Desperate times call for desperate measures, or desperate creative solutions. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused many films to either delay filming, or find new creative ways to make movies in a safe and relatively isolated environment. Oxygen, filmed in 2020 according to The New York Times, incorporates the limitations created by filming during the pandemic into the heart of its narrative. The film revolves around a woman (Mélanie Laurent) who wakes up in a sealed cryogenic chamber with a rapidly depleting oxygen supply and no memory of who she is or how she got there. As she struggles to find a way out, her memories slowly begin to return, and she realizes that her situation is far more out-of-this-world than she thought. Continue reading “Review: ‘Oxygen’ is a Wild and Perplexing Ride”
