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Cargo (2009)
No tension
I usually enjoy tech-heavy sci-fi movies, mainly because I read every single author I could find in that genre when I was younger. A movie that depicts space-travel, cryogenic suspension, people existing in cybernetic simulation and corporate conspiracies really has me at the opening credits. In fact this movie has a plot that is typical of the sort of novellas I used to eat up back in the 60's - 70's.
I have to ask myself why I remained uninvolved: maybe it's because I didn't see it in its original language. The depiction of the ship itself, the cryogenic suspension system and also the 'rhea' simulation I thought were well worth a commendation though.
Ikimono no kiroku (1955)
A deep film
My own view of this movie, having just watched it, is that it's a typically moralistic piece from Kurosawa. His protagonist, wonderfully portrayed by Mifune, is a man who has made his life impossible by his philandering behaviour. He has three families altogether; none of whom really regard him with much affection.
I feel the "fear of the hydrogen bomb" is merely his ideation; a way to explain to himself, in his denial, why his life has gradually become impossible to live. As one of the other characters remarks: 'everyone is scared of the bomb, nowhere is safe.'
After he made Rashomon a Buddhist clergyman of high rank said to Kurosawa: "for the benefit of all mankind." I believe all of Kurosawa's movies are highly moral tales.