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Aniara

November 18, 2019 Leave a Comment

Aniara is a Swedish-Danish film from 2018 (based on a poem written in 1956) about the passengers of the space ship Aniara, which leaves behind a doomed Earth and heads for Mars.

Crowd of people on pristine Aniara

A cruise ship in space

Plot Summary

The Aniara collides with space debris early in its voyage, losing all its fuel and getting knocked off course. A simple three week trip into a…well, a lot longer than that.

Captain speaking

The captain informs the passengers about their situation

As time passes, the passengers start losing more and more of their amenities; the food runs out early on and everyone has to subsist on algae. The Mima, an artificial intelligence that lets people get visions of nature (sort of like a mental holodeck), “dies” from overuse.

Nature vision

A Mima vision

Sanity starts slipping among the passengers – depression and a vast number of suicides follow. Oh, and now there’s a cult where people get together to have orgies.

Woman with facepaint lying down

Cult ceremony (orgy) in progress

But wait, there’s hope! The Aniara crew find what appears to be a probe with fuel they can take and get back on course to Mars.

Aniara exterior

Space is lonely and terrifying

They get the probe but it turns out it’s not what they think it is. In fact, they have no idea what it is and can’t do anything with it. Never mind. No hope. Everyone dies, the end.

Aniara starting to get crummy

Aniara in the middle of the film (it gets a lot worse than this!)

Thoughts

When I started this, I figured it was going to be The Poseidon Adventure in space, not something nihilistic and bleak along the lines of a dreary dystopian film. It’s like a constant punch in the stomach. It’s a film that loves to tease you with nice things and then takes them all away. But it’s this harshness that makes it so memorable.

The Mimarobe

Our viewpoint character, the Mimarobe (manager of the Mima system)

The main actress, who plays a member of Aniara’s crew, does a good job of portraying a character who struggles to do her best to keep morale high as the unending hardships gradually chip away at her. By the end of the film, after suffering an immense loss, we see her become a shell of her former self and it’s just plain sad.

People lying on the floor

Aniara’s passengers using the Mima

I’m glad I watched this, and it’s a well done film with an environmental message I appreciate. It certainly stuck with me for days afterward, but I wouldn’t want to see it again.

Rating

4 out of 5 eggs rating

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Decade: 2010s Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged: live action, sci-fi

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