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Film Review The Martian The Martian is a great action/comedy film. It describes the dangers of space and the feelings of a man who feels totally abandoned… on Mars! Mars is a place where there is no food… he’s got to eat, Mars is a place where there is no water… he’s got to drink, Mars is a place where there is no company… he’s got to keep his mind. It keeps the viewer truly fascinated as to how he copes. At the beginning of the movie, a team of astronauts are on Mars running
experiments as is standard for astronauts to do. They’ve been there a while running these experiments and living in the space ship. The storms on Mars are huge and they are no extraordinary thing for the astronauts, who regularly have to retreat to the ship because of them. However this time the storm is particularly powerful and the team becomes trapped in it!!! They have to put almost all their strength into walking, because the storm is so strong. Soon it starts breaking bits off the base they set up and the space ship starts to tip. The pilot is still inside the ship and notices the ship tipping on a monitor. A bit breaks off the base and strikes Mark Watney who gets hurled away and lost. The team are forced to give up looking for him when the storm gets worse. They leave and head back to Earth. He has no connection with the Earth and only has enough food for 400 days. It will be at least 4 years before a manned mission can
rescue him. He has quite a lot of potatoes but not nearly enough to last, his way round this is to grow more. The only problem is that nothing grows on Mars. Also there is no water so he has to make it. He had all the elements but there are a few… explosions on the way. He also finds out he can grow potatoes in his own poo. Fortunately he finds a camera from a 1980 probe. By tracking him NASA realise what he’s doing and use the camera (which is attached to the probe). He then uses hexadecimals to speak to NASA. But can he survive the whole 3 years? Overall this is a great film which I would highly recommend. It has disasters along with triumphs and has a great ending. Max Franklin Davis, 7E
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