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PASSENGERS Movie

2016

(7 out of 10)
Avventura (Drammatico|Fantascienza|Sentimentale)
1 h 56 min - 116 min
Directed by Morten Tyldum

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	Jennifer Lawrence
	Chris Pratt
	Michael Sheen
	Laurence Fishburne

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A bordo della nave stellare Avalon si sta compiendo la più grande migrazione di massa dalla Terra verso una colonia tutta da costruire ed abitare, su un nuovo pianeta, Homestead II. Cinquemila persone viaggiano addormentate in capsule all'avanguardia. Durante lo scontro con un meteorite, però, la nave riporta un incidente imprevisto e una capsula si sblocca. Jim si sveglia, così, con novanta anni di anticipo sulla data prevista. Poi è la volta di Aurora. Soli, senza alcuna possibilità di tornare indietro, i due sono condannati a finire la loro vita sulla Avalon. Ma la nave va in avaria e a rischiare la vita ora sono molti di più. Le coordinate spaziali di Passengers sembrano situarsi da qualche parte tra Wall-E e Gravity, in un luogo in cui il tempo ha compiuto il suo giro e il futuro è un ritorno alla coppia adamitica e ripone la sua nuova speranza in una fogliolina, emblema della superiorità dell'organico, per quanto fragile e mortale, sull'inanimato. Chi segue questa rotta troverà un film confezionato per non scontentare alcuno, e destinato, dunque, a non entusiasmare nessuno. Noiosetto come una crociera extra lusso una volta che si sono già esplorati e sperimentati tutti gli ambienti, questo film non riesce a mantenere il livello d'interesse destato dal primo colpo di scena (prevedibile ma comunque intrigante, un bell'interrogativo morale) e deve aggrapparsi agli appigli offerti dai luoghi comuni del genere, per riprendere l'afflato filosofico solo nel finale, in maniera ben più sbrigativa e superficiale. C'è però un'altra strada per arrivare alla stessa meta, che incrocia Titanic con un romanzo rosa e scopre le carte in partenza: in Passengers la fantascienza è un fondale, un'ambientazione esotica, quel che conta è il romance tra il meccanico di terza classe e la scrittrice newyorkese che si è imbarcata per tentare il colpaccio editoriale, la storia d'amore tra Chris Pratt, il duro che non teme i sentimenti, e Jennifer Lawrence, l'icona sexy dall'aumentata forza di resistenza. Nonostante le prodezze tecniche e la bellezza sporadica ma reale di certe scene, come quella della mancanza di gravità nella piscina, il film di Tyldum va preso col sorriso sulle labbra, raccomandando occhi e cervello alla leggerezza. Altrimenti, troppi sono i punti che non tornano e a dir poco ridicoli appaiono i costumi e gli ambienti. Meglio vedere la nave-prigione come una metafora del matrimonio, con le sue abitudini e i suoi dubbi amletici, gli scherzi del destino e la possibilità salvavita di darsi al giardinaggio.

At two points while Arthur is pouring Jim a drink from a whisky bottle a pink UK Excise sticker is clearly visible on the side of the bottle. <br>------------------------<br><br>With an engine able to provide constant thrust and bringing a ship up to 50% of the speed of light, there would be no need for a "slingshot" manoeuvre around a star. <br>------------------------<br><br>The "slingshot" around Arcturus isn't present on the holographic map showing the entire journey. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Jim first puts on his spacesuit and steps out of the airlock, a tether attaches itself to his suit. But during his short walk to the edge of the platform, the tether disappears, only to reappear again when he stops to survey the cosmos. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Aurora and Jim take their first space walk together during the first date, the tether to their suits momentarily disappears when viewing them from behind as they stand on the ledge viewing the cosmos. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Aurora is trapped in the water bubble, she appears to be unable to swim out of it. Even in zero gravity Newtons third law of action equaling reaction still applies. Pushing water backwards (through swimming movements) would easily push her forward to the surface and out of the bubble. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the ship loses gravity this happens instantly. However, judging from the external design of the ship gravity is achieved by rotating the ship around its axis. It would be impossible for the ship to stop rotating completely in an instant as another reverse force should be applied, losing power would still have the ship rotating and thus providing gravity. Even if ship's computer would behave erratically and decide to reverse the spin of the ship, this will most likely not happen instantly and therefore gravity would be lost gradually. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Jim does his first space walk, he cries and tears roll down his face. In zero-gravity, the tears would not roll down his face, they would float out of his eyes. <br>------------------------<br><br>A "slingshot" that close to a star at relativistic speeds would likely tear the ship apart and pulp all passengers. <br>------------------------<br><br>Since the ship engines are shown active and working when Jim is floating in space with no tether line attached - it means the ship is accelerating and would leave Jim quickly behind. <br>------------------------<br><br>The Avalon's journey is scheduled to take 120 years, and this is regarded as a constant throughout the film. Since the ship is traveling at half of light speed, relativity will be a factor, and time will pass much slower on board ship. One hundred and twenty years of ship time could equate to a couple of centuries or more on Earth or Homestead 2. <br>------------------------<br><br>The airlock from which Jim (first) and then Jim and Aurora (later) exit for their spacewalks is in one of the rotating pods; however, when the spacewalkers jump off the pod and spin out to the extent of their tethers, the stars are stationary. <br>------------------------<br><br>Supposedly the ship reaches the star Arcturis 31 - 32 years into the trip - they were both awake so at minimum his 30 years plus the year before he woke her but before gus woke up after another year.Arcturis is 36.7 light years from earth. At half light speed they would only have traveled 16 light years. Nowhere near Arcturis. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the ship first encounters the asteroid belt, there are sound effects when debris hits the ship. Sound waves cannot be heard in space as it is a vacuum. <br>------------------------<br><br>At the end of the film, when the Avalon is seen approaching Homestead-II, the ship is seen to have its engines facing away from the planet, but still ignited.At this final stage in the voyage, the engines would have need to be turned in the direction of travel - not only for reducing speed for safe orbital-insertion, but about halfway through the voyage, as as much time would need to be taken to decelerate as was taken accelerating.<br><br>As shown, the Avalon would merely fly past Homestead-II. <br>------------------------<br><br>Time dilation occurs when traveling near the speed of light. Aurora plans to travel to Homestead II, stay for a year and then return to earth. She says the trip will take 250 years. The trip each way would take 120 years, but due to time dilation this would actually take 15% longer. Therefore the number of years passed on earth would be 277 years (138 each way, plus a year) <br>------------------------<br><br>When Lawrence agrees to have dinner with Pratt the star field out the window port is moving up and not down. Centrifugally, they would have 'fallen' towards the overhead and not the deck. <br>------------------------<br><br>The ship is shown approaching the destination planet in the same orientation it had during the acceleration phase of the voyage...with the ion engine pointing toward Earth. Somewhere in the middle of the trip the ship would have needed to turn around so that the engine could slow the ship down. The ship would have to remain in this reverse orientation as it approached the planet in order to continue to slow down to an orbital speed. <br>------------------------<br><br>The water in the swimming pool should be pressed against the outside of the bubble and not as depicted. <br>------------------------<br><br>From the beginning of the movie we see the main engine of the ship is burning, thus accelerating the ship. At a 1G acceleration you would reach close to the speed of light within one year. At the start of the movie the ship has already traveled for 30 years, so even at a fraction of a 1G acceleration the ship would have reached close to the speed of light, not 50% as later stated in the movie. <br>------------------------<br><br>From all appearances, the ship generates gravity by rotating. If this is true, then the stars are constantly shown as rotating wrong. For example, at the 1h24m mark, the characters are shown in a room with a window looking out on space. With gravity oriented downward in the shot, then the outermost part of the ship should be at their feet, and the stars should sweep past the window left-to-right or right-to-left (depending on if the window is forward- or rear-facing). But they move past in some other, weird pattern, as if the center of rotation were off to the left of the window (whereas the center of rotation should be above their heads). <br>------------------------<br><br>When riding the elevator in the beginning of the movie, Jim experiences loss of "gravity" when he is riding the elevator. This is true when passing the center of a centrifuge, but since it seems the ship is under thrust from the main engine, this acceleration would create a "gravity" towards the back of the ship as well. And you wouldn't experience zero gravity. <br>------------------------<br><br>Common error. Things do not simply freeze in space as shown. Any water vapor not taken out with the air in Jim's suit would dissolve into a cloud of very fine crystals. It couldn't frost up his visor in the way shown. <br>------------------------<br><br>It wouldn't be possible for the passengers to view the star they pass by for more than an instant as the ship is rotating to simulate gravity which would quickly turn them away from the view. <br>------------------------<br><br>One autodoc for a population of 5000 is unreasonable as the population in question would likely only need medical attention in LARGE groups (as when they awaken as a group from hibernation, or in the event of a catastrophe). From what is shown in the film, the autodoc works very quickly, but not quickly enough to suffice during an emergency. <br>------------------------<br><br>After the ship loses gravity and the pool water creates giant bubbles entrapping Aurora the water is seen splashing all around the room; the pool's waves also splash a significant amount of water on the pool deck. Yet, the pool's water level remains full as seen when Aurora reaches the pool's edge to catch her breath. <br>------------------------<br><br>On Jim's first spacewalk, a tear runs down his cheek. The formation of the tear and molecular adherence to his face would certainly be normal even in space, but the gathering teardrop would only run downward on his cheek in the presence of gravity, which would not exist during a spacewalk. In a zero-gravity environment, a tear would just continue to form near the tear duct until it became large enough that the slightest motion of the head caused it to break free and float away, even inside a helmet. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the film, the vessel is traveling at "half the speed of light", which is 93,000 "miles per second". At the beginning of the film, you see the vessel encounter a small debris/asteroid field, and the ship uses its "energy shield" to protect itself from damage. The speed portrayed in the film shows the ship hitting the debris at a much slower speed, possibly less than 1 mile-per-second. If the ship were actually traveling at 93,000 miles per second, any encounter with a debris field would have been instantly catastrophic, energy shield or not. There is simply no way an energy shield, as portrayed in the film, would have the time to destroy anything at that speed. Small dust-sized particles, perhaps, but not large asteroids as shown in the film.However, as speed is relative, the ship and debris can be considered to be traveling in the same direction, with (in this example), 1mph of overtake speed on the part of the ship. This would effectively be the same as a stationary object being hit by an object moving at 1mph. <br>------------------------<br><br>The distance from Earth to Arcturus is 36,6 light years. Traveling at 50% light speed it would take the ship 73 years to get there. Not 120.<br><br>120 years is a good time, assuming that the acceleration is not instant. <br>------------------------<br><br>There is only one Autodoc, a machine used to determine and treat illness, on the whole ship with more than 5,000 people on-board. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the ship approaches Arcturus, a message informs passengers that they might be interested to watch the slingshot. Since the entire crew and passengers are supposed to be asleep until destination, there is absolutely no reason why such a message would have been designed, recorded or played.<br><br>However as we already seen, everything on the ship reacts to them, the bartender, computer, information points, the waiters in the restaurants and so on. It is therefore plausible that the slingshot information is being played because of their presence. <br>------------------------<br><br>In the end, Aurora states that there is only one Autodoc. However, a little earlier, Jim says that there are replacement parts for everything. So, there must be a replacement Autodoc somewhere. <br>------------------------<br><br>A sophisticated starship would have the capability of noting an anomaly in passenger configuration, particularly the fact that one of them has prematurely emerged from his hibernation cocoon, and the fact that the cocoon has malfunctioned. When Jim first awakens, however, he goes to a technical presentation from a holograph and while it senses his presence and proceeds, it proceeds as meant for a room full. Even something that technically simple would not be overlooked, any AI functionality would not only know that people were present, but also exactly how many, and whether the number present matched the numbers that should be attending. <br>------------------------<br><br>At one point, a desperate Jim contemplates suicide by opening an airlock. He is allowed into it, without wearing a space-suit, much less being warned of his actions. On a "passenger" ship, this would be very unlikely, even with his maintenance bracelet. Even HAL 9000 warned Dave Bowman of the foolishness of entering an airlock without a helmet, and it wanted him dead. <br>------------------------<br><br>We are never told what happens to the two main characters. But it seems they lived out their lives and died before the ship arrived. However since it is likely they would live to be different ages after one of them died the other could put themselves into stasis and wake up when the ship arrives. <br>------------------------<br><br>Jim breaks into the luxurious Vienna Suite with a pry bar but in future entries the door opens automatically. <br>------------------------<br><br>Jim is initially restricted from access to certain items and luxuries due to his lower-class passenger ranking. His status is monitored by a bracelet on his wrist. This bracelet would necessarily contain a personal ID linked to a complete set of personal and account status info in the ship's database. This means the ship can keep track of everyone including where they are, meaning a classroom would know exactly how many people are in it, and a luxury suite that was broken into would not begin functioning as though the intruder were authorized. Furthermore, even with current technology a bracelet like that could be read without putting it in a certain proximity to a "bracelet reader." Meaning, every person alive and moving in the ship would necessarily be tracked 100% of the time in order to facilitate ship's functions and schedules. <br>------------------------<br><br>There would be no way for the company to receive "updates" of what occurred to the missions that it sent to Homestead II. The trip is stated as taking 120 years. That would mean that each flight sent would arrive potentially several decades after the last member of each launch crew was deceased. Even if telemetry sent constantly in-flight , it would still take decades to return to Earth, if the signal even made it to its destination.This also means that any information that the company did have about Homestead II would be woefully out of date. At light speed, transmissions sent from the planet would take decades to arrive at Earth; waiting for verbal confirmations would take more than 100 years for each one. There would never be any successful means for the company to have "real time" knowledge of the ships, nor their voyages making the information offered by the computer and the characters either falsehoods or simple speculation. <br>------------------------<br><br>When discussing hibernation pods, Aurora says that the company has made thousands of interstellar flights without a single hibernation pod malfunction. Earlier, when Jim tried to send a message back to Earth, he is told by the computer that it would take around 80 years for a round-trip message. The home company on Earth would therefore have needed many thousands of years to communicate enough with thousands of interstellar flights to not only verify that they reached their destination, but also how ell everything functioned. Not only that, but that time is expressed only as the time relative to the space travelers, but much more time passes on Earth relative to the space travelers, according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, since they are traveling at half the speed of light (or at least they are in the time frame during the voyage that the movie takes place, but since it's not halfway yet and the ship is still accelerating, it must reach even faster speeds). <br>------------------------<br><br>The medical auto diagnostic scanner shows Gus to have 612 disorders, however in a close up to the found disorders, it shows much less disorders that are duplicated. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Aurora disrobes to enter her space suit during the first date, she takes of her dress but not her high heels, which would also need to be removed. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Aurora goes back into the reactor control room to manually pull the lever which opens up the air-cooling duct for the reactor, she burns her hand on the control station lever as it's too hot to touch. Moments later she gets up from the floor while leaning her hand on the same control station but this time she is unscathed by the emitting heat. <br>------------------------<br><br>The crew was meant to wake up one month before the passengers, which was to be five months before the ship's arrival at Homestead II. And yet the crew is seen emerging from their sleep quarters just as the ship approaches the planet to enter orbit. <br>------------------------<br><br>