Ad Astra: The Journey Out of Depression
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- čas přidán 18. 03. 2020
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"Farewell to all that lies behind me, and thank you. To the horizon before me, I will be there. I will be there as my feet permit me. As my soul chases the light few can see. I wonder and wander. I will be there."
Every once in a while comes a film that speaks directly to your soul. One that you feel was made for you, and you alone. While it might feel entirely personal, the experience of a deeply felt film can connect us all and reveal our most human qualities. Ad Astra means everything to me, and I hope you can take something away from this video regardless of what you thought of the movie.
"The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown."
A very interesting read on The Overview Effect: www.apa.org/pubs/journals/fea...
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this is literally my favorite movie and NOBODY is talking about it.
I sincerely hope that people will look back at this wrongfully dismissed film in the future and consider it a masterpiece, similar to how we view The Assassination of Jesse James (also starring Brad Pitt!)
popularity tends to be inversely proportional to quality ;)
Very few films ever really explore a man's relationship with his farther, or how people put on a show to others on the outside but feel very different inside. This film however nails both, hugely underated IMO.
@@jupitereye4322 At what point did the director reveal the idealogical core/aspects of the film? I'm just curious and I agree with you.
@@jupitereye4322 I agree brother. There is nothing wrong with "toxic masculinity" and until people realise that, men will suffer.
I think this movie will age better over time, people still dont know how important it is
Just rewatched that movie, I just think that it s amazingly beautifull and sad at the same time. I think that some people like me can really find a connection with the main character. We constantly tell ourselves not to portray emotions, to the point where you don t even think about it. We then try to find very abstract, and complex goals in order to go forward (devoting our live to space exploration in the movie s case) and we end up buried in our work, when in the end, what matters is deep human connection, something a lot of people don't have.
Amazing video.
Yesss ❤️
The reason people hated this movie is because it deals with very mature subjects. The father son allegory, humanities eventual colonisation of space. These themes scare people off because they haven't grown up yet.
I think that, as dumb as it may sound, some people didn't like the movie because they said that we are alone in the universe.
Yeah movies like this are not for everyone. Some of us like actual stories that deal with mature themes. But other people just want to turn their brains off and be whimsically entertained, not have to think about what they are watching.
I mean, I didn't like it because it felt melodramatic and too wide to be deep. I can appreciate the themes presented all I want but if the movie presenting those themes only does less then half the legwork and I have to spend the next 5 or so hours making up things in my head to appreciate the movie, it's just not a good movie.
@@ryuk5673 wtf are those takes? I hope you both are 14 years old otherwise it is just sad
@@cmfrtblynmb02 do u have an actual argument about or are u just here to show us ironically how immature you are. You basically just proved my point.
Blade Runner 2049 is my favourite film of all time along with the original, I love films like this. Ad Astra was incredible, I genuinely can’t understand the hate for it.
I also felt such personal relation to Roy despite us being almost opposites. He’s tough, skilled and able to complete incredibly difficult and groundbreaking work. I can’t do any of those things. But it emphasises these heroes portrayed as incorruptible pillars of perfection, and what everyone should strive to be at all times, are just like us. As obvious as that might seem, it really drives it home well.
exactly...movie was made for humans who aren't afraid to look within. Completely scary for those who rely on all that is without. I was beautifully floored.
Blade Runner 2049 in Dolby theater was a once in a lifetime experience.
blade runner 2049 was actually quite bad, looked nice but lacked any sort of depth
@@Nobody-Nowhere why didn't you like it
I wouldn't say this movie is against space exploration. It's just against disconnecting from one's humanity in the pursuit of knowledge or understanding.
Good point, it’s just using space exploration as a way to make a broader statement about what you said
@@FramesOfEmpathy I hope you guys have read Heart of Darkness, a classic novel, which is what Ad Astra’s plot is based on. It will give you a lot of insight. I know you already understand the themes very well. But you may find it very interesting!
Genuinely, thank you for this video!
Ad astra was one of my favourite movies of last year because it used the space as a stage to tell the story of the human relationships, and not only between father and son, but between self vs expectations, subconscious vs conscious and humanity vs cosmic space. Sadly, I see that most ppl overlooked this movie because many were expecting a hard sci-fi with action scenes or a plot based movie instead of a more introspective narrative that used extensive creative license.
So thank you for analysing this important (if not the core) aspect of the story.
the cinenatopraphy is so beautiful. nothing flashy, not so much color, just simply beautiful.
One of my all time favorites....
Dad Astray.
Ad Astra is truly an underrated gem.
This film made me cry alone in a near empty theater.
One of my favorites
I'm 17 and I just saw this film a few months ago after missing it in cinemas. I absolutely adored it. I aspire to be a director one day and films like Ad Astra and Interstellar are my 2 favourite Space movies ever. I can understand why people would find this film boring to slow but I enjoyed every second of it. I wasn't bored once, constantly in awe and on the edge of my seat when the action kicked in. This film reminded me why I love space so much like how Interstellar did when I was 12. I love this film to the stars and back
If you were 17 when Ad Astra came out and 12 when Interstellar came out, that makes us the same age. Coincidence! 😮
This is going to sound really stupid and might look like I'm trivialising the experience of an astronaut with the comparison, but I think I felt the Overview Effect while playing Elite: Dangerous. I spent 150 hours flying around the galaxy staring at nameless planets before I finally unlocked the permit to visit Sol. When I arrived, it was night time over my home country, and I couldn't see anything, so I parked myself in orbit and sat and waited for dawn.
As I watched the light creep across the globe, I was suddenly overcome with an intense feeling of kinship and attachment to the Earth. I'd never really felt that before, because in my mind, the world was the whole World, and how can you have an emotional attachment to literally everything?
But I had spent one hundred and fifty hours seeing how big and empty the galaxy was, and my frame of reference for what constitutes "everything" had gotten significantly bigger. Now the Earth was this cozy little orb in the corner of the Galaxy that I'd been desperately trying to get home to. It was one bright light in a huge and empty ocean of nothingness - an ocean where I'd felt genuine fear over running out of fuel and getting stranded, or being shot down by pirates. But now I was home, and I felt safe. Seeing Earth from that perspective made me feel protected, and I suddenly got the intense feeling that the Earth also needed protecting.
If a video game's simulation of the Earth could do that to me, I can only imagine the magnitude to which that's amplified when you're actually a real astronaut looking down on the real Earth.
If anyone would like to see what I saw:
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Space games are the best games
The message to his father the 2nd letter where he spoke from his heart was some of the very best acting I've ever seen Brad Pitt do.
This is the most very well put ad astra movie review on CZcams by far
This video is so underrated. Deserves a million more views imo. Thanks for putting this together whoever you are. 👍🏻🌏
Thank you!
A very underappreciated film...excellently done and so well acted, directed, and filmed, and an amazing score. I think it is just too deep and slow for most audiences.
As someone in the middle of a huge battle with depression and anxiety ATM, this perspective changes this movie for me in a huge and personal way. I plan to rewatch this IMMEDIATELY. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and analysis here.
Edit: I’m back to watch it again 🙈
I remember seeing this film back in 2020 at my local cinema. I just saw the poster and it drew me in. I went in completely blind, with no idea about what I was getting myself into, and ended up completely, absolutely adoring the film. The fact that not enough people are talking about it is a disservice to the effort James Gray went through in order to give us such and underrated masterpiece.
I do hope that the film will develop a cult following over time and find its proper audience some time in the future, but man, what a picture.
I sincerely hope so too, the movie is definitely in my top 20 of all time.
I JUST watched this movie. . . It is heavy. It is one of those movies that is really good, but hit home.
I have not seen this movie, but I will after seeing this because it has very deep meaning for me since I have struggled with my own relationship with my father all my life. I think I have the courage to do so now.
This movie shows the meaning of love❤️
Beautiful and cathartic film...will never forget the experience watching it in imax
You put into words why I love this movie! I like how you directly refer to the director's interview and get to the heart of it
Ik alot of people will say they can't understand why people hated this movie, but i can. I love this film, but it is damn depressing, thats the whole point. Its a huge metaphor for male depression, and alot of people dont wanna see that
Thank you for this.
My favourite movie, and wow this video is fantastic. One of the best videos on CZcams, thank you.
3:09 I never noticed that his wife fades from view. Which makes sense.
Didn’t watch this movie until now because of bad reviews… however I went for it and was just blown away by how beautiful and impactful the whole film was it’s truly amazing. I love when Roy finally smiles at the end and he’s able to subdue the depression.
I love what you wrote. So well written.
Great way to cover this movie. We just watched it here and afterward talked for a while about how this movie is so clearly not about space travel, it's about depression. Searched CZcams, and you were the top result with few others discussing the topic. I'm glad you could see the important themes the film covered and I agree!
I think it deals with human loneliness, and more specifically, the child pursuing the parent who does not want them, discovering that he has agency to make his own decisions based on his own moral framework, and that he can love and thrive although he was not loved.
That is beautifully succinct way of wrapping the emotional journey inside this film up.
Never heard of this movie, good video!
I just found your channel and I saw a couple of videos, and they're amazing. thank you for putting so much dedication.
Love it
♥️
beautiful made interpretation, thank you so much.
Amazing video!
exceptional video well done
Great take on the film. Thank you
Regarding some of the complaints of the movie’s science, I felt like the movie isn’t meant to be viewed literally at all. Just a representation of the struggle we all deal with our parents - communication, and learning to stop chasing their love or approval, instead learning to be one’s own man, cutting ties with them in a sense, like the tether between Roy and his dad floating, like an umbilical cord, resulting in one’s second birth, so to speak.
My only complaint is that its themes are often spelled out too clearly through the voiceover.
Loved this..absolutely brilliant thank you
Thanks for watching!
Through hardships, to the stars.
Lol I couldn't grasp why I related to this movie so much, but you've made me understand why...Thank you...
That's beautiful 😭
This film really made me think afterwards
This movie is incredible. Watched it on a plane when it came out. Blew my mind
Great vid. Hadn't thought about the film with this level of depth, but I agree that its got big tree of life vibes
I have watched many a video on this film, and I have read way more comments on them. And finally I found another person who had the same association than me. Ad Astra has been much compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey, which makes sense in terms of style; it has been much compared to Apocalypse Now, which makes sense in terms of plot structure and mission statement; but to me, story topic, character(s), focus and tone of narration are most important, style is just a shell or skin or a means of narration, and plot is just the skeleton that the real living, breathing, meaningful meat is being put on, so the essence of Ad Astra for me is most closely related to that of The Tree of Life: The process of questioning "What made me become the person I am, (how) does this define me, how do I feel about this, what can and should I do about this now, where do I want to go from here?"
I have liked the movie since I saw it, and I don't know why.
At first I thought it's because its cinematography, or I simply like the depression, slow style movie.
Now I realize why I like it and why it stays in my heart for such a long time.
thank you.
It be under-appreciated in its time but my words, as the years pass, this film will be remembered as a classic.
Bro, the Neptune sequence was the best imo. The blue was so amazing. Seeing how far away from earth you are, all alone, and then to see him in space right next to Neptune with nothing but vast space all around him. It gave me a little anxiety, but it also gave me another feeling I can't explain. On one hand I would LOVE to go to space and explore, but on the other hand, fuck that lol. It was so surreal, I guess.
I loved ad astra, to the point of spending hours editing a video about it that no one will see, but it doesn't matter cus the films incredible
What keeps you from sharing your video about it?
@@elevenseven-yq4vu I've shared it around and it got a decent amount of views, just didn't want to be one of those annoying self promo accounts
@@SixffFilms Cool. I will check your account for it.
I thought that this movie was about "The Heart of Darkness" much more than Odessey. I felt like this was Apocalypse Now in Space
Thank you so so so much for this video. The sequence from 5:30 is magnificent...
PS: if you can share the song that plays from that point on I would be eternally grateful
Andre Green speaks about identifying with the negative, that which is not there. He coined the "dead mother complex".
What is meant by the "dead mother complex", what is its concept?
Agree. Your opinion seems right. It was obvious from the beginning. The New Frontier is always Human Interconnectivity. Praise G-d
I was the only one of my class who loved this movie. All others found it trash. For me, its so powerfull with characters, music and pictures. Its gigantic and fantastic, but at the same time sad and unreachable for humanity. One of the best films of all time
Didn't know this would be so damn good. But it changed my mind & outlook on life altogether ❤️ absolutely loved it & the video you made too.. It is filled with deep profound thoughts and longing to be understood in your self consciousness ❤️
Its literally my favorite movie ❤️ I wished that more people watched it! Thank you got making this video on it, love you ❤️
I found my people
Can I ask who is the British person who starts talking at 5:38. I feel like I've heard this talk but I can't remember where.
Your videos are great! I can't wait to watch more :)
It's Guy Reid who created the short titled Overview
BEAUTIFUL!!
why have you stopped making videos?
Hey there! Where did you find the interview from 6:00 and 7:36? i want to here more of it. Thanks!
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There is something more and less about this movie. It's a child who's parent hurt, broke and abandoned them. You search for them. You find them and the awful things they have done. If you're lucky you can use the pain as propellant to thrust you back into the world. I am so disappointed in the lack of interpretation of this movie.
I will be honest, I did not really like the movie. Now I'm not really sure why i disliked it, but it just did not connect with me. After watching your essay I think I'm going to watch it again. Thank you for this great video!
I'd love to hear what you think when you rewatch it!
@@FramesOfEmpathy So I rewatched it and I do appreciate it much more now. I feel like the visuals, the score and the plot meshed so much better this time. Everything seemed more cohesive.
However, I still feel like the movie did not manage to present the main ideas of human connection and unity or depression in a impactful manner, or at least not in a way that would create that feeling in me. In a way it felt unexpressive or not expressive enough, unlike your video. Maybe I'm just not able to connect to the message of the movie as of yet. Regardless, it still has many qualities that make it great.
Brad pitt left him there
The Marvelization of cinema is a curse. Any movie without a gag or a joke every 10 seconds is now boring, basically TikTok in movie form. People didn't like this movie because they went in and expected a Marvel movie set in space but were met with a great movie with a deeper hidden meaning. They missed the beauty of the movie shown right in front of them. The complex relationship between a father and a son who always tried to connect with his father by trying to be just like him but couldn't. I guess every son with a complex relationship with their father can relate to this. A constant search for love and validation from your father who never gives it.