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I was really looking forward to this film as it had a really good plot that could explore the survival struggle of a human in isolation, loneliness, fear and uncertainty. Unfortunately, the film did not do any of these; we watched a badass who was stuck on Mars get back to earth.

Since the very beginning, it felt as if the hero knew he would survive, and the theme of fear and isolation was never explored by the director. In the first half of the film, the only time we see fear is by an explosion of the artificial farm, there is also the potato counting scene when there is a storm. Both of which are extreme, showy ways of introducing fear; however under isolation like that, every moment would be full of uncertainty, and this can be explored without using explosions. It is difficult to explore these emotions with a single character, but that is what the story requires. "Cast Away" does a very good job of this. In Interstellar, one line of Matt Damon very successfully demonstrated this "You don't know how good it feels to see someone's face again."; whereas in The Martian, the whole movie was not able to explore the mental state of the character.

I was also expecting to get a better feeling of being space, the dead silence and how small the humans are. This was also not demonstrated well, something which Interstellar did very well, both visually and audio-wise.

The movie is not completely bad though; it was funny and the last scene where he meets the crew built up very well with elements of fear and uncertainty. The way he reached the commander was also very breathtaking.

In my opinion, the film disrespects the human survival struggle by taking it so lightly, poor job from Ridley Scott. Also note this; the idea of colonizing space is introduced in this movie.

OK I did not understand what was going on when I watched the movie just like everyone else.. But there was a part that I liked a lot, Renee's or any woman's real story of escape.

Renee (or the blonde woman) is forced to be one Dick Laurent's girls because of her feminine attractiveness. She is is forced to strip tease with a gun pointing to her head, and to have sex. The way that she escapes from this faith is interesting, she uses her feminine attractiveness which put her in that situation, this time to get out. She teases Andy and convinces him with her female attractiveness. The techniques she uses are very clever and she is really calm in most of the situations. These are the guns of a woman (or womanity) under male dominance (or manity), and she has to be insidious if she wants to escape. Yet she is not to be owned as she tells Andy.

I think this is a very real story.

It was a very well written story with very well developed characters. You could see that all of the characters had a story, they were all real, they all had reasons and all of them contributed to the story. The scenarist made us believe the characters, great job by Sırrı Sureyya! For example, the story of the mother who tried to send her child to Italy (sorry I don't remember the names), her story was very well developed and we could understand why she would do such an act. We felt her feelings that she wanted a better life for her child. Same thing for the story of Dona and Saffet, it developed realistically. The child characters were not left out, they all contributed to the story, for ex the boy who kept finding solutions and the girl who gave Hazan a birthday gift which was sent to her by her no-longer-living father. Great acting by Demet Akbağ. I also liked the acting of Saffet and Dona.

What I did not like about this story was a few of the songs ın the soundtrack list and the final twist at the airport which was very sudden and which was not shown clearly to us. Even if we get the idea, I would like to see a bit more about the twist which saved our characters.