Per Aspera ad Astra

[Drunk Monk]

Per Aspera Ad Astra

This was a Chinese new year release that got good buzz. It’s part of the new wave Sci fi coming out of PRC like Three Body Problem. This is a bit more goofy, until it gets serious. A spaceship on a long term colonization mission are in hyper sleep, aided by an ai dream scape to keep their brains active. But something goes awry on the ship and a goofy tech gets waken. The problem escalates beyond him and he has to wake the captain hawtty but to do so, he must enter the ai dream scape to get her. Spaceship problems escalate so more crew needs to be waken meaning more trips into the ai dreamscape. Then it gets crazy, crazy clown crazy.

This goes from space drama to light humor to poignant secret pasts to awesome dreamscapes from scene to scene. It’s gets thoughtprovoking like good sci fi should but not cumbersome so, falling back to lighthearted humor and elaborate cgi visuals. It worked for me.

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