Movie Details
Title: Salvable (2025)
Genre: Sci-Fi Drama / Dystopian Mystery / Philosophical Thriller
Country: United States / Canada
Duration: 2h 11min
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Screenplay: Alex Garland
Music: Max Richter & Hildur Guðnadóttir
Starring: Rooney Mara, Oscar Isaac, Riz Ahmed, Carey Mulligan, Jeremy Strong
In a near-future world devastated by climate collapse, Salvable explores the fragile balance between technological salvation and spiritual ruin. Society is fractured into autonomous “Zones,” each governed by competing ideologies about how to rebuild humanity. Amid this crumbling civilization, a quiet linguist named Evelyn Cross (Rooney Mara) is recruited by a rogue coalition to decipher the last known transmission from an abandoned AI satellite once designed to preserve human consciousness.
Key Themes & Visual Style:
- Humanity’s Worth: An existential reflection on whether redemption is possible after societal collapse.
- Language as Salvation: Communication and interpretation become both tools of connection and distortion.
- Faith in Progress vs. Acceptance of Decline: The film questions whether technological innovation can fix a spiritual and moral breakdown.
- Emotional Resilience: Through loss, memory, and guilt, characters wrestle with what it means to move forward.
- Bleak yet beautiful: windswept ruins, brutalist structures, glowing auroras over decaying cities.
- Minimalist production design blending analog tech with futuristic decay.
- Emotive close-ups contrasting vast, empty landscapes—capturing inner isolation amidst global collapse.
- A melancholic, swelling score from Max Richter and Hildur Guðnadóttir, blending classical minimalism with eerie ambient textures.