The Martian
is Mark Watney an astronaut left behind on Mars with meager resources.
He has to solve many problems of human survival on another world. He
has to breathe air, but the atmosphere on Mars is very thin. He needs
water, but accessible drinking water on Mars comes from biological
processes he has to maintain. He needs food, enough to last until
rescue arrives from Earth. Of course, Mars won't cooperate with plans
and things go south, things explode and Mark Watney makes mistakes.
What
strikes me
about The Martian is they didn't turn this into a drama about
science. Mark Watney dances around, the script is light and the
relationship between NASA employees and the astronauts were down to
earth. There were running jokes about mission commander's taste in
music (disco) and the bull* is present in the conversation. I guess
the astronauts weren't gods after all.
The movie didn't
depart from the book by Peter Weir. All the science are intact even
the NASA speak.The book has a lot of fans, me included.
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