Pulsar (2018) User Reviews

the guilt

[Kirpianuscus · 12 May 2019]

A dark , poetic short Sci. Fi. A Peacemaker. A ship. A mission refused for humanitarian motives. And a fake solar storm. The sacrifice. A new beginning. Fascinating close ups, good performances, eerie atmosphere, inspired storytelling and a smart game of states. Nothing significant, at the first sigh but a beautiful work.

A new way of telling an old, old story... a "whale of a tale" so to speak...

[whooleeoh · 7/10 · 20 March 2021]

I've watched this a few times thanx to Dust. But recently it finally hit me that this is almost like a redoing of an Old (or 1st) Testament story... Jonah, represented by the Peacemaker. He had an attitude that nothing would change if he followed the orders of the Council. He escaped. Picked up by the spaceship, whose operators sought the help of the relic, which in turn pointed to him. & they ended casting him off before their ship was destroyed. And in the end he cried out "don't I deserve a 2nd chance?" That which he was willing to deny whoever he was supposed to originally go to as a peacemaker. Jonah ran away from God bc he didn't want to share the msg of hope, a 2nd chance as it were, to the people of Nineveh. He boarded a ship (& hid down in the keep if I remember correctly). When a storm was about to tear their ship to pieces, they cast lots, which fell upon Jonah. The difference is he told them to toss him overboard, whereas this peacemaker fellow did not go so willingly. The container which the women placed him seems representative of the "fish which God prepared for Jonah..." (not a whale as is often told... obviously it had to be a special fish, lest 3 days l8r he would've been consumed, at least in part, by the gastric juices. Plus I don't know of any whale capable of swallowing a man whole. Also, the lack of O2 would have killed Jonah long b4 3 days had ended. Thus the original Hebrew states "a fish which God had prepared for Jonah..." Jonah complained at the end, bc the people of Nineveh repented after hearing God's msg of judgment, exactly what Jonah said would happen, which meant that he was more about them getting their "just reward" ie judgement, vs the mercy which God showed them after they repented. He complained to God bc it went God's way & not his. Both thought they knew better. Both got a 2nd chance, the mercy they were willing to deny others bc of how they viewed the intended receivers of the msg, even tho if they had been judged by the same measure by which they judged, they themselves would have been burnt toast. Anyways, whether this was the intent of the writer(s?) of this script I know not. But it's what eventually showed itself as to me. I would like to know if in fact it was a rewriting of Jonah of some sort.