Down to Earth or with their heads in the clouds?

Since human heads were first lifted to the moon, our imagination has
fled into space. Here is where movies have the best excuse to display
spectacular shots and special effects, to show the technical height of the
filming, just like Ridley Scott’s The Martian or Christopher Nolan’s
Interstellar do. However, the merit of these movies lies not in their visual
excellence, but in their gripping storylines.

Although both have survival and scientific matters in common, The

Martian focuses in the survival of astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon)
making out all alone in Mars after being abandoned, and Interstellar fetches
the spreading or extinction of the human race, launching its characters to an
exciting adventure to the unknown. Saving Matt, however, seems to be a
very recurrent topic in any film!

What makes these two movies prize-winning worthy is the skillful

carrying through a journey from the intimate to the macrographic. Here is
where they differ. Scott’s book-based movie carries us through desert
landscapes of loneliness in the red planet, willing to be rescued and back to
Earth’s safety, while Nolan’s can make the most inner feelings to cross
whole light-years of vacuum. Down with Hans Zimmer’s moving soundtrack,
they can as well penetrate into the viewer’s heart.

All put together makes The Martian a great survival and rescue movie,
taking the audience to the desolate wasteland in Mars and turning fear of
death into optimism to the rhythm of 80’s music. But if you’d rather dream
of exhilarating wormhole travels and maneuvers around spacetime-
distorting black holes, then Interstellar is definitely your movie.

“Great job!”

(No mistakes, a perfect writing)