While I sit at my desk contemplating the new Covid 19 world we live in, I have found my mind drifting to movies that have solitary, isolation and separation in their themes and the impact it has on the characters in the narrative.
Clearly there are some obvious titles that leap out, and maybe you have some suggestions to add to my list.
Repunzel and Tangled were two films that my daughters’ suggested.
Castaway featured Tom Hanks marooned on a desert island with just a football called Wilson to keep him company. He understandably lost some sense of reality but maybe managed to improve his “keepy uppy skills?
Papillon, the true story of Henri Charierre, graphically chronicles his quest for freedom from the French penal system that incarcerated him for a crime he did not commit. However, as this tale did not focus just on the isolation he endured at the end of his sentences, it cannot be at the top of my list of movies.
Apollo 13 is a multi-award-winning depiction of the true story where NASA were calmly advised, “Houston, we have a problem”, surely one of the great examples of understatement.
Many thousands of miles above earth in a rapidly deteriorating tin can, must have been a fear few can imagine, and required the greatest of calm and team work to remedy.
But the thought of space travel has led me to my greatest movie where “isolation” is my theme, The Martian. Matt Damon considered dead by his support team had to work out his options and plan the solutions with little to guide him, other than his training, his skills as a Botanist and the power of the sun.
As someone who seeks to have solar panels on every new commercial build in the country (on earth), you will forgive me for landing on this film as my favourite.
It was the immense power of the sun that gave him his energy source from which all else was possible. He could heat and light his accommodation, he could fuel the growing of his food source, he powered his transport and most crucially managed to power his communications with earth.
This predictability of a renewable resource combined with smart application of best in class technology meant he survived what Mars had to throw at him – and get safely back to earth.
I am not suggesting Footprint Zero solar solutions will enable space travel. That would be far fetched! But we can offer reliable renewable energy generation from property assets you probably don’t utilise to the max. Ask us to come for a site visit to give you a quote, just don’t ask us to come to the “Red Planet”.