Oblivion (film)

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Movie
German title Oblivion
Original title Oblivion
Oblivion-2013-Movie-Title.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Joseph Kosinski
script Joseph Kosinski,
Karl Gajdusek ,
Michael Arndt
production Joseph Kosinski,
Peter Chernin ,
Dylan Clark ,
Duncan Henderson ,
Barry Levine
music Anthony Gonzalez,
M83
camera Claudio Miranda
cut Richard Francis-Bruce
occupation
synchronization

Oblivion ( English / əˈblɪvɪən / for forgetting , in oblivion ) is an American science fiction film from 2013 , which was directed by Joseph Kosinski . In a post-apocalyptic scenario, the earth is devastated by a war between humans and aliens and is nearly uninhabitable. Only a few drones and technicians are still there to oversee the mining of important resources.

The main roles are played by Tom Cruise , Andrea Riseborough , Olga Kurylenko and Morgan Freeman . The film opened in German cinemas on April 11, 2013.

action

In the year 2077 the earth is uninhabitable and depopulated after a war with aliens, the so-called looters , who had attacked the earth 60 years earlier. During the war, the aliens destroyed the moon , causing a number of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis . Large parts of humanity were thereby wiped out. This was followed by an invasion, which the people were able to repel through the use of nuclear weapons , but the planet was completely devastated and largely irradiated ; the survivors were relocated to Saturn's moon Titan and a space station that is in orbit around the earth and is called Tet because of its tetrahedral shape . Only a handful of people have remained on the surface of the earth and, under the command of Tet , are concerned with the extraction of their resources.

The drone fitter Tech-49 Jack Harper and his partner Victoria, called Vika, live as a couple in the remote control tower 49. Jack is responsible for repairing combat drones; these serve to protect the huge deuterium stores that draw hydrogen from the sea and thus ensure the energy supply for Tet and the people on Titan. Protection is necessary as some scattered looters still live on earth and are sabotaging the extraction of resources. From the tower, Vika coordinates Jack's field missions, which he undertakes with his aircraft, and warns him of impending dangers from looters . She maintains contact with the space station through a commander named Sally. However, the constellation also creates tension: Jack does not want to let go of the earth and therefore occasionally disregards the regulations. Vika, however, behaves according to the regulations; their goal is the end of working hours on earth in two weeks, which is to be rewarded with a life on Titan. Both memories have been duly erased so that enemies cannot get any information if they are captured. However, Jack is reminded by his subconscious time and again of scenes from the time before the alien attack, in which an unknown woman appears.

During one of his missions, Jack falls into a trap of the looters and can only save himself with the unexpected help of a combat drone. He notices a change in the behavior of the looters , who apparently no longer want to kill him, but rather want to take him prisoner.

The next morning, Jack and Vika are awakened by the explosion of a deuterium extractor, the result of another attack by the looters . During a patrol flight, Jack watches a spaceship crash. Its landing point is on coordinates that were previously sent by a looter signal. When Jack reaches the crash site, he finds surviving people in sleeping pods . However, incoming combat drones kill them. Jack can only save one of the survivors by getting in the way of a drone. The rescued woman is called Julia and is the woman from Jack's dreams. She knows him by name, even though she spent 60 years in the sleeping capsule in what is known as delta sleep . She hasn't aged in the process. Vika and Jack take care of her medically on the control tower. However, it quickly becomes clear that Vika sees her as a rival. Julia persuades Jack to rescue her flight recorder against Vika's will. When they look at the crash site of the spaceship, they are overpowered and captured by looters .

In their underground hiding place, the looters reveal their true identity to their prisoners: They are not aliens, but people who have set themselves the goal of destroying the Tet space station . Their strange appearance comes from the use of camouflage technology that they use to fool the drones. These are not programmed to kill aliens, but humans. Jack, who as a technician is familiar with combat drones, is now supposed to reprogram a hijacked combat drone so that it flies a thermonuclear explosive device, consisting of a plutonium reactor and 10 fuel cells, to Tet to blow up the space station. The reactor comes from the spaceship that Julia brought to earth and whose landing was arranged by the looters because they need its weapons-grade plutonium. Jack refuses to reprogram the drone. Thereupon he is dismissed by the leader, Malcolm Beech, with the advice that he should search for the truth in the forbidden zones, the allegedly irradiated areas that surround Jack's operational area.

Julia reveals to Jack that she is his wife. The two were supposed to go on a space flight together as astronauts 60 years ago to Saturn's moon Titan, but this did not take place because an alien spaceship - the Tet - was approaching Earth and they were supposed to explore it instead. Jack starts to remember Julia. Vika notices this; out of jealousy and in order not to endanger her transit to Titan, she reports Jack to the headquarters. A few moments later, she is killed by a drone that was in the control tower for repairs. Before the drone can kill Jack, Julia shoots it down. Sally from the command center describes Vika's killing to Jack as a technical error. She orders him to take Julia to Tet .

Jack and Julia flee and are followed a short time later by three drones. They can take out two of the drones, but their aircraft will be damaged and they will have to make an emergency landing in a desert that is in the alleged radiation zone. They are surprised to find that they can survive without harm instead of being instantly burned internally as they have been taught. The last drone crashes not far from them and is found shortly afterwards by another technician in whose area the drone is apparently located. Jack finds out that he and the other tech , Tech-52 , are identical looking clones . The no less surprised Tech-52 holds Jack in check with his weapon. When he sees Julia, memories of her also emerge from his subconscious. Jack uses this moment of distraction to attack Tech-52 . In the scuffle, in which the other Jack wants to prevent the drone from being destroyed, a shot is fired, wounding Julia. Jack overpowers Tech-52 and uses its ship to retrieve medical equipment from its control tower, number 52. Here he meets a clone of Vika, who thinks he is "her" Jack and therefore lets him go.

After Julia's medical care, Jack takes her to an idyllic spot by a lake that he discovered some time ago, stocked with all sorts of found souvenirs, and occasionally visited secretly alone. Here Julia and Jack get closer. He decides to go back to the resisting people and help them. Julia accompanies him.

Malcolm Beech now tells them the whole truth: 60 years ago the alien spaceship Tet captured the astronaut Jack Harper and his co-pilot Victoria and cloned them. It later destroyed the moon and then sent invading forces from thousands of Jack and Vika's clones to Earth. For more than 50 years now, the spaceship has been withdrawing its resources from the earth with the help of clones. There is no human refuge in orbit or on Titan. Surviving humans hide from the drones on earth, and the allegedly irradiated, uninhabitable areas are in truth the competence areas of the other clones. Despite the concerns of his colleague Sykes, Beech had consciously selected Jack-49 and none of the other Jack clones for the sabotage mission and had them captured because Jack-49 had secretly picked up relics from bygone times during his missions and thus nostalgic memories of them Seems to have time before the alien attack.

Jack now helps program the captured drone with the explosive device. When it was about to start, the resistance fighters' hideout was attacked by more drones. The attack can be repulsed with high losses, but the drone destined for the bomb is destroyed. Jack therefore decides to take the bomb with his aircraft to the command station, which Tet also allows , since Jack has orders to deliver the survivors of the spaceship there anyway. During the flight he listens to the voice log of the retrieved flight recorder. This tells him that the astronaut Jack Harper and his team, which included his co-pilot Vika and his wife Julia, were commissioned to explore the Tet object 60 years ago . When her spaceship was involuntarily attracted to the object , he wanted to save Julia and the rest of the crew, who were in cold sleep, and at the last moment disconnected the sleep module, which then went into orbit and waited there for a landing signal.

Arriving at Tet , Jack reveals to Sally, his central command unit, who turns out to be a machine creature and is modeled on NASA's Capcom at the time , that he brought the seriously injured Malcolm Beech with him instead of Julia. Together they sacrifice themselves and ignite the nuclear weapon that destroys the alien spaceship. The drones on earth that are attacking people's hiding places are now no longer guided and crash.

Three years later, Julia lives in the idyllic place by the lake where Jack-49 left her before his flight to Tet . She has a two year old daughter whose father is Jack-49. The surviving humans who once fought the aliens appear there, led by Sykes; likewise the clone Jack-52, who after meeting Julia and Jack-49 searched for the place by the lake for three years.

background

The film is based on the concept of an unfinished graphic novel by Kosinski and Arvid Nelson . According to Kosinski, the choice of this medium was born out of necessity, since he could not hire a scriptwriter during the 2007/08 Writers Guild of America strike . After finding a production company for the film, there was no longer any need for him to finish the graphic novel.

In August 2010, Disney , who had also produced Kosinski's first directorial work Tron: Legacy , acquired the rights for the film adaptation . Universal Pictures later acquired the film rights and began producing the film in 2012.

The shooting took place from March 12, 2012 to July 14, 2012 in Iceland. The film's budget is estimated at $ 120 million. The film grossed over $ 286 million worldwide.

Oblivion is the first film that is mixed directly in the original version using the new Dolby Atmos surround sound technology and in which the 5.1 and 7.1 sound is derived from the Atmos sound.

Soundtrack

The score was released on April 9, 2013 under the name Oblivion - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and was written by Joseph Trapanese in collaboration with Anthony Gonzales ( M83 ). The publisher is Back Lot Music ( Universal ).

No. title length
1. Jack's Dream 01:22
2. Waking up 04:09
3. Tech 49 05:58
4th StarWaves 03:41
5. Odyssey Rescue 04:08
6th Earth 2077 02:22
7th Losing Control 03:56
8th. Canyon Battle 05:57
9. Radiation Zone 04:11
10. You Can't Save Her 04:56
11. Raven Rock 04:33
12. I'm sending you away 05:38
13. Ashes of Our Fathers 03:30
14th Temples of Our Gods 03:14
15th Fearful odds 03:09
16. Undimmed by Time, Unbound by Death 02:26
17th Oblivion (feat. Susanne Sundfør ) 05:56

synchronization

role Actress German dubbing voice
Jack Harper Tom Cruise Patrick Winczewski
Malcolm Beech Morgan Freeman Klaus Sunshine
Julia Rusakova Harper Olga Kurylenko Julia Kaufmann
Victoria "Vika" Olsen Andrea Riseborough Luise Helm
Sykes Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Peter Flechtner
Sally Melissa Leo Silke Matthias

reception

Financial success

Outside the US, Oblivion usually started on April 10, 11, and 12, 2013 and in the US on April 19.

On the opening weekend, the film grossed US $ 37.05 million in 3,783 cinemas in the US and US $ 60.42 million outside the US, although the film had not yet been released in Japan (premiere on May 31, 2013).

The film has grossed approximately $ 286 million worldwide with a production budget of $ 120 million, including over $ 89 million in the US and over $ 197 million in the rest of the world. In Germany, the film grossed 2.57 million and a total of around 8.8 million US dollars in cinemas on the opening weekend.

In 2013, 854,412 visitors of the film were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film the 40th place of the most visited films of the year.

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes review collection lists over 250 reviews, 53% of which have a positive tenor and he has a Metascore of 54 out of 100 on Metacritic .

“The fact that Joseph Kosinski originally shot commercials can be seen in his film debut Tron: Legacy as well as Oblivion , the film adaptation of a graphic novel by the director. Kosinski and his production designer Darren Gilford establish a polished setting in high-resolution digital images. In interplay with the strongly stylized images of Claudio Miranda ( Life of Pi ), the driving electro soundtrack and the aggressive sound track that works with a new surround technology, “Oblivion” presents itself as an audiovisually impressive designer dystopia borrowed from Science -Fiction films like Matrix or Minority Report . "

- Christian Horn : filmrezension.de

“The director Joseph Kosinski is considered a visionary. But his new film 'Oblivion' with Tom Cruise lacks characters and conflicts. "

- Barbara Schweizerhof : the daily newspaper TAZ

“[The film] is a mixture of La jetée - On the Edge of the Runway , 2001: A Space Odyssey , Planet of the Apes , Total Recall - Total Recall and Wall-E . It makes you realize that there is little left that can be said about the future. (Translated from English) "

- Philip French : The Guardian

“The problem with 'Oblivion' is […] that the film is knitted together from lots of little pieces that evoke much better space stories and ideas, imaginations and characters all rolled into one. [...] 'Oblivion' does not go beyond these models at any point and thus becomes nothing more than a thin copy. (Translated from English) "

- Manohla Dargis : New York Times

“OBLIVION is a visually impressive and original science fiction blockbuster, which in the end gets lost in its twisted story. While Tom Cruise delivers his usual good performances, Olga Kurylenko is freely interchangeable with her one-sided game. A film that wants to be more, but fails because of it. "

- Josephine Drews : Kino7.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Oblivion . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2013 (PDF; test number: 138 073 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Oblivion . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Oblivion at upig.de, accessed on April 1, 2013
  4. ↑ Inside Tom Cruise's 'Oblivion' Trailer: Director Joseph Kosinski speaks exclusively with MTV News about his sci-fi feature . In: mtv.com . December 13, 2012. (English)
  5. ↑ CCI: Kosinski Illuminates "Oblivion" . In: comicbookresources.com . July 22, 2010, accessed April 1, 2013. (English)
  6. ↑ Disney Acquires Joseph Kosinski's graphic novel 'Oblivion' at Deadline.com, accessed April 1, 2013.
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  10. ↑ Oblivion on film tracks. In: film tracks. Filmtracks Publications, July 7, 2013, accessed September 13, 2018 (American English, self-created title).
  11. ↑ Oblivion. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 18, 2013 .
  12. ^ A b "Release dates for Oblivion" , Internet Movie Database . Accessed May 10, 2012.
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  14. ↑ a b "Oblivion International" at Box Office Mojo, accessed on May 10, 2012.
  15. ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
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  17. ↑ Oblivion at Metacritic (English)
  18. ^ Christian Horn: Oblivion. In: filmrezension.de. filmrezension.de, May 8, 2019, accessed on May 24, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: Beautiful living in the year 2077. Die tageszeitung, April 11, 2013, accessed on April 20, 2013 .
  20. ↑ Philip French : Oblivion - review. In: The Observer. The Guardian, April 14, 2013, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  21. ↑ Manohla Dargis: After the Apocalypse, Things Go Downhill. New York Times, April 18, 2013, accessed April 20, 2013 .
  22. ↑ Josephine Drews: Review: Oblivion (2013). In: Kino7. Denny Pieper - Kino7.de / Doku-Planet.de, January 15, 2016, archived from the original on May 1, 2013 ; accessed on May 24, 2019 .