The Midnight Sky: Too tedious to thrill
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The Midnight Sky; Cast: George Clooney, Ethan Peck, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demian Bichir, Kyle Chandler, Caoilinn Springall; Direction: George Clooney; Direction: and 1/2 (two and a half stars)BY VINAYAK CHAKRAVORTY
George Clooney s new film is fascinating for the ominous mood it conveys visually. Set against the aftermath of a global catastrophe, the sci-fi drama has poignant core, too. You spot profound intent in storytelling, and the comment it sets out to impart is an urgent one.
Earth is dying, this much we know, and watching as civilization scrambles to find some kind of escape in George Clooney’s
The Midnight Sky is both hard to digest and a beautiful feat of storytelling. Separated into two storylines one of Augustine (Clooney) stuck, isolated, on Earth, and that of a crew coming back from trying to find a planet for humanity to survive on the film is a look at the struggle of survival and the relationships we’re willing to sacrifice that for.
Augustine, a scientist, decides to stay behind at his arctic station, not evacuating with the rest of the families and crew there, alone in a snow-filled place that is, until he finds a young girl named Iris (Caoilinn Springall) and is suddenly determined to get them out of there.