Review of The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) by Knox M — 12 Apr 2015
Bold and hypnotic. Hertzog blends real footage of a NASA shuttle mission, exploration underneath the ice shelf in Antarctica, and mathematicians explaining the gravity tunnels between planets and weaves a fictional narrative around it all with Brad Dourif playing an alien from Alpha Centari.
The music is incredibly alien and often nearly overpowers the imagery onscreen, which says something as some of the footage is pretty incredible. The underwater sequences is repeated in Hertzog's later documentary about the Antarctica, Encounters at the End of the World, but here is used convincingly as an alien landscape.
Its just amazing to see how well he weaves footage of things as mundane as a satellite being built and astronauts exercising on the shuttle into a movie about a mission to another planet. Its really quite inventive.
This review of The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) was written by Knox M on 12 Apr 2015.
The Wild Blue Yonder has generally received positive reviews.
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