Review The Martian (2015)
Review The Martian (2015)
Watney is part of a team of astronauts on a mission named Ares III which has deposited a crew on the surface of Mars for a series of experiments and reconnaissance planned to take place over about a month’s time. There’s an immediate display of the camaraderie and bantering quality between these adventurers as the film starts, but things become deadly serious almost instantly when a violent storm descends, one that’s vicious enough to potentially knock over the spacecraft the team is supposed to leave the planet’s surface on. That forces an emergency evacuation order on the part of the mission’s commander, Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain). In a horrifying sequence the astronauts attempt to get from their “habitation” unit to the spacecraft in order to depart Mars, a short but perilous journey that ends in apparent tragedy when Watney is whacked full on by a satellite dish cartwheeling through the ferocious Martian wind. With no life sign data emanating from Watney’s spacesuit, and no ability to find Watney’s now far flung body in the pitch black darkness, Lewis has no choice but to depart with her surviving crew, supposedly leaving Watney’s corpse on the surface of Mars.
Of course Watney is not dead, and in a second horrifying sequence startles awake to the realization that he has been “speared” by part of the wiring of the satellite dish, forcing Watney to operate on himself once he drags himself back to the habitation unit. In the first of several elisions that cover huge narrative swaths contained in Weir’s book, Watney assesses his chances, taking an inventory of supplies (especially food stuffs), and decides that “sciencing” the you-know-what out of the situation is his only recourse. As a botanist, he’s aware the food will not grow in the bacteria free soil of the Red Planet, and so he sets about “injecting” that element courtesy of the human waste that has accrued in a portal of the habitation unit. He manages to grow a rather amazing crop of potatoes, something that will at least provide sufficient calories for the time being (the film tends to avoid some of the novel’s explanations, namely that Watney has vitamins to spare for those kinds of nutritional needs and is simply searching for easy calories to burn).
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