![]() The plot starts with the premise that once you have experienced the view from space, things back on earth become pale in both size and significance.Īfter she returns from her flight, Lucy is invited to join the “Club,” the relatively small circle of astronauts who have already been in space. The space geek in me immediately puts on her astronaut-training-aerospace-engineer-technical-movie-critic hat (yes, I just made that a thing) before I realize it is not that kind of space movie. The movie, directed by author and producer Noah Hawley, opens with a scene of the protagonist, Lucy (played by Natalie Portman), peacefully floating in a spacesuit outside the International Space Station, leisurely enjoying a breathtaking view of her home planet at night. ![]() She was arrested at the scene, where she was allegedly wearing highly absorbent space diapers to facilitate the 900-mile drive. ![]() To be fair, this should not be all that surprising, based as the story is on the life of former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, famous for driving from Houston to Orlando in 2007 in an attempt to assault and kidnap her fellow astronaut boyfriend’s new love interest. The trailer for the newly released Fox Searchlight movie Lucy in the Sky entices viewers with the potential to explore some of life’s biggest questions about both inner and outer space, but instead transforms itself into a cable TV style docudrama about obsessive love triangles.
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