SPOILER ALERT: the following article contains massive spoilers, including the ending. If you have not yet seen the movie, proceed at your own risk!
Debutant filmmaker Arati Kadav melds science fiction and mythology together in her visionary and surreal offering, ‘Cargo’, a film that gives a very much modern perspective on isolation and human interaction. With ‘Cargo’, Kadav is on familiar ground, she has previously made a number of short films that deal with other oft-visited branches of the genre. Working in an industry where science fiction is criminally ignored, Yadav’s austerely-budgeted film doesn’t ask its viewers to suspend their disbelief. Instead, it explores very familiar ideas through the scope of speculative fiction. SPOILERS AHEAD.