Silent Running 4K 1972

A wonderful film about what could possibly happen in the future.

No longer living on Earth. On the American space station 'Iron Valley' four people are conducting research (so few, for the function of this station is to preserve some species of plants and animals contained in huge hemispheres, and human participation is almost unnecessary - robots are able to do almost all the basic work). Among these people is one 'oddball' (according to others)-Freeman (the name is telling), the only one who understands well how important their work is. He takes care of the plants and communicates with the animals, likes to eat fresh fruit from the trees, while the others eat 'dried crap', play cards, and race little cars, the means of transportation around the giant station. One day, the people on the station receive orders to destroy the hemispheres with all living things. Freeman thinks it's crazy, because his dream is to return to Earth, repopulating it with animals and plants...

I may not have described it very well, but the movie is very interesting and thought-provoking. The actors act emotionally, it makes you cry and the robots look very funny, for all their 'metalness' they feel. The songs are touching. It's worth noting that the behavior of Freeman's colleagues depicts, I think, the attitude of all (or almost all) people towards the Earth: we are not its masters, we are only a species of living beings and we should not think we have the right to rule over it. We should not take away other creatures' right to live on it as it should be, to live without disfiguring the world and exterminating species.

A film that makes us think about what we humans are doing to the planet.