Love

Recently I've watched a movie called Love. It came with an album that I bought from Angels and Airwaves. They are an alternative-rock band that started in 2005. Their music is very instrumental but still uses the core needs of guitars, bases, and awesome drumming. Here is a link to one of their music videos based on the movie.

In this movie called Love, it starts off with a Union soldier, Captain Lee Briggs during the American civil war. He was the sole survivor of countless battalions that fell to the Confederacy. It turns out, the place where he was stationed was going to be over-runned like his previous days in the war. So the general called Briggs into his den. He told them they discovered something extraordinary; a life changing event. The general told Briggs he wanted him to go see this discovery. And so Captain Lee Briggs set off to the west to find what was in the desert.

Then, the movie jumps ahead in the year of 2038.  It showed astronaut named Lee Miller. He was one of the first people to go back into space after the shuttle program at NASA was shut down. During his mission he was alone and giving feedback to Houston. Then one day Houston sends Miller some files and asks for a future coordinates. After complying, Miller starts to get suspicious and asks why they would need it. Houston responds back and tells him it's just for protocol.

Shortly after, Miller's worst fear comes about. He lost communication with Houston. He tries for days to reestablish the communication but he is unable to get a respond from Houston. With this crisis on his hands he is slowly going crazy and tries his best to remain sane. Days go by and over time he has to convert all of his powers in the space station to life support so he can live.

Over the movie you see him start to hallucinate and play cards with himself. He puts paper on the small rounded windows and draws on them. His face starts to become full with a beard and his hair grows long. Then, he does the unthinkable. He makes a recording of himself and how long he has been in space. He says he has been alone for 6 years and lost communication with everyone. He makes a statement saying, "I would rather rest on Earth than to stay up here alone." During this time it shows him holding onto the line that ties him to the space station. He looks at the glowing blue water of Earth and closes his eyes. His hands grip the hook getting ready to release. Then suddenly, he pulls his hands away and opens his eyes. He realized he couldn't do it.

After coming back inside, time goes on again and while laying down looking at the white piece of paper he drew pictures on you hear static on the radio. Your heart begins to race as you hear exactly what you and Miller wanted to hear. Sounds of life. He quickly rips off the paper and looks outside only to see what looks to be a giant black building floating in space. He races to communications and stares at the screen. Then the monitor initiates the docking procedures.

Miller then crawls through the cushioned path to get into the mystery building. He gets inside and what he sees is a bunch of different interior designed rooms. Some look to be as if it came from the 1900s and others from a spectacular cathedral. Then, he gets to a room with a little TV and a microphone with a red button on it that you push to talk. He pushes the red button. A recoding starts to play and tells him all about what happened and why he had to stay up there alone.

However, I am not going to spoil the ending. If you are curious and want to know what happened then you're going to have to watch the movie. It's an independent kind of film and is slow but it really gets under your skin and makes you think about everything.

Here's a little preview of the movie for you though.

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