Exceptional commentary piece paired with compelling performances!

Rating: 9/10 (3 October 2017)

Acting: 20/20 Writing: 36/40 Directing/Editing/Production/Etc: 37/40
Overall: 93/100 A
Review: As with many space movies, there are quite a few unrealistic plot holes in the script but aside from those few, the movie is pretty accurate.
All of the cast in this film delivered compelling performances, playing their roles perfectly.
This film is not your typical pop film (nor a typical sci-fi film as it's more of a romantic-drama-sci-fi), every little nuance shows a deeper meaning and weaves together a great analogy of our roles in nature.
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Michael Sheen does an exceptional job as the bartender, especially the part where he "spazzes out" when presented with contradictory "facts" as he knows them to be. The writing and concept behind this character, as an android bartender, is very well done. ("Jim, these are not robot questions.")
There are a couple of cool allusions in this film, such as The Time Machine, The Shining, Facebook and Sleeping Beauty.
This movie shows the value of human companionship as well as romance - even for a man.
This movie had a lot of interesting choices and points regarding gender: When Aurora first gets a meal and sees what Jim has been stuck eating this whole time, this is an allusion to the way a bachelor eats before a woman comes into his life and starts to cook for him (traditionally), leading to better and healthier meals for him. Jim as a mechanic, represents men and the old world, and the desire to feel "necessary". With technology replacing workers and pushes for women replacing men in the workplace (to fulfill 50/50 gender quotas) - as well as the fact that men can't give birth - men in Western society are struggling to find their value/role in the world. Our modern Western society is very sexist against men and constantly putting them down as "old-timey", unnecessary and overall "not good enough". Our society treats men very unjustly, constantly putting women's feelings and preferences first, while condemning men simply for being men (aka toxic masculinity). Men are people too and just like women, they like to feel valued in society. Love was enough for Jim to be content but not for Aurora, as she was still having a lot of anxiety about their situation after they became romantically involved. Just like humanity works best when men and women are cooperating instead of competing, the two passengers were able to save the ship and everyone on it (aside from the already deceased Chief) when they were cooperating and working together as a team.
Aurora had everything she could've asked for, yet it wasn't good enough just because Jim woke her up instead of her accidentally waking up. She had romance and a reliable, loving, trustworthy mate and she still had her career as a writer for audiences of the future to read her once-in-a-lifetime story, even though it wasn't the exact one that she had originally planned for. She took what she had for granted, more focused on what could/should be, rather than what was. She couldn't see the forest for the trees.
After all of the crap that Aurora gave Jim for waking her up early, she had the chance to "erase this mistake" yet she chose not to. In the end, she chose the life that Jim had chosen for her as well. So she gave him hell for nothing. This is very representative of how if many modern women today would focus on everything they do have instead of what they don't have, they would realize that they have a lot to be grateful and happy for. Western women are the most spoiled women on Earth yet they often fail to see that.
And one of the most important overall metaphors from this film revolved around nature:
Nature will not be controlled forever.
There was a point made several times in this film about the "fact that the pods can't possibly defect", yet we know that's not a fact as somehow, someway, Jim's pod did defect - even though it was the 1st time "ever". This was very important because it was very symbolic of our modern society and the everyday things we take for granted - especially modern women who would choose "modern society" over "nature's society" almost every single time (since they benefit from this modern society even more than men do).
To this point as well, nature always finds a way to create life; It's why human beings are here. No matter how many extinction periods have occurred here on Earth and wiped out entire species at a time, nature always finds a way to give new life a chance. This was represented by the planting of nature that Jim did all around the information room (especially at the end) but also by both of Jim and Aurora's urge to not be alone, as many human beings feel this way - not in just a romantic sense but in an overall sense (which is why we, humans, often try to create some kind of society).
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Overall this film was an exceptional commentary piece paired with compelling performances; Absolutely worth watching!