Project Hail Mary

There's no need for additional hype for "Project Hail Mary" but I just finally got to watch it with some friends in their large TV; my girlfriend loves the movie so much it became her instant favorite and we watched it a couple more times, becoming a perfect candidate for my second review on this new blog

The reviews, ratings, popularity, and memes all over the place speak great of the movie, so I will skip that and focus on the way they use language to advance the plot and focus on a particular exchange that condenses everything about its hero's journey

This movie heavily relies on language to advance the plot with great consideration, the first sentence from a character tells you a lot about their back story and perfectly delivered in the correct speed, accents and accompanying behavior you'd expect to go with that. Our hero's insecurities are validated by the jokes and condescending tone they use with him, rocky's vocabulary and the speed they can communicate slowly develops, the way that Grace to himself and his excited behavior when things are going well; the movie uses those and many more ways to convey a beautiful message with many layers of drama and comedy

Reluctant Hero

Ryland Grace:I'm not an astronaut! I put the 'not' in astronaut! I've never done a space walk, I can't even moonwalk! I haven't done any training, I haven't done the whole... the pool thing!

Olesya Ilyukhina:No, no, no. That is just we do for the picture, for social media

Ryland Grace:I'm not heroic in any way. I get sick on an elevator!

Yao:Perfect. There's no elevator on the ship

This quote completely summarizes the message from Project Hail Mary and is comedic essence, while it quietly dismantles one of science fiction's oldest lies: that heroes know they're heroes

Grace spends half the movie trying to convince everyone, including himself, that somebody else should be doing this. He's a middle-school science teacher accidentally standing in the place where history expects a myth. Ryan Gosling plays him with the kind of awkward sincerity that's almost disappearing from modern blockbusters. He's not cool. He's not fearless. He's barely so adorably barely functional

Reality is much more similar to that, and being able to capture that makes the movie more grounded. All the technology and ideas were grounded in science, and the soul of the characters was really well considered as well

The dialogue does something surprisingly difficult. Every joke reveals character, it engages deeper with the meaning. The movie isn't trying to introduce comic relief, he's a normal person being insecure and using jokes to deflect. He's talking faster than his brain can process what's happening. Comedy advances the dramatic plot

Olesya dismisses Grace's fears almost maternally, with humor and practicality. She doesn't argue with his panic; Yao, on the other hand, barely wastes words. Nobody is looking to comfort him or encourage him, he's an inconvenient necessity,

Grace wasn't chosen because he was the bravest person alive. In fact, he was rejected, dismissed, and underestimated precisely because he kept seeing something everyone else ignored. His curiosity, not his confidence, turned out to save two planets with two different kinds of live

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