A young refugee, Aryan, is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent—he can levitate. Aryan is smuggled out by the doctor, who is intent on exploiting his secret.
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After seeing this movie, I think the only ones that will be possibly impressed by it, either very negatively or very positively will be only the Hungarians. While the movie tries to be some publicity stunt for the cheapest travel destinations in the grim, ex-communist Eastern Europe, it may also enrage its inhabitants with the story line. Perhaps the movie budget should have been split in two movies: one with a pair of old people enjoying the cheap dull food there, the other with the anti-Christian theme it's about. And then perhaps two different target groups could have been touched. I just shrugged and moved on, definitely not a topic for the rest of us.
Do you need a miracle to try to become a better person? Or maybe more? And can you actually be a better person, if you try to? You will not necessarily get a conclusive answer to these questions, but what you definitely get if you watch Jupiter's moon, is a relatively entertaining story wrapped into a migrant-sci-fi coating, wonderful camera work, really good action scenes, and some food for thought. Some of the scenes -- both inside and outside ones -- are excellent, acting is also OK. A surprisingly good movie, although you probably need to be in the right mood to really enjoy it.
Well I spent the whole movie waiting for the explanation of why it flies, but I imagine that it will have to be an act of faith, you believe it, period, but since I am very rational, I do not feel like it.It is also that sometimes it flies for one thing and sometimes for another. He chooses when he flies, but not always. Also sometimes it takes advantage of its use and that is not very ethical.I do not like anything as it is shot. It also takes me out of the film, it's as if we had to do the planes like that through the nose as always, as if the norm in the film is to move the camera like that. It's about that every moment has its shape not the other way around.I believe the actors, although I do not know if they believe what they want to tell us or do not even know.Lighting is sometimes fine, sometimes it's bad. When it's okay, it gets you full and it's pretty, but when it's on the street. She's so bad.The director, counting his manias, because he ballasts the movie. It does not explain things, you do not know why or why. What does the end mean? I'm not bored, but I do not know where he's going.I do not know, I guess someday someone will take me out of doubt
Well, this is a strange one: it seems to be part sci-fi fantasy, part religious allegory and part political polemic about the treatment of refugees.Syrian refugee Aryan (played by Zsombor Jéger, who is not Syrian but Hungarian) is shot by police officer László (György Cserhalmi) while trying to illegally enter Hungary. But instead of dying he levitates. Winding up in a refugee camp, his 'super-power' is discovered by doctor Gabor (Merab Ninidze, currently appearing in the BBC's 'McMafia'). At first, Gabor sees Aryan chiefly as an opportunity to get cash from the religiously gullible, but gradually he grows to sympathise with the boy's plight and resolves to help him search for his missing father. But grizzled cop László is determined to stay on their trail, particularly when Aryan is implicated in a terrorist atrocity.It is difficult to tell how well the Hungarian Jéger plays a Syrian, but he makes a sympathetic enough hero. Cserhalmi is appropriately focused as the obsessive László, determined to track down the illegal immigrant - or is he an angel? It is Ninidze who is on-screen the most, and his world-weary manner and hang-dog looks are perfect for the part of sleazy, disgraced Gabor (although curiously, in the cast list another actor is listed as 'voice of Gabor Stern').Given their importance to the plot, the levitation scenes are at times carelessly-staged - it is often obvious that Jéger is on wires and, considering how high Aryan levitates, it is remarkable that his hair stays in place even when gusts of wind are heard on the soundtrack. And is the viewer really supposed to believe that - final scene aside - when Aryan levitates over city streets only one or two people notice him? But flaws aside, this film has interesting characters and is packed to bursting with story.
