Aniara is a Swedish film based on an epic poem from 1956 about a huge spaceship carrying people from a dying Earth to Mars but after an accident it goes way off course. While High Life has a small functional spaceship, Aniara is like a combination of hotel and shopping mall (like a cruise ship but much larger). The passengers are mostly white, middle-class families. The protagonist, calling herself MR, is a Mimarobe, a crew member in charge of a machine called the Mima that reads minds and replays favourite memories to the passengers to relieve anxiety.
Aniara (the film) is divided into titled chapters that chart the stages that the passengers and crew go through in response to the vastly extended voyage. Each stage is illustrated by a subplot or some scenes mostly involving MR and others such as her roommates or the captain. This dystopian progression takes precedence over plot or characters so we don't know them or feel any more attached to them than we do to Star Trek's redshirts. The glossy surroundings also distance us from their predicament. Though there is plenty to think about with the various stages and strategies that the crew and passengers use to cope with the situation, which is an analogy for the fate of our planet.
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Ian's rating 2.5/5
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