Ad Astra

• Watched this movie Ad Astra on Hotstar.
• I found this movie too good.
• One has to understand its essence.
• The movie is based on finding intelligent life in the far corners of our Universe.
• But there is no life.
• That is what Tommy Lee Jones says to his son Brad Pitt when he makes his way to Neptune after two decades.
• All that time link with earth is cut off.
• Suddenly there is burst of energy towards earth which proves damaging with lives lost.
• Source of those bursts were found to be near Neptune.
• Thus the mission happens.
• Since Brad Pitt is closely related he is taken off the mission. But somehow he makes his way back to the spaceship.
• And he is the only traveler on the ship.
• Source of bursts are indeed the Tommy Lee Jones ship but it is due to people of the ship who wanted to escape back to earth.
• There is a struggle and Tommy Lee Jones prevails and keeps trying to rectify it.
• Once you realise he is working for decades and has documented different worlds but there is no sign of life anywhere you realise Earth is the only place to support life.
• The hostility of Moon and Mars environment is shown.
• Mars is last outpost of humans in space.
• Also there are inter-nation conflict on the surface of the Moon and there are pirates also.
• Once you realise that humans are the only intelligent life form in space what is the fighting (between humans) for.
• It is meaningless to have conflicts.
• That is the bottomline.