They knew she would have more of a chance to make it to a place where a humanoid ‘repair robot’, sent out years ago in case of these kinds of emergencies, would be able to rendezvous with her before the air eventually ran out and so be able to fix her systems.So they sacrifice themselves for her. Played by the wonderful Clara Lago, she is now in her 20s but her parents fled the spaceship three years before after a malfunction became apparent in the oxygen systems. So, again, if you’ve not seen this movie, maybe just watch it before reading this review. Secondly, yes this review will also have the same spoilers because, with a film like this, it seems a somewhat fruitless exercise to not be able to discuss what the film is really about. It gives away the big twist of the story for the sake of marketing purposes. This is a film that I recommend, not only for the interesting story, but also for the discussions it can elicit.Warning: First of all, do not make the same mistake I made and watch the trailer for this movie before seeing it. It is not without reason that the experiment shown in the film is carried out in Colombia, with protection of the national army, but who gives the orders is a character who speaks English, and that always discuss questions about money.Anything new? And if the reader thinks that this is fantasy, what about thinking about the dozens of economic plans and systems of governments that we have had in Brazil in the last decades? Could it be that the fact of being millions makes the experiment less damaging? “Orbiter 9” raises some interesting points for discussion, such as the use of humans in experiments without their awareness or permission. Without major appeals for special effects, but taking advantage of some interesting locations, it is not difficult to believe the story shown on the screen.The film was written and directed by the Spanish Hatem Khraiche, who had already awakened the attention with “The Secret Room” (“La Cara Oculta”) in 2011. Some of these discoveries, however, lead her to question everything, including Alex himself.Īlthough the synopsis suggests that this is a trivial science fiction, like so many others in Hollywood, “Orbiter 9” shows that, with intelligence and creativity, it is possible to make a quality movie with few resources.The budget for this movie was four million euros, which in Hollywood would just be the pay of any famous actor. Obviously, the adjustment is not easy, even if she is living a long-held love relationship, and discovering a flood of things she had never dreamed of. The girl does not believe what he says, until he convinces her to leave the facility, and discovers that instead of outer space, she is on real Earth. In addition to affective involvement, he questions the ethical aspects of the experiment, where ten people are subjected to life imprisonment without the least prospect of freedom.Īfter think a lot, he decides to act, and invades the site of the experiment to remove Helena from there. All that is a simulation of a space travel, and Helena is only one of ten people who are studied without being aware that it is all a farce.īut while Helen remains in the innocence of ignorance, Alex increasingly feels a guilty conscience. What was thought to be a spaceship is a huge underground facility somewhere in Colombia. However, when Alex leaves the ship, the spectator is informed of the truth. The other day he leaves the ship, and she continues what she believes to be a journey of two more decades. At a young age, the contact with the first human being different from her parents, and a latent romanticism lead the young woman to take the initiative to make love to him, despite guy’s reluctance. The visit provokes unexpected reactions in Helena. The young woman fulfills her solitary daily routine working on the ship, exercising and watching romantic movies, which for her are a total fiction, since the only people she have met were her parents.Because of this, she is in great expectation with the visit of Álex (Álex González), a young engineer who will do the necessary maintenance so that she can follow the trip. She started the trip with her parents as a baby, and they had to sacrifice themselves for her survival because of an oxygen-generating problem. Helena (Clara Lago) is a young woman of twenty years who lives in seclusion in a spacecraft that makes a long trip toward a terrestrial colony in a remote star system. What would you do if you discovered that your whole life is a lie, that the parents you believe dead are part of the farce, and that nothing good awaits you in the future? This is the plot of the movie “Orbiter 9,” an interesting Hispano-Colombian science fiction, a product quite different from Hollywood standard.
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