Tides story
Tides (also known as The Colony) is a 2021 English-language German-Swiss science fiction thriller film directed and written by Tim Fehlbaum. The film stars Nora Arnezeder, Iain Glen, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, and Joel Basman. Synopsis: A trio of astronauts arrive on Earth from a distant space colony to assess whether the formerly ecologically ravaged planet is once again suitable for human habitation.
13 total · 4 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| compromising one's ethical principles vs. great need | major | Gibson justified abducting the mud dweller girls and raising them in the culture of the space colonists with a view to taking them to live on the colony on the ground that the colony needed the girls to diversify its gene pool. Blake strongly disagreed, and teamed up with the mud dwellers to help them get their kids back. |
| ecological destruction | major | The story is set in a future where the Earth was in the early stages becoming habitable again after its ecology was decimated by human activity. |
| mass infertility | major | The space colonists who settled in the Kepler 209 star system were no longer able to reproduce due to heavy radiation on their planet, and looked to Earth for female breeding stock. |
| space colonization | major | A dying colony in the star system Kepler 209 sent a team of astronauts to assess if Earth, which had been long ago ravaged by climate change and other problems, was once again habitable. |
| childhood aspirations | minor | The boy Neil expressed a desire to become an astronaut when he grew up. |
| father and daughter | minor | Blake had an emotionally charged reunion with her father, whom she hadn't seen or heard from in 15 years. Munay interacted with her young son, Neil. |
| father and son | minor | Gibson at one point lost his temper with his adoptive son, Neil. |
| human vs. captivity | minor | Blake was imprisoned in a drain by the mud dwellers. |
| interstellar space travel | minor | Three astronauts landed on Earth after having presumably journeyed there all the way from the Kepler 209 star system. |
| natural pandemic | minor | The opening text made clear that pandemics played a role in the Earth becoming uninhabitable. |