![]() ![]() But Álex, still traumatized by the ghosts of his own past, decides some days later after to meet Helena break all rules and reveal her the truth: that she is part of a secret experiment to test the effects in the human body of an elongated space travel, and that she was offered by her fathers as well another babies, in the hope to runaway from a progressively more polluted and radioactive planet Earth. Arriving to a space station for maintenance works, Helena meets Álex, the repairman, falling in love with him quickly. Thanks to Netflix I didn't have to go out of my way to see this, so I don't feel that I can hold much against it.Synopsis: Helena is a young girl who spent all her life in a space pod just after her birth, traveling from Earth to a distant planet where she will reunite with others space colonials, with the voice of the on-board computer as only one company. At 95 minutes it seems scrupulous about not overstaying its welcome, even if it strikes you a Twilight Zone episode opened out and padded to feature length. The romance angle is a little much, taking the ending almost to a fairy-tale level, but then again, this is, for all its trendy pessimism, a fantasy film that ends on an odd note of reconciliation, given the seemingly unforgivable ruthlessness the head scientist showed earlier in the picture. ![]() But the lead actors put it over with convincing displays of moral indignation, with Gonzalez adding a level of guilty torment over his role in a past failed experiment. I've probably now made it sound like a rather conventional movie, and I suppose it is that, superficially speaking. Órbita 9 is ultimately more of a thriller than an all-out sci-fi film, but the sort of dystopia that forms its backdrop does tend to lend itself to thriller plots. Don't get the reasoning for monitoring birth in the sim though. In the very final scene, the girl looks back at her parents, and we can see her over one of their shoulders. It may not surprise you to learn that Alex has some alarming secrets, and that his interaction with Helena will put both people in danger as they edge toward revolt against a manipulative government's plans. It shows that it's Orbiter 9, Hugo looks older, and you can hear countdowns and rockets launching in the background. Orbiter 9 2017 movie#Five minutes in you can guess the direction the picture will take, but your movie brain should tell you that that's probably too soon to jump to conclusions. Alex is the first human being other than her parents that she's ever seen. He has only 50 hours of "autonomy" to do the job after that, Helena will have another 20 years on her own before she reaches her destination. ![]() At last, Alex the engineer (Alex Gonzalez) arrives to fix the problem. Stalled by an oxygen malfunction, she has waited for a repair ship for three years since her parents apparently sacrificed themselves to extend her oxygen supply. A young Spanish woman, Helena (Clara Lago) is the sole crewmember of one of the family-sized colony ships. This isn't some implausible chauvinism on the part of writer-director Hatem Khraiche, as he tells us eventually that Spain is just one of four countries involved in the preparation of pioneer voyages to the planet Celeste, a goldilocks world that offers the only hope of survival for the people of an increasingly polluted Earth. ![]() For an Anglophone moviegoer it's a novelty to see space exploration carried out in Spanish. ![]()
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