If you are a die-hard sci-fi fan, then you're likely to be disappointed by Proxima, which presents itself as a sci-fi movie but it's not. This is a movie about the relationship between a divorced mother, Sarah, and her young daughter, Stella; now, Sarah happens to be an astronaut selected for an all important mission on the ISS, so more specifically the plot could be described as: "what happens to a mother-daughter relationship when the mother is about to leave the earth for a 1-year long mission in the space". I would presume this would restrict dramatically the probabilities of viewer identification with the situation...
In reality, the space mission is just a very light background to the human relationship story; per se, this would not even be a big problem for me if the story was good. Unfortunately, I found that even the story about the mother and the daughter was very predictable and very cliché. Moreover, one element was rather annoying for me, ie. that our mother astronaut is ultimately a quite irresponsible person. Astronauts are supposed to be vary cold-blooded, very rational people, highly trained and prepared- physically and mentally - for their missions. Now, what the lady astronaut discovers on the eve of the mission (she misses her daughter) was not so hard to guess before embarking into it. But the lack of self-assessment of her limits puts at risk the mission, the work of her colleagues and the millions invested into it.
Review of Proxima
