This is a technically well made short film on a micro budget , to showcase the talents of those involved for further work I imagine.
Sadly the story is unoriginal, slow and in may ways ludicrous. It's overtly a homage to HAL in 2001... and many films that involve the Desert as an 'alien' environment- the desert of isolation during space flight through an almost desolate universe, and the shifting landscape of the future, drained to its smallest components. However none of that is explored to any depth, and the shallow fantasy of the tale is obscured at the end by overwhelming music that drowns out the cliched 'New Home' dialogue.
Science Fiction was a literature of IDEAS, and this short film doesn't really have any.
The 'science' is hilariously bad and hasn't really been considered, he may as well be on a boat in the ocean in the 1400's.
The worst moment is the exposition scene when hes talking to his female colleague. It begins all chatty and trivial, and then after a couple of minutes she conveys an urgent warning, a warning only someone with a cognitively decomposing mind would not convey as a high priority, and it's all relayed among a very bad blubbery piece of acting.
The actual NASA space missions are far greater fictions than most folk imagine. And one of the discrepancies of reason they use, and this film copies without though, is that 'married' people with families are at all suitable for space faring missions.
In fact, that status would negate the profession if it was at all realist from a military or scientific endeavour- for obvious reasons.
Anyways, almost everyone involved in this film should go on to bigger and better things.
Let's just hope they have a decent story next time.
