La paradoja de Antares

I stumbled across this film by chance on Prime Video, and I couldn't be happier I did. As someone who loved "Contact" back in the day, the idea of a story about extraterrestrial contact through a radio antenna immediately caught my attention-made even more intriguing by the fact that it's a Catalan/Spanish production, since that kind of film isn't usually made here.

The story follows a determined, unyielding scientist woman who finds herself living through both one of humanity's greatest milestones-the discovery that we're not alone in the universe-and one of the darkest days of her own life.

What makes the film so gripping is the combination of pressures weighing her down: a violent storm that threatens the stability of the radio telescope, the heavy burden of personal and family struggles that push her to the edge of despair, and the mistrust of her peers, who dismiss her as reckless or hysterical instead of valuing her contributions.

All of this drives her to desperate choices, sparking serious clashes with her colleagues and superiors while alienating her closest family. In the end, the film's central paradox isn't really about whether we're alone in the cosmos, but whether there's any point in knowing that truth if we choose loneliness in our own lives. It boils down to the tension between sacrificing family and personal life for the sake of discovery and progress, or giving it all up in order to stay close to the people we love.

For me, it's an easy 9/10. As Luis Tinoco's debut as writer, director, and cinematographer, the result is nothing short of outstanding-an achievement worthy of real admiration.

Did you like Contact? (Book or film).

Did you understand and (above all!!) *liked* the end of 2001 film?

If you FELT something greater than yourself when reading/watching them, an amusement of standing at the door of other world of a size and complexity you can't imagine, if you can feel the thrill and awe of getting closer to a creature that evolved millions years before you...

...then this film is for you.

And if not, please watch another kind of film, but don't criticize this one. Don't you think we shouldn't criticize what we don't like, or understand? For example, imagine you don't know how to play chess, and besides you don't like it... Would you criticize it?

The worst movie I've seen in my life. I rate it with a 1 because it won't allow me to rate it with less but it doesn't even deserves to be considered cinema. Fake dichotomies, absolute lack of motivation for basically anything that happens, forced and uninteresting and treating the viewer like they are teaching an important philosophical lesson we would otherwise miss, so lame it can't even be considered pretentious. I have never felt so angry with a movie. I don't think anyone with a minimum of intelligence, sensibility and proprioception can consider this anything other than pure trash. Avoid this movie at all costs.