Voyagers story
Voyagers is a 2021 American science fiction film written and directed by Neil Burger. Synopsis: A group of teenage astronauts are sent on a multi-generational mission in the year 2063 to colonize a habitable exoplanet amidst runaway climate change and declining habitability on Earth.
15 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| society consisting of only children | choice | In short, the film is essentially "The Lord of the Files" set on a spaceship. |
| friendship | major | Important to the story was the disintegrating friendship between Chris and Zach. |
| interstellar space travel | major | The story follows a crew of 30 teenage astronauts as they set out on a 86 light year journey that would see their grandchildren reach and colonize a habitable exoplanet. |
| leadership | major | Much was made of Chris struggling to maintain his legitimacy as elected leader of the crew in the face of Zach's insubordination and ultimate revolt. |
| multi-generational spaceship | major | The story is set aboard the interstellar generational spaceship Humanitas. It was to sustain three successive generations of human being on their journey to a habitable exoplanet located some 86 light years from Earth. |
| persuasion of groups by rhetoric | major | Much was made of Zach playing to peoples fears about the possibility of a malevolent alien being aboard the ship in order to secure his de facto position as group leader. |
| romantic love | major | The story built up to Chris and Sela falling in love and ultimately having a family together. |
| space colonization | major | The story follows a crew of 30 teenagers on their mission to set on on what was to culminate in their great-grandchildren colonizing a habitable exoplanet that lay some 86 light years distant from Earth. |
| computer hacking | minor | Chris hacked into the Humanitas ship computer to find that the chemical substance that he and the other teenagers was being given to drink contained an emotion suppressing neurotoxin. |
| global warming | minor | The teenage astronauts were sent to colonize a new habitable exoplanet amidst runaway global warming on Earth. Climate change and the declining habitability on Earth was, however, only treated briefly at the start of the film. |