl was the ghost of his daughter. I had a "Wait, what?!" moment when I saw him talking to an adult version of Iris. Overall it was an ok film. Could've been better but I enjoyed it more than documentaries on K-Pop stars which I was forced to watch on Christmas day.

yall otta realize when he swam in that water that should of been the end of the movie, no way he survived. plus hes already sick af..

I just got done watching the movie, and while I did like it...alot it has alot of untapped potential. Definitely going to get the book to read as well as I did the same thing with the Martian. To be honest it is a very sad story, but the two who went through re-entry just wanted to die. Sorry if this doesn't really make sense, but I have alot of complicated thoughts and don't know how to make sense of them.

Nice, thx 👍🏾

*¡loved it and wanted to cry - i started thinking of the 2001 film "artificial intelligence" that too was bittersweet!* - 8:58 PM Pacific Standard Time on Thursday, 24 December 2020 leap year

I might misunderstood, but he didn’t abandoned his child: mother was lieing to him about her pregnancy, and backed out from the relationship. Her body, her choice as they say.

I loved it. Made me shed a tear.

Iam not crying you are

It was too obvious from the start that that little girl (Iris) in the weather inappropriate yellow spring dress was a figment of Augustine 's imagination. Her not being able to speak further cemented that in my mind. And when I noticed that the young actress bore a resemblance to Felicity Jones, I kind of put two and two together. The whole early setup with the panicky female scientist looking for her missing daughter did not throw me off the scent. Also the situation involving a younger Augustine being told by his lover that she was not pregnant was a clear indicator that she indeed was. Later on when those two have a reunion and we see him watch her from a far distance tell her (out of view) daughter to get in the car confirmed my suspicions. After all we never got to see the young daughter and Augustine asked his former girlfriend if she ever told her about him. Plus there was no trace of a new man in this ex-girlfriend's life or in that scene to even to suggest that the little girl had a candidate for a father other than Augustine. I think one of two times the film tried to fool us by giving a quick moment in which Iris was not immediately next to Augustine and we were seeing a moment from her perspective. But it was a ruse. Anyway the two hours of screen time did not allow us to care too deeply about Augustine and his post opportunities. I am certain the book did a much better job of that. As a result I ended up liking the film more than loving it. I have a few questions however: 1)What happened to those other vessels Augustine unsuccessfully tried to communicate with ? 2)Did he know Iris was onboard that particular vessel? 3)Didn't Iris say something about some colony that reminded her of Colorado?

If you heard bad things about this movie, well they are all true.

I am going to have to watch this movie several times before I fully understand it. Kind of like Space Odyssey. My comment is about the imagineering that went into this movie. From the six-propeller hovercraft to the redesigned military uniforms. From the interior framing of the spacecraft to the surface of the livable exoworld. The backdrop of this story is so impressive.

There is a scene that I thought you should have mentioned. One of the astronauts is watching a movie with no explication of what he is watching. It is the romantic climax and farewell from the 1959 movie - the great-granddaddy of nuclear war/end of the world genre - On The Beach. It is interesting to me, in that I knew George Clooney just before he became famous, working with him on the episodic television show, where he had a recurring role as Sela Ward’s boyfriend on Sisters. He left to do the pilot of ER, then returned so they could write him out of Sisters. I then went to work on the first season of ER, where I had the opportunity to thank Anthony Edwards for making the last nuclear war/end of the world movie of the Cold War, Miracle Mile. Anthony graciously received my thanks. But George Clooney, who was standing with us - quite strange for George who is a sweetheart of a guy - interupted the moment, saying, “Oh, that thing?”. Anthony smiled and looked down at his feet. But about 5 years later - in 2000 - George produced a live television version of the classic nuclear war/end of the world movie, Fail Safe. I always asked myself if he did this show because of my compliment to Anthony Edwards while on ER. So now, I wonder if George included this scene from On The Beach for the same reason...

Where did everyone evacuate to?? I’m lost lol

Repopulating humanity? Judging by the interaction between Iris and Ade at the end of the movie, they're not going to be having a whole lot of sex - Humanity is doomed😂

Fantastic movie..yes, depressing and a tear jerker but so interesting. I have a new respect for George Clooney's acting.

Just watched the movie. In some way it reminded me of "Gravity." I appreciated the venues of thought provoking ideals. This was a successful movie watching night.

Basically The sequel will be deliverance in space. Hell Yeah!

She end up everything like her father, even without him in her life.

Hey man! Are you going to do Tenet? Waiting to see it from you!

This helps alot, that explains the end when he is talking to Iris he does not mention the little girl being next to him makes sense it was in his mind, I think also at the end he did not tell her she is her father she did not want to confuse her and make her think twice about leaving him behind, Hollywood drama of course in real life when you talk to someone on a radio knowing that you could lose communication forever you would not speak so slow with some many pauses, writers should have had Augustine told her she was her father would have been a better ending.

I thought this was going to be better than this, but in the end it was a big disappointment. I would have liked to know who the injured guy on the plane with all the art work was, not to mention HOW he survived his dip into the below freezing water when he fell through the ice. (I think that's where I lost interest.) On a whole, there were too many gaps in the story for me. I'll try reading the book when I find it. They're usually better than the movie.

It's like these movies are trying to tell us something, especially with covid

I called the kid not really being there since the beginning of the movie but damn, it hurt being right

This movie really made me rethink my life.

What really bothers me about the film is how would those two remaining crew can populate that planet in Jupiter

First Clooney stuck in space, now he is stuck on earth :/

Great review, you explained more than the movie did...

I didn't want to watch this movie originally as I saw it had bad reviews but it was actually a nice watch. I wonder how many other films I've passed up because of supposed bad reviews? It turned out better than I expected tbh.

The two guys who returned to Earth would have added much needed genetic diversity if they had gone back to k23 and taken turns with Iris, not very forward thinking of them

My 1st thought watching this was "That's his daughter on the ship! And the little girl isn't actually there but a representation of his daughter!" .... Not much of a twist come the end lol

I thought that was a very good breakdown and summary of the film.

I don't think the baby belongs to the captain of the ship. It's pretty obvious that she had a fling with the married doctor that decided to jump ship and travel back to Earth. There are so many clues that point to this.

Color me unimpressed with Hollywood Science Fiction films like this. Much like 'Ad Astra' this film was far more about a Parent/Child story than any kind of solidly worked out science fiction. The world building here is clunky, even though the set designs for both ship and station are beautiful. Largely I cannot buy into this "On the Beach" story retread, with its creeping radiation doom. I also cannot find hope in a lame Adam and Eve story on a magical Earthlike moon around Jupiter. I remember watching the 1951 classic "When Worlds Collide", which played with the idea of humanity trying to transplant itself off of Earth. I always wanted to see a modern version of that, as the ship's crew, tools, microfilm libraries, and farm specific livestock were so limited by the clunky technology of the time. I felt a modernized version of the Ark concept could be fun. In some ways I got that dream with the movie "Interstellar", which includes a humanity which has put together a package of technology and samples to enable a reboot option. Per that movie's portrayal, the humans got it right. A similar 'reboot' potential was showcased in Pixar's "Wall-E", where the 'Axiom' recolonizes the Earth in the credits sequence. Probably from stored reserves and onboard factories. Here, with "The Midnight Sky" I find a movie which presents a doomed scenario of false hope. Overall I'd rather watch "The Wandering Earth" again than see this film. It at least had a humanity which chose to fight for survival rather than just give up. Even if the mechanics of it are way over the top, I liked its grandeur. For a George Clooney science fiction film which I do very much like, I'd suggest "Solaris". It is a bit strange, but all of humanity isn't riding on the redemption train with the main characters. It does have a somewhat similar visual look to this film. Sophisticated cool colors and clean looking architecture. For a science fiction film about redemption, I'd offer up the 1981 film "Outland", with Sean Connery. The stakes aren't world changing, but they are at a good scale for a more human centric story. Another good film which does include a redemption arc or two and involves potential global catastrophic consequences is the sequel movie to the classic "2001: A Space Odyssey" called "2010: The Year We Make Contact." It also includes a lot of the kinds of science and well integrated world building I find lacking in some of these modern attempts at science fiction.

The world's wealthiest 1% account for more than twice the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, The top 10% of earners devour 45% of all energy used for land transport, while the poorest 50% of households consume just 10%.

Brilliant movie for the purpose it was for. Quite a few technical errors as well as a bit of unrealistic scenes. But for the most part it really was amazing for George's first film.

4:06 was goood😂😂 really cracked me up