The movie wanted to be both romance and sci-fi, and ended up... Neither? Well, kind of. In terms of romance it's not bad, but there is no real challenge for the relationship, there is no "messiness" or some "adversary" here, so it's not particularly interesting. Characters do develop a little bit after they meet each other, yes, but it's superficial. The only "obstacle" appears when the girl is, predictably, selected to go into space, and the guy just acts as a selfish child who just realized, that the girl he fell for had "going to space" as her job description and life goal. The sci-fi portion was... As if it was not there for the most part. There psychological aspects of losing her mother were limited to some flashes, not really linked to anything and were, essentially abandoned half way through. Then the girl did go to space, and there was that perfect moment to build proper tension, that could have used her psychological state and bring in the "discovery" (which did not make sense, since these kinds of flowers are unlikely to grow that much within 20 years without any light), but... They ruined it by turning it into a music video mash-up with what was happening on Earth and had very loose connection to happenings on Mars even if you consider symbolism. And they did not even bother to make a full song - just some bits and pieces of it. Let alone that it did not match anything else happening on screen. Then they abandoned sci-fi again by some walkie talkie being able to transmit between planets without delay, even though earlier they mentioned that some special equipment was able to have delay of "just 20 minutes". It's not a bad watch, in the end, but it felt purposeless somehow, and did not land anywhere. I did not feel any impact at all. Perhaps if this was a TV show, and they had more time... But on the other hand there was almost nothing besides the 2 characters... I dunno, I guess if you like those romcoms from Hallmark, you may be able to enjoy this, but otherwise, you probably can save some time by ignoring this.

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