Oxygen story
Oxygen (French: Oxygène) is a 2021 French-language science fiction thriller film, directed and produced by Alexandre Aja, from a screenplay by Christie LeBlanc. Synopsis: A woman awakens in an airtight medical cryogenic unit, and discovers that she is trapped and that the unit's oxygen levels are falling rapidly.
16 total · 9 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | major | The medical cryogenic unit in which the story is set was equipped with an advanced AI named MILO. It continually assisted the Elizabeth clone in her efforts to find out her true identity and prevent her from suffocating. |
| cryogenic technology | major | The whole story unfolds within is a cryogenic stasis pod. |
| facing death | major | Central to the story was the Elizabeth clone grappling with the fact that she had less than an hour's worth of oxygen left and little hope of survival. |
| human cloning | major | A revelation of the film is that the woman in the medical cryogenic pod was actually a clone of a famed cryogenic doctor. |
| husband and wife | major | The Elizabeth clone experienced frequent vivid memories of herself interacting with Léo - a man she presumed to be her husband. The film concludes with her and the Léo clone embracing one another on a picturesque shore on the planet Wolf 1061c. |
| natural pandemic | major | A premise of the film is that human life on earth would go extinct within two generations owing to a deadly virus. |
| space colonization | major | The Elizabeth clone discovered that she was one of 10,000 clones who were sent on a secret mission to colonize the 14 light-year distant planet Wolf 1061c. In the end, she made it. |
| what if I had amnesia | major | The Elizabeth clone woke up inside a medical cryogenic unit, not remembering who she was or how she got there. She subsequently devoted much effort to piecing together her true identity. |
| what if I were in a tight spot | major | The story follows a woman as she tries to free herself from the confines of an airtight medical cryogenic unit before the unit's rapidly falling oxygen levels result in her suffocation. |
| a person and their clone | minor | The Elizabeth clone was struck by the realization that the elderly woman she'd been speaking to over the phone was in fact the original Elizabeth. |