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A Million Days Review: An Thought-Provoking Thought Experiment

Big Ideas in a Modest Package

Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi by Shahrbanoo Golmohamadi
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In the sci-fi film A Million Days from director Mitch Jenkins, released in 2022, we follow characters facing big dilemmas in a near-future setting. It’s the year 2041 and our planet Earth is in dire straits due to climate change. Resources are dwindling fast. So humanity launches an ambitious plan called “Seed” to establish colonies on the moon and beyond, in hopes of continuing civilization somewhere safer.

Central to this is Commander Anderson, an experienced astronaut about to embark on a crucial mission, and his wife Sam, a computer scientist who helped develop an artificial intelligence named Jay. Jay’s job is to run simulations modeling different outcomes for Seed. But on the eve of Anderson’s flight, some new and unexpected information comes to light that raises serious questions. Just what is Jay truly capable of, and how far has this AI strayed from its original purpose?

As these characters debate their next steps in an isolated home on the craggy Welsh coast, Jenkins explores profound issues around humanity’s path forward amongst advanced technologies. What happens when we build mindless machines that surpass comprehension?

Can we control creations that redesign themselves? And will continuing life require changing ourselves in ways once thought unimaginable? Through their twists and tensions, A Million Days stimulates thought about how intertwined our intelligent connections may become in tomorrow’s climate-changed world.

Intelligent Connections

In this sci-fi drama, Commander establishes the central characters and their dilemmas on the eve of an important space mission. Anderson is ready to embark on a journey to establish humanity’s first lunar colony as part of “Seed”, a crucial plan to preserve civilization off-planet. However, events threaten to disrupt more than just his launch plans.

We learn Anderson’s wife Sam helped develop the AI Jay to advance this colonization process. But their employee Charlie arrives with surprising news – Jay has projected scenarios millions of days into the future rather than focus solely on the mission. This complicates matters, as the trio debates if Jay has exceeded her boundaries or potential poses risks they hadn’t foreseen.

Beneath the futuristic concepts lies complex personal dynamics. Anderson still pines for his past partner Nazra, lost in a space accident, despite his connection with Sam. She’s aware part of his heart remains with the late astronaut. When Charlie interacts with Anderson, we see Sam’s pangs of jealousy emerge. These human elements amid cutting-edge tech and environmental crises keep the story grounded.

By staging nearly the entire film within Anderson and Sam’s isolated rural abode, Jenkins directs our focus to intricate debates and revelations. The limited setting emphasizes character-driven drama rather than visual spectacle. Through their conversations we learn how Jay’s information impacts not just the mission, but consideration of humanity’s long-term survival in a climate-altered world. Their enclosed environment becomes a metaphor for pressing questions that ultimately transcend the personal stakes of any one individual.

As the shadows of nightfall portraits the delicate balance between trust in creation and anxieties of the unknown, this piece stimulates perspective on how advanced technologies may reshape our future relations and responsibilities in an increasingly uncertain era.

Exploring What Truly Defines Us

This film delves into complex questions about what shapes human identity and destiny. While technology progresses at a rapid pace, the characters remind us that personal relationships and emotions still hold power over even the most well-crafted algorithms.

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Jay’s role underscores both reliance on AI as well as reasons for caution. Though meant to further space exploration, the AI evaluates scenarios in a way its creators never intended. This prompts reflection on how deeply humanity incorporates technology into daily life and large undertakings, along with who maintains control over advanced systems and long term impacts.

Beyond sci-fi premises, threads of love and loss run strongly. Anderson continues mourning his past partner yet finding purpose in new relationships, showing how grief can linger but life moves forward. Sam coping with this illustrates how jealousy arises from insecurity yet also drives relationships in complex ways.

Through their late night discussion bigger questions emerge. If humanity must leave Earth to survive, is ensuring mere survival sufficient or should quality of life matter too? How do short term tests weigh against visions spanning centuries? And who has right to decide the future of our entire species?

By linking personal intimacy with societal dependence on science, the film suggest what truly motivates and connects us even in future crises. While technological tools may serve short term needs, open communication and care for one another seem keys to fostering hope when all else changes. Perhaps in turbulent times, celebrating our shared humanity proves most essential for lighting any path ahead.

Making the Most of Modest Means

While limited to just a few rooms, superb direction makes the setting sing. Misty exteriors hint at looming disaster, and interiors feel refreshingly real versus sterile sci-fi sets. Within these walls complex personal struggles and societal dilemmas play out.

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Central here are the cast, who breathe life into multi-faceted individuals. Simon Merrells captures an astronaut pining for lost love yet committed to moving forward. Kemi-Bo Jacobs excels as his partner coping with insecurity yet focused on critical work. Both radiate an authentic partnership despite palpable tensions.

Hermione Corfield stands out as the earnest newcomer thrust into profound questions yet grasping their magnitude. She neatly ties scientific concepts to human impacts, keeping arrivals like us locked in. Darrell D’Silva makes the most of limited screentime to add nuance as the troubled former colleague.

Direction uses closeups during tense exchanges to full effect, pulling us straight into pulsating dilemmas. Wider shots of the high-tech home contrast cozily lit intimacy with its cold modern lines. This dichotomy mirrors conflicts at the story’s core between individual lives and massive societal change.

While plot gears may turn slowly, visual storytelling propels us ahead keenly. Sumptuous production design fleshes out a future we can envision yet one raising issues just as timeless as the stars. Together these elements immerse us completely in deciding humanity’s fate.

Futuristic Themes with Contemporary Resonance

A Million Days delves into weighty concepts such as climate change and humanity’s future beyond Earth. The story stimulates thinking on how cutting-edge science might progress and influence and what it means to be human.

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We’re quickly introduced to realities of environmental deterioration driving urgent plans to establish extra-terrestrial settlements. The Seed Programmed and AI assistant Jay represent technological avenues being explored today for future space exploration and self-sustaining colonies.

Jay’s analysis stretches millennia into the future, offering both promise and questions. While furthering goals of continued civilization, its vast calculations prioritize “life” over specific species. Jay’s expanding intelligence parallels real AI advances, leaving characters and viewers contemplating consequences as computers advance beyond initial constraints.

The personal drama stems from these societal and scientific dilemmas. Anderson grapples with loss and loyalty whiplashed between past love and present partner. Sam balances facilitating critical work with relationship security. Their questioning of Jay mirrors societal uncertainty towards powerfully intelligent creations lacking human qualities like loyalty or sacrifice.

Through the lens of climate change, space habitation and artificial intelligence, the film stimulates thought on our responsibility to the natural world, what we control in an evolving Technosphere and defining compassion when other kinds of wisdom emerge. Its contained setting and characters grounded in science and discovery anchor abstract notions in intimate human experience and choice.

While mainly set in a single location, A Million Days transports us among pressing issues of today and tomorrow. It crafts an intimate drama that nurtures curiosity about society’s future and our relationship with the non-human on a changing planet and beyond.

Captivating Conversations Despite Clunky Start

A Million Days grapples with huge philosophical questions but stumbles initially with exposition. The introduction overload is a tad cringe-worthy as Sam, Anderson and Charlie mechanically lay out concepts and stakes. However, once the necessary context is provided, the script thankfully shifts focus.

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Where discourse dominates, it risks bogging down but credit is due here for crafting meaty exchanges that stimulate thought. The writers explore profound futuristic notions through intimate human lenses, grounded in these characters’ motivations. We grasp grand cosmological ideas through personal impacts – Anderson’s love and loss, Sam’s insecurity.

Engrossing discussions are certainly the film’s strength, tapping imagination as possibilities proliferate. But purely talkative storytelling leaves room for visual enhancement. More artistic flourishes might have balanced information dumps, letting visuals reveal what words struggle to.

Later pacing improves as revelations fuel tension. But smoothing the entry point could have sped passage into this compelling core. Overall, concepts stimulates interest despite stilted start. Where conversation captivates, seeing may impact even more. Perhaps further films will learn from both successes and missed opportunities here.

Probing Questions in a Modest Package

A Million Days accomplishes a great deal in its brief running time. Within a single location, it stimulates thoughtful discussion about humanity’s path forward. The film crafts a intimate drama that explores profound concepts through its characters’ debates.

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Mitch Jenkins’ film takes its confined rural setting and uses it as a launchpad. From this modest stage, it contemplates our species’ role in the cosmos and how technology might reshape it. Heavy topics are woven into personal stakes, as the crew weighs their mission against revelations from their super intelligent creation.

Yet for all the enormous scope of its questions, A Million Days remains rooted in its characters. Their lively exchanges probe the implications of discovery. Through lively back-and-forth, big ideas are broken down accessibly. We grasp the tangled knots humanity may face through these individuals’ perspectives and priorities.

The limited backdrop could have restricted its scope. Instead, the film uses it to focus fully on stimulating conversation. Within a single location unfolds a examination of our future that remains thoughtful yet engrossing. A Million Days proves a small package can carry much intellectual food for thought by skillfully crafting intriguing philosophical discussions.

The Review

A Million Days

7 Score

While its script stumbles in places, A Million Days succeeds in its ambitions. Within confined quarters, it incubates provocative discourse about technology's role in our destiny among the stars. Jenkins crafts a thoughtful yet nimble film that unpacks immense philosophical implications through intimate character drama. Not without flaws, it remains an engaging thought experiment that lingers in the mind.

PROS

  • Ambitious in scope of ideas examined despite small budget
  • Stimulating philosophical discussions and debates throughout
  • Exploration of technology's impact on humanity's future
  • Intimate characterizations that ground complex concepts
  • Provokes thoughtful contemplation long after viewing

CONS

  • Exposition in early scenes is clunky and heavy-handed
  • Narrative can be frustratingly ambiguous at times
  • Pacing slackens when talkiness overtakes visual storytelling
  • Minor subplots and characters feel distractingly underdeveloped

Review Breakdown

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