As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
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- (as Justin Andrew Jamieson)
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- TriviaIo was the original title of Outland (1981) but at that time testing showed people read the name Io as 10, and so the name was changed.
- GoofsAt the beginning of the movie, Sam takes a sample looking to see if bacteria can use ammonia (NH3) as an oxygen (O2) source. Ammonia has no oxygen available to be used.
- Quotes
Sam: Do you think it's absurd to love someone that's millions of miles away?
Micah: Not at all. So ancient is the desire for one another which is implanted in us. Reuniting our original nature, seeking to make one of two and healing the state of man.
Sam: What's that?
Micah: Plato. Symposium.
Sam: What does it mean?
Micah: He says, humans originally had two faces. Four arms, four legs. And they were happy like that. Complete. Then they defied the gods, so the gods split us in two as punishment. Tore us away from our other halves. He said, each of us, when separated, is always looking for our other half. It's our nature. But when one is met with this other half... the pair are lost in an amazement of love, friendship, intimacy. And one will not be seen out of the other's sight. See, the reason is, human nature was once originally one. And we were whole. And the desire and the pursuit of the whole... is called love.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Flix Forum: IO (2021)
- SoundtracksNocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Written by Frédéric Chopin (as Frederic Chopin)
Performed by Idil Biret
Courtesy of Naxos
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The actors are decent, but don't have much to work with. It feels like the director was yelling, "more monotone, less passion!" The script is plodding and full of unnecessary mythology references that will go over most peoples heads and even having knowledge of the stories they were referencing I don't know how it applies. Either it is very complicated or so simple that I am overthinking it. I don't like to throw around the word 'pretentious' a lot, but this is certainly that at times. It is hard to explain without spoilers, but by around 2/3rds in people will understand what I mean.
All in all not a horrible movie, but not a good one. I feel with better direction and a more meaty script it could have fallen into a nice spot of an intriguing watch. It also has a very shove-climate-change-down-your-throat kind of attitude that even as someone who believes the scientists on climate change feels forced. The music is really good, but doesn't save it. This movie falls with a lot of Netflix movies into decent but disappointing.
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- Jan 17, 2019
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- Also known as
- Sống Còn
- Filming locations
- Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France(shot on location at)
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- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1