I guess what bugs me is critics saying that ppl attacking PASSENGERS don't appreciate the trope of isolation and extremity warping ppl
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Which honestly offends me bc I love that trope. I'm a huge sucker for both fictional and nonfictional lifeboat stories
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Not just heroic ones, but stories about how survival in extremity can bring out the ugliest and most evil behaviors
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But PASSENGERS just doesn't do that. It doesn't stare darkness in the face, it balks
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In a very real way it gives Jim an unrealistic deus ex machina pathway out of extremity - his sins are miraculously wiped clean
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Think about a version of the movie framed as a flashback, you're a colonist who wakes up and tries to figure out what happened on the voyage
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And you find out that Jim was your unknowing savior - he fixed the ship, he protected it while you were sleeping
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You and everyone else would be dead if not for him, but to "keep himself sane" during his long vigil he slid into monstrous acts
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He became Bluebeard -- waking people up to be his companion again and again only for it to turn sour and for them to go out the airlock
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Three, four, maybe ten people among your population were sacrificed to keep this guy "sane" so you could stay alive
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And now it's all over, and there's nothing you can do about it, except decide whether to tell the story to your kids
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They're making a movie of THE STARS, MY DESTINATION, which is probably the ultimate sci-fi story about "space madness"
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The original novel has a rape scene that I consider gratuitous and poorly handled, but I like the overall story of a man becoming a monster
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