David Amar

Slingshot (2024) isn’t your run-of-the-mill space flick—it dives headfirst into the messiness of human ambition, paranoia, and everything in between. You’ve got this astronaut, David Amar, who’s supposed to be living the dream up on a deep-space mission, except things go sideways pretty quick. The story doesn’t just stick to shiny spaceships and high-tech jargon; it’s more about the stuff going on inside Amar’s head. He’s isolated, drifting further from Earth and, honestly, from reality too. The longer he’s up there, the more reality starts to slip—lines blur, hallucinations creep in, and you start to wonder what’s real and what’s just the product of a mind that’s been stretched way too thin. The other crew members? They’re not exactly helping. Tensions build, secrets bubble up, and nobody really trusts anybody else. It’s claustrophobic as hell, and you can feel the pressure mounting with every scene. Amar’s past decisions haunt him, and you get flashes of his old life that make you question his motives. Is he a hero, or just another person in over his head? The whole vibe is tense, unsettling, and, honestly, kind of trippy at times. No big explosions or laser battles—this one gets under your skin, poking at the fear of what isolation can do to a person. By the time the credits roll, you’re left chewing on a bunch of questions with no easy answers.