Faye is a Londoner who feels ignored by husband, family and colleagues and dreams of more in her life. She doesn't do anything towards that goal and her story would have probably been boring and unchanging if not for her becoming the winner of "seat 25" on an interplanetary expedition to Mars. So now that this extraordinary event has put everything into perspective... nothing changes. It's an hour and a half of Faye still getting ignored and being unable to express any thought or emotion in a way that the others can understand. Even her getting closer to one of the loner colleagues at her work and talking to him is a sham, since he is saying something and she understands something else entirely.
It is a movie about alienation, about people living around other people, not with them, about not being able to communicate in any meaningful way. This, it presents well. I wish, though, that the film would not have used a trip to Mars as the emotional trigger and that it would have actually triggered something other than depression! As such, I feel suckered in to see something about Mars and getting a story about the inner life of a woman in London (plus narration). Had I known that, I would probably have not watched it.
It is a movie about alienation, about people living around other people, not with them, about not being able to communicate in any meaningful way. This, it presents well. I wish, though, that the film would not have used a trip to Mars as the emotional trigger and that it would have actually triggered something other than depression! As such, I feel suckered in to see something about Mars and getting a story about the inner life of a woman in London (plus narration). Had I known that, I would probably have not watched it.