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Good movie but grossly overrated

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

You know you're in for a thoughtful, challenging film when not one, but at least TWO of the reviews here are titled "Boring, boring, boring". But enough about you, rapier-witted viewer; what did you think of the film?This is an independent effort filmed without commercial backing, in the backyard of the producer's parents. This fact will amaze you when you see it. "Love" is one of those indies that reminds you that filmmaking isn't dead. (Just not profitable, in a world of boring viewers.) The parallels to 2001: A Space Odyssey (another "boring, boring, boring" film) are striking, right down to the fact that the leading men share an uncanny resemblance. In "Love", however, the antagonist is not a virus-infected computer, but the hero's own mind. Anyway, if you want to see what you can do with little money, a high concept, a talented actor (who holds down most of the movie all by himself; think "All Is Lost" -- yet another boring movie), and sheer grit, then give this a spin. It's an astonishing film.

I don't understand the reviews claiming that this is a film detailing ''the human condition'. It's a pretentious film that darts back and forth between scenes that add nothing to this apparent exhibition of what it means to be isolated. The film is full of long drawn out shots of the main character sitting down looking at something in his hand. I watched it to the very end and found it to be devoid of any message or story of any kind. The aesthetics are very nice but that's about it. You will get more of a study of this 'human condition' watching Maury. Steve McQueen portrayed isolation better when he was throwing a baseball at a wall. Avoid this film.

It's hard to find a good Sci Fi movie. And this turd didn't make that statement any less true. I honestly can't recall the last time I saw anything this utterly lacking in any redeeming qualities. Watched it on Netflix and I'm still angry that the lowest rating I could give it was 1 star. I want to give it negative stars. He's in orbit but obviously experiencing full gravity, with no explanation. All ground stations simply stop responding to him at once and his response is almost nil. Eventually they send him a single cryptic message about how they don't have the manpower to de-orbit him then refuse to explain what the hell is going on. The movie flips in and out of Civil War history clips, dream sequences, interviews with nameless individuals with no apparent connection to the story and random shots of all sorts of odd things, in such a chaotic fashion it's impossible to establish if there even IS a plot. The audio is full of odd noises which are sometimes the radio, sometimes his delusions(?) and sometimes just background noise for the soundtrack. He decides to end it all by de-orbiting himself (not by firing himself out of an airlock or something to send him earthward but by lowering himself on a cable; in what gravity?!) then decides not to. Goes nuts and stops grooming himself and spends enough time growing facial hair and wallpapering the station that the dwindling O2 which made him want to end it all would surely have run out. Then a Borg Cube shows up out of nowhere and then he wanders through old abandon buildings for a while in a space suit with laced boot, no oxygen tanks or fittings to attach such (but with a closed helmet; breathing what?) And we end with some complete nonsense about a large building crashing in the desert in the 1800's? And we wrap it up with more gibberish about companionship and social interactions. Painful. Save yourself the agony and avoid this.I suppose that (maybe) if you were on strong hallucinogens you might see some deep hidden meaning or something but I highly doubt it and don't recommend trying it. I think the more likely scenario would be that it would just confuse and depress you. So if you do try that, make sure to have someone around who can rescue you. Horrible, horrible junk. I'm just stunned that anyone could put that together, sit through it and say, "Well, great job everybody! We've done it! The movie is complete."

Not until close to the ending do all the pieces come together. Of course, for many viewers this will not feel cohesive even then, and that's not said to sound as if I got it and I'm amazing for doing so. This is a movie that requires all boundaries to be removed and to understand that essentially, every single thing is purely a vibration and that 'matter' and consciousness is something which humans are only barely scratching the surface to understand or to think of on a day to day basis. I was totally absorbed by this. Many of the reviews say that they were bored demented. But only because they came to this with an expectation and often, when something is not formulaic or the stuff of day to day conversation then people become annoyed. This was truly ground breaking and excellent but in order to appreciate it you would need to allow science to meet open minds to meet metaphysics.