Space Metaphors

The ship has a bunch of movies you can watch on demand. Tonight we watched “Ad Astra” starring Brad Pitt.

While watching, I realized it would make a good double-feature with the Sandra Bullock film, “Gravity.” On the surface, both movies are sci-fi, but metaphorically, they deal with emotionally disconnected people by using space as a metaphor for the distance between people.

If you’ve you seen either film, can you see my point?Read more