Realistic NASA propaganda

Rating: 4/10 (9 October 2015)

Talking about a realistic film...
When a mission in Mars goes wrong, the astronaut crew hurriedly departs from the planet. A crew member (Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon) has an accident and is left behind. He is presumed dead by everyone. NASA issues a statement about it, while the crew is on its way back. Everything's OK up to this point.
When it is revealed to NASA that Mark Watney is alive, the organization has two options:
1) Let the world know they mistakenly left an astronaut alone in Mars (gain bad publicity) and be forced to launch a multimillion rescue mission with high probability of failure (NASA's budget and reputation at stake). And all these, just for one man.
2) Silence the employee's who know about it (by any means possible) and let Mark Watney die. Nobody will ever know, hence NASA doesn't get bad publicity and saves hundred millions of dollars (to say the least).
Guess what... They went for #1! And the Chinese helped them too! Now, this is what I call PROPAGANDA.
In addition, the film suffers from an extremely bad sense of humour. I honestly found the "disco" cue pathetic, but I guess it's a matter of personal taste.
Don't get me wrong, I actually enjoyed this movie. It has great cinematography (not Interstellar standards but still commendable) and overall it is good fun, but obviously it can't be taken seriously.