Love (2011)

Boring

Absolutely Brilliant!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Maybe in 2039 an ISS will have gravity but I doubt that. I gave it a 5 as it was thought provoking but I don't know if he was seeing things in the end or if it was an explanation for everything before. On the other hand I have not written a review for ages so it did get to me and I think it should be seen by a wider audience and deserves better.

You know you're in for a thoughtful, challenging film when not one, but at least TWO of the reviews here are titled "Boring, boring, boring". But enough about you, rapier-witted viewer; what did you think of the film?This is an independent effort filmed without commercial backing, in the backyard of the producer's parents. This fact will amaze you when you see it. "Love" is one of those indies that reminds you that filmmaking isn't dead. (Just not profitable, in a world of boring viewers.) The parallels to 2001: A Space Odyssey (another "boring, boring, boring" film) are striking, right down to the fact that the leading men share an uncanny resemblance. In "Love", however, the antagonist is not a virus-infected computer, but the hero's own mind. Anyway, if you want to see what you can do with little money, a high concept, a talented actor (who holds down most of the movie all by himself; think "All Is Lost" -- yet another boring movie), and sheer grit, then give this a spin. It's an astonishing film.

It is a movie which tries to raise awareness of how strong but also sensitive human connections are and the fact that love is what keeps us alive, giving us strength to carry on. It presents an astronaut who suddenly loses contact with earth and from that moment on, a very tough struggle for mental sanity and survival begins. We're shown a lot of his memories, his thoughts and eventually some strange links he makes as a result of a mysterious find aboard his ship. Frankly, although I did find the beginning interesting, the whole movie started to fall abruptly towards boredom and it stayed there until the end. They had a great idea but they didn't know what to do with it. A lot of ambiguous events and unexplained phenomenon disappointed me as I had greater expectations in terms of story. I was surprised by its superb effects but they couldn't make up for a plot which leaves the impression that it is unfinished. I think that instead of prolonging some scenes which seemed to take forever (pointlessly), they should have done some explaining at least at the finale and not leave it as vague as it is, forcing everyone to guess and struggle to understand what they were trying to say.They've made their point with the main idea but the art is in the details and that's where this movie fails. It's a shame because it could have been a much better film for everybody to enjoy.

First time director William Eubank made this very low budget feature that stars Gunner Wright as an astronaut stranded on a space station orbiting earth.The film starts during the American civil war where a soldier discovers something, maybe remnants of a spacecraft. We also have excerpts of various interviews as the film progresses, a device that breaks up the monotony of the sole cast member in the space station.It is also serves a back-story of an ark that crash landed during the civil war era USA and it seems to have interviewed various people.The main story though is the astronaut who is left isolated after he loses communication with mission control. It seems some incident has happened on earth and it looks like he is on his own and maybe the only human alive.The astronaut slowly disintegrates with his lack of contact with another person and left wondering what has happened on earth. He has a yearning to connect, to connect with someone else hence the film title, Love.The low budget of Love and the fact that he has the solo cast member in space plus a computer voice reminds you of Moon with the space station aesthetics giving you the visual reminder of 2001: A Space Odyssey.Conceptually I was impressed with the film even though the film is rather cloudy and ambiguous and I do not pretend that I understood it all.What the director has done with the minuscule budget is breathtaking and has to be applauded. Apparently, the space station was constructed in Eubank's parents yard.