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People are voting emotionally.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Blistering performances.

First time director William Eubank made this very low budget feature that stars Gunner Wright as an astronaut stranded on a space station orbiting earth.The film starts during the American civil war where a soldier discovers something, maybe remnants of a spacecraft. We also have excerpts of various interviews as the film progresses, a device that breaks up the monotony of the sole cast member in the space station.It is also serves a back-story of an ark that crash landed during the civil war era USA and it seems to have interviewed various people.The main story though is the astronaut who is left isolated after he loses communication with mission control. It seems some incident has happened on earth and it looks like he is on his own and maybe the only human alive.The astronaut slowly disintegrates with his lack of contact with another person and left wondering what has happened on earth. He has a yearning to connect, to connect with someone else hence the film title, Love.The low budget of Love and the fact that he has the solo cast member in space plus a computer voice reminds you of Moon with the space station aesthetics giving you the visual reminder of 2001: A Space Odyssey.Conceptually I was impressed with the film even though the film is rather cloudy and ambiguous and I do not pretend that I understood it all.What the director has done with the minuscule budget is breathtaking and has to be applauded. Apparently, the space station was constructed in Eubank's parents yard.

I can cope with the erratic narrative, I can cope with it being slow, I can even cope with it being essentially a pretentious load of twaddle. But I can't cope with a film that has very high production values and yet has gravity on the non rotating International Space Station (not a new magic one, the one up there now). And not accidental gravity that they tried to cover up in the film, but if you look carefully you can spot it. No, it had set pieces that relied on having gravity. I spent ages thinking that it must be relevant to the plot because it meant he wasn't really in space. Nope, it was just unforgivably bad production. Unforgivable because of the superb production of everything else. It is such a shame because recently there have been a few films such as Gravity (ha!), Interstellar and The Martian, that have moved away from the Star Wars / Star Trek sort of "fantasy" SciFi toward a real SciFi, and this tries to base itself in reality too but every scene in the ISS is a form of mental torture.

I watched the movie due to the synopsis on Netflix and the awards it displayed. Have you ever seen a painting that looks like a dog ate a box of Crayola crowns then threw up on a canvas? Then a bunch of art critics rave over the painting as "insightful" and "deep" and "awe inspiring"? Then you find yourself scratching your head and wondering if you're in the midst of a live reenactment of "The Emperor Has No Clothes". The painting is clearly garbage, but no one wants to speak up and say so because they don't want to be seen as an imbecile by the art community. That's what we have with this movie. This should have been a 10 minute short. So much of it is just a waste of time. Well, the guy is in a space station all by himself. He gets lonely. We don't need an hour of him being lonely to get that point. In the end the parts and pieces are not tied together. Some reviewers say it does. *** Contains Spoilers *****For example, there is an Ark containing human knowledge and the thoughts and memories of certain humans. The Civil War soldier stumbled on it back in the 1860's. How did it travel back in time? How did it get built in the first place? Did humans build it knowing the end of mankind was near? If so, why did they leave the guy on the space station?Apparently the humans on Earth have all died. We can assume it was due to a war, but we don't know. In the end of the movie it appears that he found out he was rescued by aliens. Ironically, the message he receives is that in order to survive humans need to form a connection with another human being (Love). But, the aliens don't provide him with any kind of interaction. He's all by himself with an alien sending messages telepathically. I assume it's telepathically because the movie does a horrible job at conveying this message. So the entire point of the movie is that he is the last human being alive, aliens have found him, aliens have told him humans need a bond of love with others to survive, but the aliens leave him all alone. To me that's the ultimate form of torture. Well, the next to the ultimate form of torture. The true ultimate torture is sitting through this movie.

It started with an incorrect synopsis on Netflix, that Lee found a way to travel through time. At first that made the most sense, since it showed civil war combat at the beginning, which was by far the best part of the movie. Then began the downward spiral into nonsensical, grossly incorrect ISS imitations. At first I told myself it is simply low-budget, they didn't want to CGI weightlessness. It was interesting to try to piece together his character through the snippets of history they show you. It was still irritating to see him walking around on his feet. But for me, the worst part is they show him doing SO MANY gravity-required tasks. Fine, you don't know how to set up a weightless harness. But you don't need to continually show that gravity exists! Just hide it a bit! Drinking water from a bottle, showing it slosh around? Why not just put water in a ziploc baggie to imitate space drinks? JOGGING ON A TREADMILL? Just add some exercise bands to tie him down to look like actual space treadmill running. PUSHUPS? Laying in a twin bed with sheets? Just use a sleeping bag strapped to the wall. COME ON! Jesus, has the writer/director ever seen a space movie? This is simple, cheap stuff. No creativity.The last scene for me was when he woke up to smoke. That was pretty exciting, but then they totally botched it. He jumps up, all intense, runs for his mask, which was a neat addition. Then he grabs one of those plastic clamps you get at lowes... proceeds use it on a pipe and it makes a ratchet sound... WTF? then the pipe falls loose and sucks up the smoke. Wait... no fire? This movie can't really be so pretentious that it wants you to think he hallucinated smoke to vacuum up, but no fire? It literally makes no sense. And I tried my hardest to give it artistic liberty, but there was just far too many lazy flaws in editing and basic concepts.I could not see past the slews of glaring flaws. I did however like how eerie it was to have the control panel light up with strange interference sounds. If it focused on that aspect, and less on random cuts to blurry video tapes and the wall of $10 walmart fans, it would have been a neat movie.