Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Pella Kagerman's and Hugo Lilja's ANIARA (2018)

A Bergman film in space, reviewers say,
Yet I think Wheatley's High Rise might compare
More accurately to this chilly play
On tragic commons, time and human cares. 
A spaceship goes adrift and all aboard
Are all they've got. The story as here told
Is not of character. It's how a horde
Of people change their folkways. Growing old
Aboard a space bus was in no one's plan,
And once the holodeck-oid suicides,
There's not a lot to do, but, man oh man
The sexy cults! The false hopes! As long rides
Might go this one is rough. I must say, though
I love it when an old broad steals the show.