My Favorite Martian

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2016)

Great Movie! Matt Damon does an excellent job portraying a stranded astronaut. There was a lot of realism that I liked in this movie. The movie has one basic mantra; how do I solve the next problem to stay alive. The obvious items are food and water, then the elements, motion, and communication. Meanwhile, NASA is trying to decide the worth of a single life. Save him by putting others at risk or let him fend for himself, which will mean certain death, but will minimize any loss? The drama of things going badly for Matt on Mars is pretty spectacular. At one point he nearly blows himself up, but at each point he just brushes himself off and starts with a new problem to solve in order to get home. I think it is a metaphor for life that we tend to miss. One of the lines from the movie is, "you solve one problem then the next. If you solve enough problems, you get to come home." I think if we took our own lives the same way, maybe more people would be better off. Solve a problem, then solve another, if you solve enough problems in your life, then you get to have the life that you want.