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Mélanie Laurent in Oxygen (2021)

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Oxygen

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Continuity

It's stated several times the transporter craft supports 10,000 pods yet the assigned naming convention only allows 4 digits. Liz's, for example, was pod '0267', and Leo was '0042'. For there to be 10,000 labelled pods the first would have to be '0000' rather than '0001' which is unlikely. However, two of Liz's memories show 5-digit conventions: her DNA swab ID of '00267' and paper files of her and Leo (73min) also '00267' and '00042' respectively.

Factual errors

The brief moment of zero gravity implies that rotation for the single capsule can be stopped. However, a subsequent view indicated that the entire structure rotates, making it implausible that a single capsule could achieve zero gravity.
The term cryogenics is often used incorrectly, when the actual term is cryonics.
Liz has recurring visions of suffocating in agony if the cryopod were to run out of oxygen. In actuality, the human body can't detect the lack of oxygen (the pain from suffocation is caused by too much carbon dioxide). Since spaceships have the technology to scrub carbon dioxide from the air, Liz's hypothetical death would be painless.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Main character is seen whilst traveling away from Earth at about half of the speed of light. The viewers are told six years of the journey has already passed. That means she is now approximately 3 light years from Earth. This seemingly doesn't prevent her from having real time telephone calls with people back on Earth. Actually, the signal would need 3 years to get to Earth and another 3 to return to the ship, so the conversation wouldn't be possible at all.

This is incorrect. The real Liz told her clone she has been in hypersleep for 12 years - but this doesn't mean she has been travelling for this length of time since MILO confirmed she is only 42,735 miles from Earth (52-53min). To put this into perspective the Moon is almost 239,000 miles away from Earth. We're also told the HIVE thrust hasn't been engaged yet, which we witness happening at the end of the film when 'cloned Liz' resumes hypersleep for the journey to the WOLF planet 14 light years away. Perhaps it took 12 years to complete/populate/test the large craft with 10,000 pods in space.
Even though the destination planet Wolf 1061c is about 4 times as massive as earth, the surface gravity is estimated to be only about 1.5 times as high due to its larger radius. While this is certainly uncomfortable and some physiological problems are guaranteed, it's habitable - especially given the medical advancement supposedly made that were needed for cryonics and adult clone creation.

Miscellaneous

When Liz asks for the pod's UV filter to be removed so she can see the craft and other pods, the lighting and shadows from the sun on her pod do not change despite the fact she's inside a rotating cylinder. It's only when the camera pulls back the changes are evident.
MILO fills a tube full of killing juice into Liz's foot BUT she pulls it out just before it reaches her. Later, when MILO is going to put her in hyper-sleep, she needs to re-insert the needles she's pulled out, including the one in her foot. No where did it show the killing juice being extracted from the tube AND the tube getting flushed out w. a saline solution prior to her putting it back into her foot.
Elizabeth asks what her temperature is. Milo responds saying it's 98.7F. This is supposed to have taken place in Europe as mentioned a couple of times. Her temperature would be around 37C.
Milo says that the call was terminated at the source. It was actually terminated at the destination.

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