This is a movie about a relationship, when one person is unhappy and the other doesn't know or care enough to notice.
Set in the future of a dying earth, Junior, husband to Hen(rietta), is told by Terrence from the government that he will have to go into space to set up a new off earth colony. It'll take years.
The couple has been married for 7 years. The wife isn't content to be on the useless, been in the family for generations farm of Junior and wants something different.
While the arguments between them aren't written in a particularly natural way, we are meant to pick up their unhappiness or at least the wife's. Also, long pensive scenes of the wife crying in the shower and looking in the distance is supposed to help us understand her unhappiness.
There's a cheat in the movie and for some, once it's made clearer 3/4ths the way through, might be enough to to make them want to go back and watch the movie again, because then you'll know which time we're looking at at any given moment - past, parent, or future throughout the film.
If you are perceptive enough you'll know. There are breadcrumbs all along the way.
Once I did, it made the film much more clever and a lot less confusing and less seemingly disjointed.
Set in the future of a dying earth, Junior, husband to Hen(rietta), is told by Terrence from the government that he will have to go into space to set up a new off earth colony. It'll take years.
The couple has been married for 7 years. The wife isn't content to be on the useless, been in the family for generations farm of Junior and wants something different.
While the arguments between them aren't written in a particularly natural way, we are meant to pick up their unhappiness or at least the wife's. Also, long pensive scenes of the wife crying in the shower and looking in the distance is supposed to help us understand her unhappiness.
There's a cheat in the movie and for some, once it's made clearer 3/4ths the way through, might be enough to to make them want to go back and watch the movie again, because then you'll know which time we're looking at at any given moment - past, parent, or future throughout the film.
If you are perceptive enough you'll know. There are breadcrumbs all along the way.
Once I did, it made the film much more clever and a lot less confusing and less seemingly disjointed.