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George Clooney for “embracing” their personal narratives in his Netflix sci-fi drama
The Midnight Sky.
In the film, Jones plays Sully, an expectant mother and astronaut on a mission in space. Jones, who was pregnant during the filming of the project, tells ABC Audio that it was “very cool of Clooney” to not “CGI [her] bump” out of his film.
“[He] just made it a much more truthful experience to embrace what was actually happening,” she says, noting that Clooney thought it was “much more interesting to embrace [her] pregnancy, and not run away from it.”
“And [to] make it part of the story,” she continues. “And so, that definitely made my life much easier rather than… walking around hoping no one notices that I’m pregnant.”
In George Clooney s
The Midnight Sky, the journey across Arctic s snowy expanse literalises a hero s self-redemption. A grizzled old scientist treks through an icy wasteland to contact a crew of astronauts. He must prevent them from returning to an Earth destroyed by a mysterious catastrophe.
Clooney s imposing vision of a dying world brings to mind Cormac McCarthy’s
The Road. Only, if McCarthy explored the depths of human nature, Clooney barely scratches the surface. Where films like
Solaris and
The Midnight Sky gets stuck in shallow soap opera.
So his adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton s novel plays too much like a vanilla sci-fi drama with literary aspirations.
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Space movies are usually about hope. Usually, if a character heads off into the harsh vacuum of space, it’s because they’re exploring, or learning, making contact with aliens, or transforming into StarBabies, or trying to create a far-flung future for humanity. Because of that, I find it fascinating that
The Midnight Sky, an adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel,
Good Morning, Midnight, becomes a rare example of a bleak space movie. It’s an interesting, and often moving, addition to the space movie canon that never quite figures out what it wants to be.
The book is a quiet meditation on family, loneliness, and the sort of choices that people make without fully realizing that they’re defining their lives. It has a couple of plot twists that I thought worked pretty well, because Brooks-Dalton was able to build states of mind, sudden reveals, and emotional epiphanies in ways that novels are uniquely equipped to do. I was intrigued to see how the mo
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Itâs another bad day in space, with some complications on Earth making things even more perilous, as Netflixâs
The Midnight Sky sees George Clooney trying to warn a crew of astronauts away from returning to Earth. To be fair, things are in pretty rough shape in this sci-fi film thatâs made its debut on the streaming service, and with one particularly big twist in the works, the stakes are even greater. Which means itâs time to warn you, the reader, that weâre about to get pretty deep into