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#whats cool about the movie is that we get glimpses of the story outside of Rylands pov
#the book is entirely his pov and the few glimpses we DO get from other people they're all like “wait y'all are NOT fucking??”
#like yes her characterization is different to an extent but the book is filtered through Ryland who clearly has NO clue about anything
#(unless its at the end of a microscope)
#and its clear she kept him on and close (for strategic reasons) but also bc she saw his value in his humanity
#he cries he cares he moralizes and he reminds her of all the things she doesn't have the privilege of being bc they dont have time
#she makes HIM have conversations with the astronauts about their preferred method of suicide like cMON guys.
#like there is a dynamic there HE didn't clock or remotely want but other people did (I dont ship them thats just canon in the book)
#and a part of his character IS pushing people away and distancing himself and I think it'd be vert easy for his brain to -
#- in these distressing moments - immediately cast a horrible opinion of a woman who is still just trying to do her job
#she kept him on because she's a masochist and needed someone to remind her she is doing fucked up things even if it IS for the greater good
#when she does finally make the decision he will go to space she doesn't seem him for 4 days and then says horrible things to him
#like it never read to me that she hated him but that she was trying to convince herself as much as him that what she was doing was -
#- the only option. feelings and emotions aside.
#but the difference is there is no ryland grace beside her to offer counter balance and question her morality bc she's jetting him into spac
#idk their relationship in the book is so interesting and refreshing and its all so cool that its from graces pov
#and I think the movie did a good job of reminding us that she is just a person - even if to Ryland she is the stoic cold monster -
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