In the somber interplanetary adventure from co-writer and director James Gray, Academy Award-winner Brad Pitt plays Astronaut Roy McBride, who is tasked with a top secret mission to search the deepest reaches of outer space for his long lost father (Tommy Lee Jones).
That being said, to say that the film itself is optimistic in its content is a whole different discussion entirely.
Of the recent films that aim to imagine what future we may be heading toward, it seems that Ad Astra is one of the most accurate and, in some ways, the most optimistic.
His expedition takes the audience on a tour of a futuristic society that does not feel far out of reach (including commercial space travel), but it’s also an often horrifying cautionary tale that might even keep Elon Musk up at night.
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