The Martian

My sister loves cinema and she is always watching all kinds of films of all ages. She knows a lot about the actors and actresses, about the directors and even, about the scriptwriters!!! Who else know who the scriptwiter of a film is? It's incredible...we can say that she is a "cinema geek" (but with all the love). For this reason, she is always telling me which films I should see or I should know about, I mean, the typical best ones of all the story of the cinema and also, which films I shouldn't see because they are “bad”.  

As you can imagine, we always have quarrellings and problems for decided what movie watch on Saturday's night and even, for decided which TV series watch: we have very different likes and it's very difficult to reach an agreement. Most of the time we end each one with a different laptop in different rooms seeing different things... Anyway, I also have to say that sometimes (only sometimes) I listen to my sister and I don't regret. For example, I have accompanied her to the cinema several times and I have to say that she knows to choose the film: I love "Relatos Salvajes", "The Sniper" and especially, the last one that we have seen: "The Martian". 

The Martian is an American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and based upon the book with the same name of the writer Andy Weir. The main character is starring by Matt Damon and there also appear great actors and actresses such as Jessica Chastain, Kate Maran or Michael Peña. 

The plot is the next: in the year 2035 the crew of Ares III, a manned mission to Mars, has established a temporary base on the planet where they have to stay for some time while they study the planet’s surface. However, the crew is forced to abandon the base to escape a massive Martian storm and while they are evacuating, one of the astronauts is lost and the crew left him because it seems that he's dead, but he has survived. Now he is alone in Mars and nobody know that he is alive. Although at first he thought that he would die in the planet then, he realize that he can't give up and with his botanical and technological knowledges and also, with a lot of humor, he manage to solve his mains problems: the food and the water and also, contact with the NASA for his rescue plan. 

One of the things that I most like is the way that he solve his problems I mean, he is able to “create” an orchid on Mars for plant potatoes "in a planet where nothing grows" as he said, he is able to “make” water, he invents a set of words to communicate with the NASA and, even so the problems and concerns, he have time for joking!

I really enjoy this film and it's weird because I'm not very kind of science fiction films but I think that this movie is different, I mean, it's not hard-boiled science fiction film because there also are dramatic scenes and others that differentiate this film from the genre. Another think that I like of this film, as I have already said, is the humor, the irony and sarcasm of the astronaut that makes the story very entertaining and wonderful, a thing that seemed to be impossible in a film where a character is alone in a planet!

I would like to end up with a funny fact and is that thre are a number of films like the onethta I've just commend, "Salvar al Soldado Ryan" or "Interstellar" where Matt Damond has to be rescued.