Douglas Trumbull is the director of Silent Running. Trumbull, also did special photographic effects for 2001 and Close Encounters of the Third Kind his talent is evident in this movie. The visual effect for a 1972 movie are outstanding.

Earth has placed the last of it’s plants and animals into spaceships and launched them into space for safekeeping.  Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) loves the plants and has been working nonstop in space for 8 years on one of the ships. When ordered to destroy the plants, because the ship are needed for other missions, Freeman snaps.

Nobody does crazy better the Dern. The personalization of the three drones didn’t work well at all for me. It would have better if they had stayed drones and Freeman added human traits because he was alone. Instead the drones keep showing human traits, till we too think they can reason.

As Freeman said to the drone, “Well, that’s pitiful. Pitiful! That’s exactly the opposite of what it’s supposed to be. ”

05/10 Great effects and a noble message, lost me before the end.