Sputnik story
Sputnik (Russian: Спутник) is a 2020 Russian science-fiction horror film directed by Egor Abramenko in his feature directorial debut. Synopsis: A young doctor is recruited by the military to assess a cosmonaut who survived a mysterious space accident and returned to Earth with a dangerous organism living inside him.
10 total · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | The cosmonaut Konstantin brought back from space an alien creature inside his own body without knowing it himself. |
| human vs. monster | major | There was a grotesque alien creature going around at night biting people's faces off. |
| medical occupation | major | The physician Tatyana Klimova was brought to a military facility to study a cosmonaut who'd returned from space with a dangerous creature inside of him. |
| monster | major | Konstantin was inhabited by a grotesque, amoral alien creature that came out at night and bit people's faces off. |
| parasitic being | major | An alien creature took up home inside Konstantin's esophagus much like a tapeworm. But unlike a tapeworm, the creature came out of Konstantin at night while he was sleeping, and went around biting people's faces off. |
| weaponization of animals | major | Colonel Semiradov was determined to turn the murderous alien creature living inside Konstantin into a weapon that the military could control. |
| coping with post-traumatic stress | minor | Tatyana diagnosed Konstantin with PTSD. |
| government secrecy | minor | The military "sanitized" a news report about the Orbit-4 orbiter landing to hide that something had gone terribly wrong. |
| orphanhood | minor | It was revealed at the end that Tatyana had lived in an orphanage as a young girl. And it was presumably for this reason that she felt such sympathy for Konstantin's son who was himself an orphan. |
| remorse | minor | Konstantin lamented having consigned his son to an orphanage so that Konstatin could go to space. |