Unit 6: Explanatory essay, Martian.

     Some movies could happen in any places. However, in other films, the location of a movie could be a severe ordeal itself to a leading character. Martian is a most-representative among those movies. In Martian, Mars is where every hardships that the protagonist suffers happens. Being left in Mars alone without enough food supplies and solid facilities which can protect him from the harsh environment means death. In order to avoid death and being rescued alive, the main character tries to do everything he can.

     Every event of the movie happens in space, especially Mars. Mark Watney, an astronaut who was given the task of Mars exploration, is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. However, Mark was not dead and since he was left alone in Mars, he has to find some ways to survive until the next Mars exploration team comes. Since it takes four years for the exploration team to come, he is running out of the provisions. Fortunately, he is a botanist and he tries to grow potatoes with the soil of Mars and water from burning hydrogen and oxygen. Also, he has to be at Schiaparelli, the next exploration team's destination, so he struggles to make a vehicle and to get there in time overcoming many difficulties. Those events could not happen in any other places in Earth, because if it was not happened in outer space but in Earth, being left alone would not be regarded as death.

     Also, the highlight of the movie is when Mark being rescued by his colleagues in space. At the end of the movie, NASA and Mark's colleagues try to save him from Mars. According to a plan, the crews and Mark were to meet at a proper location but there is something wrong with the Mark's spaceship so he has to get out of it and make it to the crews' spaceship. However, he had no electric power to help him get there, so he makes a hole in the palms of his space-suit, which will make him like the Iron Man. This peculiar idea is viable because he is in outer space, not in Earth.

     Those events in Martian cannot happen in Earth, but only in Mars. Due to the martian environment, Mark has to overcome few hardships only to cultivate potatoes and to get to Schiaparelli alive. Also, thanks to one useful feature of space, he is able to fly like the Iron Man by only cutting a hole in his gloves and be rescued alive. As the pollutions of the earth is growing worse and the population expands, many people would have thought about living in other planets at least once. However, have you ever thought about being left alone in other planets with no hope?