On reflection, I realise that sci-fi concepts and settings are perfect spawning grounds for stories with loneliness encoded into them. We’ll venture beyond the stratosphere in a moment (I believe that Matt Damon is waiting up there) but first I’d like to stay grounded on Earth for a brief sweep across the genre.
Some cinematic memories may come to mind – for instance, abandoned Gary Cooper in High Noon, Robert De Niro as “God’s lonely man” in Taxi Driver, Oldboy, or scraggly-beard Tom Hanks on a desert island talking to a volleyball. It’s also true that so many movies – more than we probably realise on first thought – touch upon the concept of loneliness and express in various ways on screen, whether that be in subtle or strikingly overt fashion. They offer some short-term companionship, an opportunity to empathise and get involved in some external excitement, adventure and human interest drama, etc.
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It may be done as a shared, communal activity but I’d still say that for a great many geeks, going to see a movie is a very personal affair in which an individual eagerly seeks to engage with ephemeral fictional characters.Ī lot of lonely people enjoy films because they function as a multisensory distraction and provide a fleeting illusion of shared sociality. It’s true that going to the cinema may not be as intimate and private as curling up with a book in bed, but ultimately it’s still sitting alone in a dark room. Films, I believe, offer some of the best explorations of isolation and cinema may in fact be the ideal medium through which to investigate the theme and the feelings. Loneliness series as a touchstone.) Fortunately, you don’t have to put yourself through an extreme ordeal like the one already described because there are plenty of less risky opportunities and artistic representations out there. Loneliness is a crucial part of the human experience and it’s vital that we face it and engage with it for our wellbeing as individuals and as a society. It took a long time to get over the trauma and the heartwarming film Pride to convince me that the Welsh Valleys aren’t actually Hell). This makes us sick, sad, strange and potentially leads to us screaming at the hallucinated phantoms and streams of blood that are trickling down the walls of our fortresses of solitude (seriously, I’m never doing anything like that again and I urge you never to take up a winter cat-sitting gig. Personal space and private time are important obviously – for reading, for writing, for meditation and for attending to personal hygiene, for instance.Īs a social species, though, it isn’t natural for us to stay on our own for lengthy periods without any contact with other human beings. What I learned from this unfortunate experience is that human beings shouldn’t be alone for long stretches of time. The film is a sad and striking portrayal of madness, hope, and despair with a futuristic bend.By Christmas I was back home in a very sorry state, bitterly regretting my misguided decision to become a hermit-cum-festive catsitter on my own. Trey is unable to cope with the death of Kanada and is assessed as a suicide risk and sedated. After a shielding mistake from Trey, Captain Kanada dies in a repair accident and the ship's oxygen reserve is damaged. After picking up the distress signal from the Icarus I, which disappeared seven years prior, things start to go wrong for the crew. The movie followed the crew of astronauts on a mission to reignite the dying Sun.Īn international crew pilots the Icarus II, with Wong playing navigator, Trey a child prodigy who once created a computer virus that brought down a sixth of the world's computers. The film also starred Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Tony Garity, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Chipo Chung.
The 2007 sci-fi film Sunshine was directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, and will not be the only example on this list of Benedict working with Garland.
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