The Martian (2015)

The Martian is a Hollywood movie directed by Ridley Scott, released in 2015. It tells us the story of a Mars Mission where an astronaut Mark Watney is left by mistake as their shuttle suddenly heads towards their next destination following a storm in Mars, assuming Mark to be dead in that incident.

The film shows us the various ways by which the lone survivor passes his days, how he makes arrangements for his daily life, how he starts a video log to communicate with earth, to tell them that he is alive and later to tell them about his daily life, how he repairs an old machine (i.e.- the robotic spacecraft- Pathfinder) to communicate with Earth. After a few days, people from Earth and the space shuttle which left him by mistake try to save him. Then we see how in spite of facing many difficulties, he travels to the place from where the shuttle would come to pick him up. Watney has shown tremendous courage, strength of mind and indomitable spirit in dealing with the day to day problems. It gives us the motivation how to lead a life in a complete adverse situation, with constant struggle going on, we do not see him getting depressed ever; for any problem, everytime he comes up with a solution. Truly inspirational!!! Living alone in a planet for 560 Solar Days of Mars!

The scene where all the potatoes grown by Mark as well as the farm gets burnt down was so miserable! Still Mark survives that and carries on.

The original novel by the same name, written by Andy Weir, itself was successful and Ridley Scott's direction does justice to it. The whole film mainly rests on Matt Damon, who is one of my favourite actors :). There are many more famous actors like Jessica Chastain, Sean Bean, Jeef Daniels- all have done wonderful work.

I also loved the red coloured Nature of Mars as shown in the film, it is another main reason for me to like the film. In Wikipedia, we can see the shooting has been done in Wadi Rum in Jordan. It is an experience to watch it on big screen!