Sexy Sci-Fi Blockbuster on Netflix Reveals Which of Your Friends Are Psychos
By Chris Snellgrove | Published
When Passengers came out in 2016, causing a minor blip on the pop culture radar. The movie stars two different Marvel icons, Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, so there was a lot of excitement before the movie premiered. Although it made good money at the box office, it was a critical bomb (a staggering 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes!) that almost everyone hated. That's because it was a sci-fi movie with no real action, adventure, or exploration. Of course, the studio couldn't market Passengers because what indeed it is: a horror movie where Chris Pratt's penis is a monster trying to kill you.
Well then youpersonally, but Jennifer Lawrence. You see, this is the movie where Pratt's character wakes up 90 years early on a sleeper ship. As his loneliness grows, he finally awakens Lawrence's early character. He's just hoping to find friendship, but he doesn't seem to realize the immorality of abandoning another disabled person, of being separated from the soul. Because of this, Passengers (now streaming on Netflix) is a sci-fi horror movie. However, it's weirdly good to show other people for one reason: how they react to Pratt's decision to wake Lawrence up early shows how much you can trust your friends and family!
The Creepers Will Go
The concept of use Passengers like the Rorschach test for friends is important to me because I did it completely by accident. Years ago, I was discussing this movie with a young friend who had made the bold decision to live with an older woman and father her three children (I promise, this factoid will be important later). My friend said that the decision made by Pratt's character is understandable; after all, this character was so lonely and depressed that he even thought about killing himself. However, I maintained that waking up Lawrence's character early was manipulative and cruel, resulting in someone else living a life of depression and isolation.
Our debate is over Passengers effectively became a sympathetic argument. My friend sympathized with Pratt's character and wondered how he would feel about living his entire life without human interaction. For my friend, waking up a woman to be a friend was an understandable act of desperation. Meanwhile, I empathized with Lawrence's character, telling myself that I hate being someone who is forced to live alone because someone can't keep it in their pants. A few months after our debate, my friend got a new job far away, and his girlfriend drove him hundreds of miles, where they seriously planned to buy a house together. A good ending, right?
A Movie That Rewards Bad Choices
Nah. He fell in love with a girl at his new gig within a week of moving in and dumped the woman (who had three children whom he saw as his father) he was in love with. years. When it happened, my first thought was our quarrel Passengers. As it turns out, he really is it was like Pratt's character at the end of the day: someone who can hurt anyone if they're lonely and lonely enough.
Now, the internet be filled with many different perspectives to explore those in your life in strange situations. This includes everything from silly things (“would you still love me if I were a worm?”) to wildly controversial things (“do you prefer a bear or a man?”). However, most of these theories are a stupid way to learn anything useful about my friends and family. But the situation is Passengers it's so meaty and compelling that it's like an ethical word problem brought to life. For Pratt's character, the question is whether he has a reason to resurrect Jennifer Lawrence's character because she is about to kill herself.
An Argument That Makes You Want to Scream
To me, Pratt not fixed. Sure, I felt bad for the guy, but he made a deliberate choice to share his grief with someone else. That would be bad if she had just woken up another man to have someone to date, pretending to be just another guy. However, he deliberately arouses someone he finds attractive in the hope that they will have sex. Textbook manipulation and, spoilers, they do keep connecting. The movie portrays this as a happy ending, but this is it It's always sunny “For the sake of explanation” the thing played very hard.
Still, my friend who so passionately defended Pratt's character? Soon after, he ended up making his own selfish decision in the name of a rare find, destroying an existing relationship he had spent the better part of a decade cultivating. Actually, Passengers he revealed something dark about this fellow's personality, and it didn't take him long to show his character. Want to find out which of your friends and family you can really trust? Then hold the remote control tightly because Passengers is currently streaming on Netflix.
