Europa Report

[lemonski]

Originally Posted by jblank

Really? See, it seemed to me like they treated almost everything that unexpectedly happened with no real emotion. They treated the

[Show spoiler]life discovery

as no big deal (to me at least), they treated the

[Show spoiler]death of Copley's character

as relatively insignificant. I guess I looked at it this way, this is a film that deals with two events that are

[Show spoiler]truly human achievements and the discovery of life and the fact that we can get a ship out to Europa, far exceeding our furthest travel before, are so trivialized and presented with such little emotion or fanfare,

that it is funny.

See, I liked the way that their amazement was more subdued than you might see in other sci-fi films, firstly because it's hard to pull off convincingly for an actor; and secondly because they'd been on a spaceship for such a long time, you could see when

[Show spoiler] they lost comunication with Earth, their enhusiasm for the mission had clearly waned

. I thought that part of it worked really well. The other thing I liked was the reaction by the female astronaut that

[Show spoiler] went for a walk out onto the ice, how her common sense got taken over by a kind of mania to discover things