Robinson Crusoe in interstellar era

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2019)

In this movie Matt Damon goes to be alone of new Robinson Crusoe: after an accident during a mission, he remains on Mars and their colleagues think he's dead. Instead, he has to try to live on Mars and to invent solutions to survive using what he finds. Fortunately he's a botanic scientist and manages to create crops and to eat potatoes.
This interesting idea open to a reflection on techniques: human being is configured as the technological being, and it's work is creation of artificial stuff. The fact that Mars is inhospitable, makes this process a sort of foundation, a sort of creation of a new civilization that is born from human faith on technological world.
This interesting reflection on relation between man, techniques and nature (but with a too clear positivism), however, is not developed with the deepening that I would love to see: beyond a lot of infodumps, there's a no-problematized condition of man in a terrible desert. He's activity is not quite put in dialogue with fear of death and desperation and the final is too easy. In conclusion, for me is a good movie, but if it was thought with a bigger consideration of risks and madness, it would has been better.