Pitts co-stars as Steven Flanigan, the older brother of Nate. It’s not made clear what he was studying, but he does ask his mother about a dream of fashion design that she gave up for the more practical vocation of nursing, and it’s a wonder if he’s as much asking for himself as he is for her. He works as a personal trainer at a local gym. However, Lim has a scene where a staunch atheist quotes Christopher Hitchens to his younger brother, saying that life on this planet compared to the vast emptiness of space is proof of the universe’s godlessness.Ĭraig Jordan stars as Nate Flanigan, a college student who moved back home to be with his mother after his father died of stomach cancer. Malick used space and history as an argument for faith and religious ideal.
Here, writer-director Joshua Lim uses the existence of space and our modern-day observations of it as an argument for atheism. It’s almost reminiscent of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life where Malick tried to connect the cosmos, the vastness of time and space as well as Earth’s past to the present lives of a single family, especially as it related to the experiences of its young boys. It then cuts to the inside of a car as a family of four is shepherded someplace. The film starts with a shot of space and the twinkling of a few stars, millions of light-years away.
