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🧠 Plot Summary (Spoiler-Free First)

A woman (Mélanie Laurent) awakens in a medical cryogenic pod in a disoriented state. She has no memories of her past life and is completely trapped. The pod is monitored by an artificial intelligence called M.I.L.O, which controls her health and the pod’s systems. If she doesn’t figure out who she is and why she’s in the pod, she will die in under 90 minutes due to insufficient oxygen.

Mélanie Laurent piecing together memories and contacting people outside the pod reveals startling truths about her identity and existence.

This film transforms from a survival thriller to philosophical science fiction in the spirit of Moon, Gravity, and Buried.

🎭 Cast & Performances

🌬️ Mélanie Laurent as “Liz” / Omicron 267

Almost a solo performance, Laurent’s portrayal is breathtaking. The role requires a great deal physically and emotionally which she completely pulls off. Her character experiences the full range of human emotions amidst the chaos of fear, frustration, and confinement.

🤖 Mathieu Amalric as the voice of M.I.L.O.

His voice is clinical and monotone, yet oddly comforting. As Liz seeks the answers, the AI both assists and hinders her.

🎥 Aesthetic Choices and Direction

🎬 Commentary on Aja’s Directing Style

Aja has made a name for himself in the horror genre with films such as High Tension and Crawl. He adds intensity from the genre to a minimalist setting by transforming the pod into a psychological pressure cooker through:

Close-ups and shifting angles reflecting Liz’s mental state

Lighting and color indicating mood and system changes

Tight editing and real-time pacing enhancing the film’s claustrophobic tension

Much of the film transpires within a single pod; still, Aja sustains tension with clever visuals and pacing while raising the stakes of the evolving narrative.

🎼 Original Soundtrack and Sound Design

The soundtrack accompanies the visuals with a gentle touch, never drawing attention to itself except to heighten tension. The design of sound is crucial; each exhale of oxygen, as well as the rhythmic beeping from the medical monitors, reinforces the urgency and fear of being trapped.

🧬 Themes & Symbolism

⏳ Survival and Time

The countdown of oxygen available serves as a countdown clock for the character’s existence. In the case of Liz, as she learns more about her life and history, she grapples with a psychological reality of surviving in the moment.

🧠 Memory and Identity

The film sheds light on existence and identity. It poses the question: what is life without a memory? While Liz tries piecing together her past, the movie posits whether memory is essential for existence and how much of identity is dependent on recollection.

🌍 Isolation and Humanity

During times of global emergencies and solitude, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Oxygen taps into anxieties associated with isolation, losing contact with the world, and the reality of what remains when humanity is cut off from connection.

🚀 Science, Ethics, and the Future

Without giving the plot twist away, the film makes a deep dive into speculative science fiction and raises important issues around cloning, space colonization, and the preservation of life in the absence of a habitable Earth.

⚠️ Spoiler Alert — Major Plot Twist Summary

⚠️ SPOILER ZONE BELOW – skip this section if you haven’t seen the movie! ⚠️

As Liz’s memories come back to her, it becomes clear that:

She is not on Earth — she is on a spaceship traveling towards a colonization planet mission (Wolf 1061c).

She is a human clone “Omicron 267,” created from the actual woman Élisabeth Hansen who spearheaded the mission.

The “real” Élisabeth is suffering from terminal illness on Earth, and the clones are designed as a contingency to support the preservation of humanity.

Liz’s sense of identity, which is not artificial, is shaped by the memories she holds. While these memories are implanted, they are intended to grant her autonomy alongside emotional stability. She forms a genuine sense of self and actively works towards surviving.

Liz fully accepting her status as a clone and embarking on her new life on the new planet is how the film concludes. She chooses to embrace hope and existence instead of despair.

🏆 Reception & Critical Response

🌐 Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

🎯 Metacritic: 68/100

Critical acclaim and audience accolades:

Mélanie Laurent’s performance
The film’s structure and emotional twist
High-concept sci-fi tackled with emotional depth

While some critics pointed out there is a slight dip in pacing around the middle, the emotional and intellectual payoff is well earned.

🔚 Final Thoughts: Breathless Sci-Fi with a Beating Heart

Oxygen is a genre-defying work of minimalist science fiction that showcases depth and profound ideas. It fuses elements of survival thrillers with ethical speculation and philosophical self-examination, crafting a story that is part tension and part introspection.

It depicts the intimate and the cosmic, the personal and the futuristic, anchored by Mélanie Laurent’s commanding performance.

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