The entire movie is shot quite beautifully, with the expansiveness of space taking centre stage. However the acting and general script is pretty bad. The storyline is quite good, although there are one or two things that make absolutely no sense to me!
SPOILER: In terms of the storyline, this may seem obvious, but nobody else has mentioned it:
The movie is entirely in German, but all the way through the movie there seems to be Chinese symbols on the ships and there is also a Chinese object shown over the dining table a number of times. The movie is basically orientated around the illegal movement of migrants from China to the west and has a dozen hidden messages scattered throughout the storyline.
The highly populated and unpleasant space station above earth is the source of the migrants (essentially the Chinese slums). The people on the space station were told (or fooled) into thinking that things would be better on the space station (the slums) then it is on Earth (the Chinese countryside). The perfect and beautiful planet everyone wants to go to (as shown by migrants in their video messages) is called Rhea (the west).
The people on the space station work terrible jobs to get enough money to go to this paradise planet (the west). However it transpires that once the main character gets to the planet Rhea (the west), she discovers that it is a virtual simulation within a floating structure and all the people there have been fooled into believing they are living on a paradise planet. Essentially the movie is implying that the west is in fact fake and not what it seems, but the migrants living there are blinded to that fact. It also implies that the migrants are not at fault for illegal migration because they have been fooled by large corporations with the promise of a better life on Rhea (the west).
It then transpires that Earth is in fact very habitable with plenty of vegetation so the main character tells everyone on the space station (the slums) to instead go back to Earth (the countryside) and make a living there. The main character wants to bring her sister out of the simulation (the west) and back to Earth (the Chinese countryside) but her body has been degraded by living too long in the simulation (the west). Therefore the main character cuts off all communication with her by destroying the antenna (the internet) in order to prevent more people from the space station (the slums) from going to Rhea (the west). A child (a new generation) is rescued from the cargo ship and brought back to Earth (the Chinese countryside) to begin a new life that the previous generation had abandoned.
There may even be more hints at this message but I think I covered quite a bit in this. Overall I would suggest watching it.
SPOILER: In terms of the storyline, this may seem obvious, but nobody else has mentioned it:
The movie is entirely in German, but all the way through the movie there seems to be Chinese symbols on the ships and there is also a Chinese object shown over the dining table a number of times. The movie is basically orientated around the illegal movement of migrants from China to the west and has a dozen hidden messages scattered throughout the storyline.
The highly populated and unpleasant space station above earth is the source of the migrants (essentially the Chinese slums). The people on the space station were told (or fooled) into thinking that things would be better on the space station (the slums) then it is on Earth (the Chinese countryside). The perfect and beautiful planet everyone wants to go to (as shown by migrants in their video messages) is called Rhea (the west).
The people on the space station work terrible jobs to get enough money to go to this paradise planet (the west). However it transpires that once the main character gets to the planet Rhea (the west), she discovers that it is a virtual simulation within a floating structure and all the people there have been fooled into believing they are living on a paradise planet. Essentially the movie is implying that the west is in fact fake and not what it seems, but the migrants living there are blinded to that fact. It also implies that the migrants are not at fault for illegal migration because they have been fooled by large corporations with the promise of a better life on Rhea (the west).
It then transpires that Earth is in fact very habitable with plenty of vegetation so the main character tells everyone on the space station (the slums) to instead go back to Earth (the countryside) and make a living there. The main character wants to bring her sister out of the simulation (the west) and back to Earth (the Chinese countryside) but her body has been degraded by living too long in the simulation (the west). Therefore the main character cuts off all communication with her by destroying the antenna (the internet) in order to prevent more people from the space station (the slums) from going to Rhea (the west). A child (a new generation) is rescued from the cargo ship and brought back to Earth (the Chinese countryside) to begin a new life that the previous generation had abandoned.
There may even be more hints at this message but I think I covered quite a bit in this. Overall I would suggest watching it.