History Film / TheMidnightSky

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''The Midnight Sky'' is a 2020 ScienceFiction {{Drama}} movie released by Creator/{{Netflix}}. It was directed by Creator/GeorgeClooney, who also stars, and was written by Mark L. Smith, adapted from the novel ''Good Morning, Midnight'' by Lily Brooks-Dalton.

* AdamAndEvePlot: [[spoiler:By the end of the film, Sully, Ade, and their unborn child are effectively the only survivors of the Event, and are en route back to X-23 to start a new life.]]
* AlienSky: The sky of X-23 is bright orange, said to be the result of the sun being reflected off of Jupiter.

** Any moon orbiting Jupiter as closely as X-23 does would have been sterilized by the planet's radiation belt long before developing an Earth-like atmosphere.
** Even the name "X-23" is an out of place throwback to the days of "[[LetXBeTheUnknown Planet X]]"; modern astronomy conventions use alphanumeric designations based on how and when they were discovered, which are generally difficult to parse for lay people. Major bodies tend to receive proper names fairly quickly too, and any major moon around Jupiter would be named after descendants or lovers of Zeus/Jupiter, in line with [=IAU=] conventions.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Heavily bitter, bordering on {{Downer|Ending}}. Augustine dies while talking to Sully, a.k.a. Iris Sullivan, who never learns that he was her father. Mitchell and Sanchez are flying back to Earth, but it's unlikely that they'll survive long enough for Mitchell to find his family. The only bright point here is that Sully, Ade and their unborn child survive and head back to X-23 to live there. Augustine also mentions underground shelters on Earth that should hold some survivors, but those are temporary, effectively making Sully, Ade and their child the last surviving members of the human race]].

* NumberedHomeworld: You'd think the first-discovered Earth analog, especially one '''inside our own solar system''', would have a more meaningful name than "X-23".

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:In the past, Augustine discovered that Jean had his daughter and lied about her pregnancy scare being negative. There's no indication that she told the daugher, Iris, about who her father was and he never introduced himself to her]].

* PlayingAgainstType: Clooney usually plays well groomed ladies man, the flashbacks where his character is played by another actor indicate that his character used to like this but for the bulk of the movie Clooney himself plays is a disheveled, tired and depressed character.

* DirectedByCastMember: Clooney both stars in the film and directed it.