Stowaway (2021)

BradWesley123’s Movie Journal- June 2021 (39 movies items)

" Netflix- 1hr. 56min. First Viewing Stowaway is well-made chamber drama about the cost of ambition and the value of human life. The first half of the film really does a strong job handling these concepts; you feel the weight of the predicament, the toll on the characters. It's evocative and bracing; do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, when you actually have to look the few in the eye? The cast, too, terrifically illustrates this dichotomy of reason and emotion. Then the secon"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2021: July (49 movies items)

"First viewing - July 27th Toni Collette, Anna Kendrick, and Daniel Dae Kim? That's all you had to say. Here's another film though that works better in its first half than the second. I did appreciate that the titular stowaway wasn't someone with a nefarious plot, as that angle has been done enough. Thus the film deals more with the negative consequences of mistakes with regard to spending a tour in space, and the ways its characters react to it and one another. And there are enough monkeywrench"