There are two elements that are being overexploited in cinematographic and literary works: Teen romance and Mars. Numerous titles have used trips to Mars as their starting point and a multitude more use young novels as a plot and all end up being somewhat forced. In the first example, the reason is obvious, it is rare that there is not an absurd amount of holes in the script for interplanetary productions, which constantly exaggerate the use of technology and information. The second example, on the other hand, is often wrong in exaggerating the demonstration of adolescent love, after all, young people fall in love all the time (remember the famous expression "adolescent passion"?) And it is almost impossible to find the better half - as they are usually put in these works - aged 16.
The Space Between Us he sinned by uniting these two elements that were already so worn and controversial in his plot. Turning only on these arguments, the script presents us Gardner (Asa Butterfield), a boy raised on Mars for being born in the middle of the first mission that sent the first residents to the planet. Because his mother died in childbirth, Gardner has a void he needs to fill and an obsession with planet Earth, which he wants to visit at all costs, but his formation on Mars causes problems in his organs, his heart cannot take the planet's gravity and so it doesn't allow him to live on Earth.
His will only increases when he begins to maintain constant contact with Tulsa (Britt Robertson), a girl with her own housing problems. Without even knowing the truth about Gardner's situation, she, and the desire to meet her father, are the boy's reasons for ignoring his imminent death and coming to Earth.
The Space Between Us it was a very ambitious project, and it was to be imagined that if they were to spoil, it would be in the explanation of a boy born on Mars. However, it was not there that things went wrong, this part is well addressed in the script, representing this unusual situation well and using a lot of technology to leave everything properly explained. No, the problem with the script was selling an interplanetary plot and spending almost the entire film focusing on two teenagers, instead of exploring the full potential of this plot. There are innumerable questions to be presented, innumerable possibilities to speculate on the issue of Gardner's health - which packed all the disclosure of the feature -, innumerable philosophical and moral questions to be analyzed and all this is left aside, to be addressed only at the end and in a very quick way, showing during the rest of the production only long and unnecessary scenes of Gardner and Tulsa.
What the script gets right when explaining Gardner's origin, fails to explain his relationship with Tulsa. Everything is overlooked and the most demanding viewers will undoubtedly notice that there is no explanation for only Tulsa to get in touch with him, being that a boy so obsessed with Earth would try to make as many contacts as possible. Or even the reason why Tulsa complains so much about her current housing situation, since Gardner is enough to turn around and not return home.
The Space Between Us it is not a literary adaptation, but for its context it could be. Filled with situations identical to those seen in famous youth novels, such as those written by John Green, it gets to be similar even in the moral questions that are briefly asked and in the turnaround presented at the end.
Only what saves the feature are the performances and the sets. It is a beautiful work to see, with actors already known who do not fail in their roles. Asa, even young, is already well known in Hollywood, acting from a very early age and represents very well the small difficulties that his character presents on Earth - from the way of walking to the problems in social interactions. At your side we have the always great performance of Gary Oldman, which ends up being the only hint of the explanations presented in the outcome.
The Space Between Us it's a wasted plot. What could be a great success, is lost when you want to take advantage of the wave of adaptations focused on teen romance and focus your focus where you should give less attention.
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