A Million Miles Away follows the journey of a young farmworker who becomes a NASA astronaut.
Bettina Gilois, Hernán Jiménez and Alejandra Márquez Abella — who base their story on Hernández’s memoir — tell a linear story of a gifted young man who is helped along the way by a teacher, his parents and his extended family. He is rejected so many times fromThese are the top 5 scariest movies according to science
Everyone sacrifices for Hernández to eventually become a mission specialist: His parents stop moving from field to field and lose their home, his wife delays her dreams of opening a restaurant and Hernández himself misses the birth of a child and spends endless hours away preparing. As an engineer, he is mistaken for a janitor at his first day at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
"A Million Miles Away" is wisely more about one man’s obsession and nicely touches on topics like racism, assimilation, deferred dreams, family guilt and dedication. "Tenacity is a superpower," he is told and that’s a pretty great lesson amid all these superhero flicks. In many ways, the movie is an outsized twin to another biopic this year — "Flamin’ Hot," the story of how a struggling but tenacious Mexican American janitor came up with the hit snack Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. "A Million Miles Away" even has a scene with a bowl of Doritos.
Alejandra Márquez Abella directs with assurance and there are some truly elegant touches, like when a box of paperwork dissolves to become a box of field crops or when the camera captures Hernández as a boy in the family car and then seamlessly shows him all grown up in a car following.
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