The sci-fi film, less than two hours long, doesn't need much more to outperform Netflix's Rebel Moon.

when I saw 'The Martian” Written by Ridley Scott The first time I was blown away. I've watched it four times since it came out in theaters in 2015, but it's not the only one that features life on Mars. In fact, there's a movie on Prime Video that tells the story of the colonization of the red planet from a realistic point of view, but also Pessimistic, which I recently discovered.

I talk about”Surviving on Mars, a 2022 film that went completely unnoticed in Spain. As the protagonists of the novel, we find Sofia Boutella and Brooklyn Prince along with someone you may be familiar with, Ismael Cruz Córdova, the troll from the “Rings of Power” controversy. It showed us, as The Little Mermaid did, that there is still a lot of subtle racism in cinema.

Summary of “Survival on Mars”

After an environmental disaster, a family tries to survive on a desolate planet Mars. Riza and Elsa do what they can to protect their 9-year-old daughter, Remy, from the dangers of this hostile environment. But one day, some bandits attacked them and managed to kill the father. One of the bandits who managed to escape the attack alive demands to stay in the house and prove his worth to them within thirty days. Will Elsa and her daughter be able to survive in the house with this violent stranger?

Set in the year 2078, in the not-so-distant future, this Western-tinged film takes us to a newly conquered planet that looks a lot like the Wild West. Directed and written by Wyatt Rockefeller, this film depicts the alien expanses of Mars using the intimacy of a family.

In short, “Survival on Mars” is an exploration of outer space, but it is also a meditation on human resistance, family, and the search for a new home in the far reaches of the universe. And The thing that surprised me: It lasts less than two hours.

Sometimes shorter is better

It has become fashionable for cinema to last longer. And There is an explanation why today's cinema is longer. In the 1960s, the average film length was 119 minutes, and in the 1980s, it was 110 minutes. We have now reached an average of 138 minutes. As Espinof experts have shown us, this is what streaming is all aboutBut it affects the entire cinema and the way it is made.

It's not that we don't like movies like “Community in the snow of BayonneIt's that sometimes I don't have the time (or patience) to spend more than two hours in front of the TV watching a movie. As long as it entertains me and keeps me not thinking for two hours, it's fine, just like Survival on Mars does.

The opposite happens withRebellious moon“, the Zack Snyder movie that premiered last December on Netflix and also stars Sofia Boutella. They both take us into a horrific world but with a difference: Snyder is very long because it lasts more than two hours, and Rockefeller is more direct and you won't feel like you're wasting your time. And that, in Productivity timesIt's an advantage.

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Photos | Survival on Mars (Prime Video)

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