You and your two fellow astronauts are on your way to Mars when you uncover a stowaway in your spaceship. His mere presence means there won’t be enough oxygen for anyone to survive the journey. You toss him out the spaceship, of course. But what if that stowaway is there by accident – through absolutely no fault of his own? Would you still throw him out, though perhaps feel extra bad about it?
That, without giving too much of the plot away, is the moral dilemma on which the recent Netflix film ‘Stowaway’ is built. It’s an enjoyable watch, especially if you are into the kind of old school science fiction that involves those tense but fairly long scenes of someone just walking on the outside of a spaceship in a spacesuit. Crucially, as films go, it deals with its moral dilemma fairly thoughtfully.
You and your two fellow astronauts are on your way to Mars when you uncover a stowaway in your spaceship. His mere presence means there won’t be
enough
oxygen for anyone to survive the journey. You toss him out the spaceship,
of course
.
But
what if that stowaway is there by accident
–
through
absolutely
no fault of his
own
? Would you
still
throw him out, though perhaps feel extra
bad
about it?
That, without giving too much of the plot away, is the moral dilemma on which the recent Netflix film ‘Stowaway’
is built
. It’s an enjoyable
watch
,
especially
if you are into the kind of
old
school science fiction that involves those tense
but
fairly
long scenes of someone
just
walking on the outside of a spaceship in a spacesuit.
Crucially
, as films go, it deals with its moral dilemma
fairly
thoughtfully
.