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Ad Astra Film Analysis - Coggle Diagram
Ad Astra Film Analysis
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Plot
Beginning
- Movie starts with dialogue of astronaut initiation.
- Electrical surges from space caused tower malfunction which knowcked Roy off the tower. (Power surge from Neptune).
- Roy ia told by governement agent that his father may be alive, to reach him they want to send Roy to the underground Mars base to send him a message (But in secret so he is going on a commercial flight to the moon first to camoflouge their motives).
- Flies to the moon on a commercial flight and in attempt to go to the far side of the moon (dark) they are ambushed by pirates and many of them are killed (Pruitt was severely injured).
- Gets on the ship to Mars without Colonel Pruitt, on the way they find a Norweigan ship emitting a mayday call. They went aboard the ship and found nobody except a primate who had killed Captain Tanner and had tried to kill Roy.
- Before landing on Mars they are hit by a power surge and their ship malfunctions and in order to land the captain needed to switch to manual. But Captain Stanford froze up so Roy took over.
- Roy is on Mars sending messages to his father, then he goes off script and hence he is forced to return to earth. In a hallway he sees the crew prepping for a flight and then learns from Helen that the rocket has nuclear ammo and is on a seek and destroy mission; she also shows him the video of his father's confession.
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Key Points
Key Moments
Lima Project = First expedition to the outer solar system (Astronaut was Roy's father who dissapered on the mission).
Roy's father is still alive and he had murdered a large part of his crew because they mutinied and wanted to return home, and he didn't.
Roy believes the moon colony is a recreation of what they are running from on earth (and that his father would want to tear it all down).
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Colonel Pruitt gave Roy a classified document that entailed that his father may have intentionally sabotoged communications.
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After Roy goes off script he is to be sent home, they said it's because of his connection to his father; but something is off and he believes he made contact.