The autumn release "The Martian" that stars Matt Damon, as Mark Watney, is based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir.

As reported by CNN, the movie is about a stranded astronaut's survival. He only got a good month of ration to live and the next Mars mission is not due for another four years.

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Watney's character, a botanist by profession, is optimistic. Thus, he does everything from growing potatoes from the ones he has got using homemade manure to keep his sanity through the 1970s disco music collection left behind by one of his former astronauts.

With Watney's solitariness and claustrophobia, his situation is broken up by some events that were happening back on Earth. His tragedy has been mourned by the public. However, a United States Space Agency (NASA) technician noticed movements on Mars' surface, which are done by Watney, so communication then was re-established.

The stranded astronaut is elated and assessments were made to launch for a rescue mission. Would it be right to risk five lives to save one life on Mars? His colleagues are willing to take it to attempt the rescue.

The novel's author heavily described the technical assessments of oxygen and food supplies as well as mechanical capabilities, the flight duration and the interplanetary travel's physics. These details are respected in the movie through the screenwriter Drew Goddard.

Overall, "The Martian" is a very good movie, according to The Guardian. It is said to be the first genuine Mars movie, which attempts to be realistic and grapples with human beings' problems of exploring the Red Planet, even though with a number of technical mistakes. Some of its flaws are listed as follows:

         * The storm in the movie does not in reality knock people down even though one can fly a kite in it.

         * The spacecraft is not a "giant science-fiction spaceship" that is sent to Mars.

        * Mars has only about one third of the Earth's gravity that makes explorers wear heavy space suit in which climbing the ladder would not have been much effort as they seem to portray in the movie.

          * Water is available in Mars, and there was no need to make water as Watney does in the movie.

 

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