When I first saw the film trailer, it was this quote that drew me in, made me listen up. It IS all in our minds based on our thoughts and feelings about events that may or MAY NOT ever happen. It’s an interesting quote because it makes you realise that when you really deconstruct ‘fear’, it’s not real. That quote is from the movie ‘After Earth’ and was spoken by Will Smith. We are all telling ourselves a story and that day mine changed.” Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.
It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. After Earth aims for interstellar overdrive but barely manages to take off.“Fear is not real. The film suffers from a lack of ambition. There are menacing moments and the editing is taut but this stays in cliché territory it’s nothing you haven’t seen before. The rest of the cast is inconsequential, forgettable and completely replaceable. It’s about Kitai having to prove himself to his dad. At some point, they lose contact and Kitai’s moment of reckoning arrives. Again it’s like how a computer-programmed narrator is in a video-game. That’s it, game over.Ĭypher maintains a radio link with Kitai as the harsh patriarch at times and the voice of reason-cum-vendor of wisdom and encouragement at other times.
And in the end, there is a ‘boss fight’ with a hideous alien critter called the Ursa. There are health packs too, like bonus points. Along the way he battles monsters of increasing strength. The film’s plot bears an uncanny resemblance to a video-game where the player has to go the distance from point ‘A’ to ‘B’ (100 km, in this case) in ‘X’ amount of time.
Cypher Raige (Smith) and his son Kitai Raige (Jaden) are forced to crash-land. The film is set hundreds of years into the future, where mankind has been evacuated from Earth a planet now inhabited by human-eating nasties. Here, he takes the back seat and hands Jaden the baton (obvious metaphors abound he gives the kid his own saber at the commencement of the quest) to be the main man. Review: Will Smith is known to do films with a bang - grand movies of sweeping scale where he is the focal point of attention. Father sends the son on a mission to get to a rescue beacon in time and beam a distress message into deep space. Story: A father and son are stranded when their spaceship crash-lands on post-apocalyptic Earth.
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