"An astronaut drifts in space, staring at a nebula in silence. He reflects on the wife he left behind and the unborn child who will never know him. This short film is relatively simple to the point of feeling hollow.
There are sprinkles of potential ideas but noting fleshed out. Perhaps space is a metaphor for the vast emptiness he feels for abandoning those he loves; maybe he's symbolic of his own unborn child, lonely in the never ending womb of the universe.
Who knows.
Large portions are in silence with only the minimal of ambient humming creeping out the speaker. At one point even that cuts out and I wasn't sure if there was an audio problem or if the dead silence was an artistic choice.
It's a shame really because this could have been a really gripping psych trip dripping in excellent use of space as metaphor. Instead, it's just a simmering sun low on hydrogen"
- 3/5/10
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