Prospect, written and directed by Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl - 8.1 out of 10

Prospect, written and directed by Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl

8.1 out of 10

Prospect is an interesting, appreciated by the critics film – it has a promising metascore of 68.

Sophie Thatcher is impressive in the role of Cee, a teenager that would eventually dominate the narrative of the film.

She joins her father, Damon aka Jay Duplass of Transparent fame, in prospecting for gems on a distant moon, sometime in the future.

One shortcoming – in the view of this cinephile – seeing that we are talking about a long time in the future, is that the equipment, the arrangements that these people use seem rather obsolete.

True, it could well be that instead of progressing, humanity would return to less sophisticated means, as so many dystopian, pessimistic novels and books would suggest.

Only in that scenario, our descendants would not be populating the long distant shores of the universe, would they?

In that sense, the tubes connecting Cee with her father and later to Ezra aka the very good Pedro Pascal look like something they used before Leonardo da Vinci, albeit we must also think about money.

The film did not have access to the usual huge purse, that Avengers and other such flics have at their disposal and therefore the special effects and props they could use were limited.

Very early on, the contractors on this moon, walking in the toxic forest meet with Ezra and they have to negotiate an arrangement, but when Damon confronts the competition for gems, a shootout ensues.

The father is dead.

It is thus a confrontation between the daughter and the injured man – he has been hit in the conflict.

On the one hand, Cee would want to take revenge for the death of her parent and eliminate what is surely an enemy, but on the other hand, she is facing a serious challenge.

They may find solutions to the problems, one of which is crucial for they have no vehicle, space ship or whatever to fly out – if that is the correct word for transgallactic trips.

Therefore, they reach a truce, where the girl still keeps a – rather rudimentary looking – gun pointed at the man that tried to explain what had happened, which is anyway something she knows.

Cee is very resourceful, intelligent – Emotionally, which is most important and in the traditional sense – brave, resilient, kind, generous, forgiving – in short, she is a real Role Model.

Very soon, the new temporary allies meet with other people – again, if the description is correct – and they talk to Ezra and ask him to give them the girl, in exchange for some advantages.

She waits a little for the opportunity and runs - maybe for her life – from the tent where her transaction was to take place and manages to escape, after eliminating one adversary.

This is not all, for other, arguably, even more deranged figures appear and it is a fight for life or death.

Cee would prove her loyalty to her newfound friend – indeed, the only companion and support in this awful place.