An adaptation of the poem, _Aniara_ is the debut feature film from writers/directors Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja, and is an exceptionally ambitious film that is also exceptionally well made. An example that falls into both categories is Harry Martinson's epic poem, _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ (1956), which is essentially about the crippling contemplation of meaninglessness that consumes the passengers of a vast spaceship (the eponymous _Aniara_) set adrift in the eternal void of space, with little hope of rescue. Only becoming more relevant as the years go by and we find ourselves in the midst of an increasingly certain man-made extinction event, such narratives usually take one of two overarching forms – they depict our inability to do anything to prevent extinction or they depict our use of technology to avoid extinction (often in the form of going to another planet). The transitory nature of human existence, especially when set against the infinity of space and time, has served as the inspiration for countless science-fiction narratives in all mediums. Carl Sagan _Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space_ (1997)
In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves._ >_Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. Harry Martinson _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ Canto 103 >_around our grave a glass-clear silence cast._ >_where cosmic night, forever cleft from day,_ Harry Martinson _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ Canto 82 Harry Martinson _Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum_ (1956) Canto 25 >_in bleak tracts of space, leaves vile time behind._ >_or spreading deathly quiet on our kind._ >_no longer offering the planet violence_ >_We ride in our sarcophagus in silence,_ _**The poem is a masterpiece of esoteric science-fiction literature and this is an unexpectedly impressive adaptation with a chilling dénouement**_
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