Spaceman (2024, March; Netflix)
Why does Hanuš the space-spider never call Janus the Czech cosmonaut, Janus? And Hanuš instead keeps calling Janus “skinny man”? I don’t protest this about the movie. No, I think I love it.
Also I love how all the dialogue feels translated. As if it’s not natively written in English. The post-neo-Soviet vibe, it fits the narrative so well.
In fact I think I’d love watching the movie with Czech audio and English subtitles. I wonder if that’s possible… I suppose it’s subtle but it would require me hunting for the Czech audio, which I’m 99% sure exists.
I also love the movie’s subtext-dialogue about the notions of love, relationship, loneliness, attachment, self-centeredness, touch, beginning & end, cosmology, and so on and so forth.
So much to think about. It’s like, I myself had to watch this in a couple of sittings, and I just had to watch it like two, three times to catch what I want to catch out of it…