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“Atlas is told through the lens of a woman who’s learning to trust after undergoing a trauma that’s upended her life. It’s a reminder of how we have to have deep, meaningful relationships in our lives, in one way, shape, or form. That you can’t do everything by yourself; you have to choose to trust people at a certain point and let them in.”
Since the world is divided into generations, it is without hard feelings to say that the 55-year-old American actress, Jennifer Lopez, is a Gen X—a generation commonly believed to be a little bit cut below the level of sophistication of Millennials and Gen Zs. However, Lopez faulted this belief as she made a shocking appearance for the first time in her movie career as a space traveller in Atlas.
Last year, Lopez’s presence in “The Mother“ saw her fight relentlessly with her demons and the need to reunite with her long-gone love. In the Alaskan wilderness, alongside her other movies like her next to debut—Anaconda and others—similar scenarios, irrespective of any violent narrative, the romance and love story would usually play out. But Lopez, who spent her last three decades acting love on a near surface and within the confinement of Mother Earth, is ready to take that romance on the orbital horizon: another level of her career that she never attained. This could be a blockbuster only at her frequent peddling on the space. Maybe or maybe not, now, Lopez is launching herself into orbit to face her foe in her new movie Atlas, the multi-hyphenate performer plays the titular character, a government analyst who’s hurled to a distant world on a quest to defeat her oldest enemy: the robot warrior who upended her life.
According to Lopez herself, in a chat with Netflix, “Atlas is someone who has basically shut out the world around her.” This, being the first of Lopez’s, could probably be a way of the actress interpreting her complete shut out of the world around her. Though she is changing that to rectify her current problem,.
Atlas, as a character, doesn’t trust anybody. “She doesn’t trust anybody and doesn’t want anything to do with AI,” Lopez said. Unfortunately, on her mission in the far reaches of space, Atlas won’t have much of a choice — stranded in a high-powered armor suit, she’s forced to confront her fear of technology by allying herself with it. Set in a high-tech world, Atlas is a galaxy-spanning adventure written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Brad Peyton, who previously helmed San Andreas and Rampage.
What is Jennifer Lopez’s Atlas all about?
Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.
“The heart of Atlas is really about trust and how difficult it is to trust people,” Peyton told Netflix. “Atlas is told through the lens of a woman who’s learning to trust after undergoing a trauma that’s upended her life. It’s a reminder of how we have to have deep, meaningful relationships in our lives, in one way, shape, or form. You can’t do everything by yourself; you have to choose to trust people at a certain point and let them in.”
For Jennifer Lopez in Atlas, the film’s story is as simple as they come. “I loved that this is a big sci-fi action movie, but at its core, it’s a story of friendship — and a love story, in a way,” she said. “I always see everything as a love story, but this is a different kind of love between two beings who connect in disastrous circumstances and teach each other how to be more human.”
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Enoch Oyedibu
I am a writer and investigative journalist who specialises in literary criticism and underrepresented narratives. Among other publications, I have been featured in Business Day Nigeria, TheICIR, Platform Times and Daily Nigerian. Right now, I work as a full-time staff writer for Unconventional Magazine.
