Dinesh Kamath's column on movie 'Oblivion' under the title 'New movie-release in Navi Mumbai' that was published in Newsband

New movie-release in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Oblivion (2013 film)

Oblivion is a 2013 science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Joseph Kosinski and based on his unpublished graphic novel of the same name edited by Radical Comics. It stars Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo, Zoë Bell, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. According to Kosinski, Oblivion pays homage to science fiction films of the 1970s.

The movie has an interesting plot. In 2073, a 37-year-old former Marine commander named Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last few drone mechanics stationed on Earth, which was nearly destroyed by an alien invasion 60 years earlier. As part of a massive operation to extract the planet's remaining vital resources, he lives in an airborne "town" floating thousands of meters above the Earth. With his mission nearly complete, Jack's soaring existence comes crashing down when he rescues a 22-year-old female stranger (Olga Kurylenko) from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a series of events that forces Jack to question everything he knows about the war and its aftermath. In addition, after being captured by an insurgency led by 102-year-old Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman), Jack is told that the society in which he lives may in fact be a police state.