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If you’re looking for a great sci-fi movie that you probably haven’t seen, then it’s worth signing up for a Paramount+ subscription this February. The streamer added Jeffrey St. Jules’s underrated sci-fi thriller The Silent Planet to its content catalog on February 1st. The movie is set in a distant future where Earth has become partially occupied by an extraterrestrial species, and humans convicted of serious crimes are sent to uninhabited planets, among them Theodore. Serving a life sentence alone on the distant and uninhabited Solitary Penal Planet #384, he is forced to confront his past and remember his life on Earth when a new prisoner arrives.
The Silent Planet Is a Dreamy, Slow-Burn Experience
If you’re looking for grand world-building or CGI spectacles, then The Silent Planet is not what you’re looking for. The movie plays out more like a deep, character-driven psychological study about two characters, played by Elias Koteas and Briana Middleton, navigating memory and paranoia, making it a great streaming option for fans of movies like Solaris and The Lighthouse. The Silent Planet is the type of film that challenges the viewer’s interpretation of reality and forces the audience to engage with an at times ambiguous narrative through shifting perspectives that create a communication disruption mirroring the characters’ own isolation and distrust. It is an incredibly intimate two-hander that explores themes of guilt, memory, and the human condition.
