Does Ad Astra have a twist?
The ending to Ad Astra posits that we've been looking in the wrong direction. Maybe it's inherently irresponsible for us to search the stars for something to save us or to give us meaning, ignoring what's actually happening to humanity in the meantime.
At the end of Ad Astra, Roy is rescued from his spacecraft back on Earth. A group of men runs toward him. At first, they look like aliens, but when they come into focus, they are unmistakably human. Roy seems to have this realization at the same moment we do and smiles as he is greeted, tears in his eyes.
Clifford, dead-set on proving intelligent, non-human life was out there and, as it is implied, driven to the fringes of sanity by the possibility no such life exists, reveals he locked all other Lima Project team members in one corridor of their space station and opened the airlock, effectively killing them.
Ad Astra's conflict originally looks to be about Roy finding his father and stopping a horrific event from happening. But the real struggle is Roy learning the truth about Clifford's legacy, humanity's journey to space, and ultimately his decision to reconnect with humanity itself as a result.
Our hero is invited to a top-secret meeting where it is revealed that his father may still be alive and somehow responsible for said surges, which are due to “cosmic ray bursts” via “antimatter”.
Clifford McBride is the main antagonist of the 2019 science fiction film Ad Astra. He was the father of Roy McBride and the lead astronaut of the Lima Project, an expedition to discover other life in the solar system.
'Ad Astra' Won't Be the Next 'Interstellar' — Editors Say It's So Much More. "Epic, intimate journey." It's easy to see trailers for Ad Astra and assume it'll be this year's Interstellar, a mind-bending and cerebral modern sci-fi drama that takes place in a universe that peers just slightly into our future.
Unfortunately, on the ship in question the mystery of the missing crew is answered when Roy and Captain Tanner (Donnie Keshawarz) are attacked by floating, blood-crazed baboons.
Captain Lawrence Tanner - Died of his wounds after being mauled by the baboons. Helen Lantos' Parents - Died when Clifford disabled their life support. 13 Unnamed Lima Station Crew Members - Killed by Clifford who disabled their life support for attempted mutiny.
: thus one goes to the stars : such is the way to immortality.
Does Ad Astra have anything to do with God?
AD ASTRA has a strong moral worldview with many positive Christian elements, including prayer, self-sacrifice and overt themes regarding the revelation of God in nature and space.
Ad Astra. “Ad Astra” barely broke even at the box office with its $127 million worldwide gross on a budget just under $100 million, but the film was mostly ignored in the U.S. with a domestic haul of $50 million.
Yes, Ad Astra is a movie about space travel, about a man played by Brad Pitt who is searching for his father in the furthest reaches of the solar system. But it's also a movie about God.
