The Discovery

The movie I am discussing today is a Netflix Original called The Discovery.  This movie is a romantic/science fiction movie. I also would also categorize this movie as a drama because of the serious mood of this film.  I like this combination of genres because it has very cool advancements in technology and it has well made romantic side to the movie. This movie is about a man named Dr. Thomas Harbor, who discovered that your consciousness goes to a different plane after death.  This is very cool topic in my opinion because that is one of the great mysterious that we have yet to prove in our world today. This discovery has led to millions of suicides in the world.

The movie starts out in with an interview with Dr. Thomas.  He decided to come out and talk to the press and clear things up after the millions of suicides that had occurred since his discovery.  During this life interview, the interviewer talks about how many people and how many celebrities and athletes have committed suicide. This hit me extremely hard because I realized how many people look up to celebrities and athletes.  With that being said, many people probably committed suicide because the people they look up to did. Towards the end of this live interview, a man who works for the interviewing company, commits suicide on live tv. This really caught my attention and I was very curious to how the movie would play out. After that scene, the audience meets Dr. Harbor’s son, Will Harbor.  Will harbor is a neurologist just like his father. Will Harbor is played by Jason Segel. At first, I wondered why Jason Segel was in this movie because it is a very serious movie and he is normally in raunchy comedies, but he did an excellent job in playing his character. He travels to his father’s facility on a ferry, where he meets a women named Isla. This is where the romantic part of the movie comes into play.  Throughout the movie Will and Isla build their relationship and become lovers. Will has a weird and awkward conversation about the discovery and suicides on the ferry. During the conversation, there is a screen that shows a counter of how many people have killed themselves since the discovery was made public. I thought this was crazy because if it was just a normal thing to know that 20 people killed themselves in two minutes.   

After the conversation on the boat Will and Isla parted ways.  Later that day Will was walking on the boardwalk and saw Isla on the beach getting ready to drown herself.  He ran into the water and saved her from killing herself. He took her to his dads facility. At his dads facility, Dr. Thomas has a rehab program for people who are suicidal.  It is a very weird facility that gives off a cult vibe. This is a great movie that picks up at the end of the movie.