Sweeping shots of Martian landscape add to the film’s isolated feeling. Unlike Gravity, which relied intensely on its cramped, compressed settings and the vastness of space to produce feelings of claustrophobia and isolation, The Martian takes the opposite approach.įrom the film’s sweeping shots of martian landscape to the abandoned machines and structure and the many struggles Watney faces on his survivalist journey, there is no question that the character is utterly alone. That said, the film does not limit itself simply to these conventions. The Martian’s focus on Watney’s struggle to survive on the alien planet evokes a sort of “man versus nature” feeling that many films within the space-travel genre aim to capture.
In fact this original impression is what makes it so easy to compare the film to Gravity. However the environment on Mars proves not at all hospitable, and getting back home is not quite as easy as Watney planned.įrom this plot description, The Martian comes across as a sort of scientific survival drama. In an attempt to survive, he journeys to an artificial habitat that his crew had been constructing and plans to grow enough food to holdout until someone eventually returns for him, which could take as long as three years. With no means of communication, he has no choice but to sit and wait, hoping for potential rescue.
After the expedition faces an intense storm, much of the crew abandons the planet to return safely to Earth. The Martian tells the story of one Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut aboard a manned mission to Mars. But how does Scott’s film manage to stack up? Indeed director Ridley Scott’s recent space-survival film (based on Andy Weir’s novel of the same name) has more elements in common with 2013’s Gravity than anything else: A lone character fights to survive in the depths of space with his odds of survival dwindling by the minute.Ĭomparisons between these various space films will be inevitable. Matt Damon gets abandoned in space again as NASA astronaut Mark Watney in The Martian.īut jokes aside, comparing The Martian to Interstellar wouldn’t be entirely accurate.
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