How lonely we are in the universe? 
讲述天文学家伊萨克深信宇宙是个寂静黑暗之地，除了外太空之外，对生活中其他事物缺乏热情。直到伊萨克遇到了艺术家克莱拉，克莱拉点燃了他的激情，他才发现人与人之间的探索也很迷人…An obsessive astronomer and a curious artist form an unlikely bond which leads them to a profound, scientific discovery.
(Clara) “Can I ask you something?”
(Dr. Isaac Bruno) “Yea”
(Clara) “Why is finding life out there so important to you?”
(Dr. Isaac Bruno) “You know what people are scared of most?”
(Clara) “Death?”
(Dr. Isaac Bruno) “The unknown which unfortunately this universe is chock full of. Sure, we’ve been chipping away at it for thousands of years but we still basically know nothing. So how do we process that? We do what we’ve always done. We make things up. Create these elaborate bedtime stories to explain it all. But if we found something, I mean even smallest clue that something else exists out there. Something entirely different, well we wouldn’t be in the dark anymore. We wouldn’t have to be scared.”
Emotion versus Data. I appreciated how wonderfully constructed the Clara character is. She is artistic, curious, wise but also fragile, and spiritual. The director used the sci-fi concept to talk about concepts like connection, loneliness, grief, and hope. The plot honestly is very simple and sometimes too dry to stay. The romantic and then spiritual relationships between the main characters are not very well played. The ex-wife character looked like a public relations specialist rather than a CIT astronomy professor, However, space and art scenes, Bob Dylan’s music, and human concepts capture you to finish.
The movie has a 45% reviewer rating but a 90+% audience rating on rotten tomato. I gave it 7.5 because emotionally it finishes the job – I cried to sleep, very satisfied to hold the belief there’s something way beyond our comprehension in the universe that we are connected. However, the movie could be condensed much more.