Perfect Interstellar Replacement From 3 Body Problem Author Available on Netflix

Summary:

• The 2019 Chinese movie, based on Liu Cixin’s short story, offers a level of the space story’s epicness, compatible with the one of Nolan’s Interstellar.
• It features a dystopian future in which Earth needs to be moved away from the sun to save the planet and all its residents from dying.

Back in 2014, Christopher Nolan dropped a sci-fi sensation, telling a story of astronauts on a mission to travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity. The glowing commercial and critical success of Interstellar proved to filmmakers that people’s interest in space science fiction is literally never-ending.

However, what if we take the inventive space story combined with the line of those who were left on Earth and set it in China? We’ll receive the 2019 Frant Gwo’s space movie, which can easily beat Nolan’s masterpiece by its spectacularity.

This Chinese sci-fi hit is set in a dystopian future, where the sun has become unstable, threatening to consume Earth within 300 years. The first storyline revolves around Liu Peiqiang (played by the martial arts master Wu Jing), an astronaut tasked with navigating Earth’s path through the solar system on a space station.

The parallel line of the movie’s plot features his growing son, Liu Qi (Qu Chuxiao), who becomes a self-proclaimed genius urging to show himself to the whole planet, which needs salvation. However, the most interesting part here starts when he manages to come to the surface, while Earth eventually starts moving towards its goal.

The given movie showcases potential fluctuations of both the solar system and the definite person in trouble. It can be compared with Interstellar not only due to its space theme, but also to the depiction of children being left by their parents, who choose their duty not to stay at home’s comfort, but to save humankind, including their kids.

Titled The Wandering Earth, this sci-fi blockbuster, based on the 2000 short story by Liu Cixin, the author of the bestselling The Three-Body Problem novel, became quite a breakthrough for Chinese cinematography. It grossed $701 million worldwide, which made it the back-then highest-grossing non-English movie ever made.

Despite the massive praise of the movie’s visual effects, its amazing scale and inventive book source, it’s getting strictly criticized because of its poor scientific evidence.

“The science in it [The Wandering Earth] makes the movie Armageddon look like a National Geographic documentary in comparison,” jokes Redditor @odyseuss02.

Whether it’s more justified by science or less, this movie is definitely a must-watch for sci-fi lovers. Luckily, The Wandering Earth is now available for watching on Netflix .