Article Review 3

Leo Biagi 

Mr Mitchel 

Film Making

03/09/20

The article I reviewed was The Problem With Science Fiction Films. In the article the author keeps saying how science fiction films lack in one certain area of story telling and that is  that science fictions films focus mostly on story, plot, creativity and, visuals yet lack in emotions and characters. The author uses ad astra and interstellar as an example of movies that suffer form this. While I have not seen ad astra I have seen interstellar and I strongly disagree the authors statement. Interstellar not only has and incredible score, visuals, story, concept, and actors but it also has great themes and characters. Matthew Maconihay gave and excellent performance and the themes of the film being sacrifice, family, and survival are shown well through the characters and visuals. While this film does lack a bit at the end when they talk about love being the fifth dimension and the story starts to loss the more science aspect of it. It still has really good themes and an interesting story to tell. While the author may a have a small point with ad astra and Interstellar I think he is very wrong by saying this applies to all aspects of science fiction. I bring up the movie Blade Runner which is probably one of the best Science Fiction films of all time. Some may say Star Wars is the best but that is Fantasy not Science fiction. Blade Runner has a lot of aspects that make it an incredible noir science fiction movie it also has a lot of aspects that make it the one of the best movies every and help discredit the authors statement. Blade Runners visuals such as effects and cinematography are  incredible and beautiful yet expected from most modern Science Fiction films. This movie also does a great job with the world it has created. The writer and production design made this world modern yet old and dirty, large yet cramped, over populated but at the same time desolate. This provides more to the story as we are allowed the focus on the main character and show how alone he feels. While the article says Science Fiction movies are about visuals and creative story yet not much in emotion and themes, blade runner completely discredits this. The whole movie is based around what you as an audience member are supposed to feel. The movie explores the idea of what it means to be human and what makes people unique. The first scene of the movie makes you feel nothing and makes you confused on what you are supposed to take away or feel about the scene just like the replicants. Harrison Fords character constantly is asking himself what makes him more human that the replicants and what makes the replicants so human. The themes present in this film is what drives the movie. Other science fiction story’s also are similar to this by focusing most on themes as well as story and visuals which is why I completely disagree with the articles statement.