Hollywood won't seriously do "I married my stalker" with a dude bc male writers can put themselves in that situation
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It's played for horror or for laughs in that situation because guys know a guy cheerfully acquiescing to that situation is not realistic
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I'm partially frustrated too bc the situation in the film is a GREAT situation for a thriller/horror/Twilight-Zone-style plot
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Aurora's situation is genuinely nightmarish and one there's no good way out of (counting the movie's actual ending as a bad way out)
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Now I'm imagining if Aurora had taken the chance to go back to sleep, only to wake up and discover Jim wrote an epic memoir before dying
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And finding that the whole new society on the alien planet takes Jim's book as a sort of founding myth and turns against her for leaving him
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Or there's the ending where Aurora does kill Jim in a rage, and now Aurora is alone, wrestling w the urge to wake someone up
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Maybe (callout to ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) a black-comedy daisy chain of people waking each other up until it all falls apart
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Or just deal a little bit with the realistic problems here - what if Jim just plain doesn't like Aurora as much as he thinks he would
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And, ironically, she's more invested in the relationship than him bc in her mind they're two imperfect ppl thrown together by chance
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Whereas he, inevitably, thinks of himself as having had a choice and of having made the wrong choice
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Or hey -- there is no spare cryopod, but Aurora and Jim stay broken up, and they have to now live the rest of their lives as roommates
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Unless one of them is willing to resort to murder or suicide
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