Space Mutiny sets rebellion aboard a spacecraft whose human conflicts are more immediate than its destination. The industrial interiors make command, labor and violence look like neighboring departments of the same operation. Its compact vehicles and energetic physical confrontations are part of a future assembled from tangible machinery. Watch how the film uses levels, railings and corridors to stage shifts in power. The pleasure is in its emphatic action logic, even when the supposed vastness of space narrows to a surprisingly busy workplace.
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Space Mutiny
1988 / VIEWING NOTES
Space Mutiny sets rebellion aboard a spacecraft whose human conflicts are more immediate than its destination.