In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society.
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations
- Seth
- (as Yu Hwan Park)
- The Collective
- (voice)
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- TriviaDirector Drake Doremus envisioned Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart as the leads, but only together and if either one of them were unable to do the film, neither would be in it.
- GoofsAn "interstellar" news report says a space probe is preparing to land on planet TK-14 which is 798 million miles from Earth, but that distance is not interstellar. It is roughly the distance from the Sun to Saturn.
- Quotes
Silas: [propped up on his arm in bed with Nia] I never could have imagined what love felt like. It's... strange... like a tornado going around and...
Nia: Yeah
[laughs shyly, then turns serious]
Nia: That's why I was scared of it at first.
Silas: [nods several times]
Nia: It's about giving. Like, I want you to take everything. I don't even know what it is but I want you to take it from me.
Silas: I just wanna-
[amusedly]
Silas: I wanna run.
[Nia laughs, Silas smiles]
Silas: I mean like you and I, both of us, just run...
[closes his eyes]
Silas: ... as fast as we can, outside, just take off.
[opens his eyes]
Silas: It's so weird; I'm like... I keep thinking about... Ever since we were kids, it's been drilled to us that our purpose is to explore the universe, you know? Outer space is where we'll find the answers to why we're here and where we come from. It's like everyone's... searching for these answers eight hundred million miles away and the truth is the answers are right in front of us.
[looks into Nia's eyes intensely]
Silas: I know why I'm here.
Nia: Me too.
- Crazy creditsIn luminous letters in the closing credits, the letter 'E's' would light up first to mimic an 'equal sign' first before full illumination of all the letters.
- SoundtracksOverture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air (Air on a G String)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Capella Istropolitana, Jaroslav Dvorak
Courtesy of Naxos of America
I do not like Kristen Stewart as an actress to be honest as I find she evokes no emotion and has one forward gear but nothing else but paradoxically she is actually perfect for this role as is her equally strange lover Nicholas Hoult who I am also not that fond of but both play their parts well.
This is one of those films you start to hate as you watch but as it winds its way to the end, you just cannot stop but admire how well the story plays out and although a lot of the reviewers seem to hate the ending, I love it when we do not get the usual Hollywood formula ending and we get a true to life or thought provoking denouement that actually left me with a tear in my eye (just a little one though - anyone see the Bears game last night? >;o)), so this goes from a 4 out of 10 first half to a very solid 7/10 overall for me.
PS. "The Bears game" reference is the scene in Planes, Trains and Automobiles pillow scene for those that are wondering - 10 stars if you got it, you are obviously a movie fan like me!
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Box office
- Budget
- $16,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,258
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,206
- Jul 17, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $2,084,628
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1