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calm down edgelords, the whole point of society is that it’s not survival of the fittest. literally the point is that we’re leveraging our collective strengths to lead to better outcomes for everyone. we’ve been doing it for a couple thousand years now
The survival strategy our species dumped all its skill points in is cooperation and community. Don’t like it? Walk into the woods and die mad about it.
she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.
Believe in the Hail Mary!
Obsessed with primary-colors association to Grace. I have a theory that it's because it's a call-back to his initial outfit as a teacher, I've noticed that these colors appear especially when he's in a teaching-context. I love you Glyn Dillon & everyone in the costume department
i know its not an original thought, but im losing it about how Eva Stratt was also a sacrificial lamb. Like she did all that to Grace while laying down on the altar next to him. she dragged him there kicking and screaming and then calmly placed her own neck on the chopping block.
Stratt knew exactly what was being done to her and accepted it immediately. Grace had no idea what was being done to him and couldn't accept it. Stratt turned her love for the world into sacrifice. Grace showed his love for the world by clinging to it with all his might.
they are such good foils for each other. he is kind and soft and she is ruthless and sharp but for both of them its love. Its love all the way down. They love the world, they love humanity.
been phm pilled since I read it last summer so here’s a funny that’s been living in my brain since then
full thing below
Something that gnaws at my brain is how when Grace sacrifices returning to Earth and turns around to save Rocky, the scene isn’t even the slightest bit somber.
He’s effectively flying toward his own death and Two of Us is playing, he’s chilling with a coffee while wrapped in a cozy quilt, he’s playing with the xenonite figures and counting down the days on a calendar. On Earth he was taken away fighting and screaming and crying, but with Rocky not only did he find someone worth dying for, he found someone he’d die for with a smile on his face.
Project Hail Mary's National Flags
It looks like the PHM art department originally had 17 national flags on the mission patch (+2 corners potentially of obscured nonspecific flags). 4 flags were cut from the jumpsuits in the film, leaving awkward spacing gaps and bringing it down to 13. Only 11 made it to the official merch, where they spaced them out evenly.
National flags of PHM, clockwise starting from upper left:
1. Czech Republic
2. India* — cut from merch
3. Russia** — cut from film + merch
4. USA
5. China** — cut from film + merch
6. Japan
7. France
8. Malaysia** — cut from film + merch
9. Australia** — cut from film + merch
10. Italy [flags flip orientation at this point]
11. South Korea
12. Ireland
13. Canada
14. Mexico* — cut from merch
15. Germany
16. United Kingdom
17. Brazil
All 17 are seen on Grace's polo shirt and t-shirt, possibly because they didn't have a NASA logo and therefore weren't subject to US government approval. The jumpsuit patches have spaces in the exact spots certain flags were previously, so I suspect they either didn't get NASA approval before filming or NASA's decision was revised sometime during post-production and the flags had to be blacked out by editors.
When Grace starts the "WHO AM I?" board, he writes "Carl... (foggy)", but when we come back to it at the end (before he's started erasing it to plan out going back to Rocky) it says "Carl... (fog )". I think there's a pretty obvious gap, and nothing surrounding it has been rubbed off. The last two letters of "foggy" have been intentionally erased.
The marine layer (fog) that hangs over the San Francisco Bay Area is named Karl. Seriously, a significant portion of Bay Area residents (especially millenial or younger) call the fog "Karl" in casual conversation. All the time. I've heard it. It is very confusing at first.
I don't think Grace ever remembered Carl well enough to be certain he existed. He erased the "-gy" in "foggy" because he thought maybe he was just thinking of the fog. He likes the fog. He still doesn't remember having one single true friend on Earth. He likes the fog.
its a long journey to erid
One of my favorite exchanges in the movie:
Ryland: I was wrong about the only original idea I ever had.
Eva: What else have you learned?
Kind of goes hard. Like, please snatch growth from the jaws of defeat and dust yourself off, sir. There's more to you than that.
not even just that. she opens that statement with the most dismissive "yeah" ive eve heard. like yeah okay who cares about your ego. lets get back up, theres work to do.
i don't know if someones already said this but it always fucks me up how the thing Eva Stratt chose to be brave for was Earth and EVERYONE on it
Project Hail Mary karaoke scene, my beloved.
Distressed Ryland Grace crawls up the mountain asking his mysterious higher being for reassurance. (After a whole tap dance of self-deprecation...) He is terrified of the finality, mortality, uncertainty of everything. He is gently told to have faith. He salutes. Mission accepted, he works on his files at the bar.
It could end there. But.
Previously impervious higher being descends from the mountain among her people, stepping over the protective line in the sand that spells "easy" and accepts that this mission cannot simply be a job. She packs her soft underbelly into a song, grief and fear and connection and the personal. She points. I am talking to you. Seriously. Have faith. This is us, this is about the point of it all. Life. Higher being turned mortal.
And he beams. Fully engaged. He makes the most devastating secret-third-thing heart eyes. This. If he can't quite move past his doubts, his faith in the mission is at least entirely threaded in his faith in her.
It's not enough to give him faith in himself, though she tries. But it's enough that, when he understands his purpose at Tau Ceti, he never questions the mission itself. He gets to work.
One of my favorite exchanges in the movie:
Ryland: I was wrong about the only original idea I ever had.
Eva: What else have you learned?
Kind of goes hard. Like, please snatch growth from the jaws of defeat and dust yourself off, sir. There's more to you than that.
Eva Stratt carrying around Grace like a stuffed animal.
"Look what I found in the dumpster. He figured out how to breed astrophage so I can fuel my Hail Mary. This makes him the most valid person in the world and I have the power to decide that. Isn't he the bestest and most specialest and wonderfullest little scientist around? He talks like that because he's a teacher. You will get used to it. Or else. He is doing so well. Look at him. Clap for him. I said clap for him."
Eva Stratt didn't send Grace into space to die.
The death of the astronauts was never the point. They will all die, and most more horribly than whatever method the Hail Mary crew can choose in space eventually. But they were send on a mission.
She sends Grace because she has full faith that he can do something deeply meaningful there with the time he is given.
She is not sacrificing his life. She is sacrificing his choice to refuse. Because she loves the entirety of their planet more than his ability to choose where to die.
But, at least in the movie, it is act of faith in him that is absolutely immense. It is also an act of love.
She knows that he will find his feet, that he will put himself to work, that he will make his best effort to find answers, in whatever way his unique and agile brain can. And that he will find meaning it that, too. Because he is a fundamentally good and brave person, underneath the constant, deflecting, terrified insecurity.
There is no universe where he could have lived in peace, free of crippling (justified) shame, had he gotten his way and stayed. Not with a quantifiable cost of human lives attached, running in the billions, just from the delay alone. His life was over the moment of the explosion. The choice to go existed and it was always going to be the full realization of Ryland Grace as a person, or his obliteration. The way he draws up his glasses, pulls on his hat, retreating into an empty shell, "I don't have it in me", that was a kind of death, too.
"This may seem like me betraying you, but it's actually me believing in you."
"You'll do great, you know who you are."
When Grace buries Yao and Ilyukhina, the most meaningful thing he can find to say about these strangers is "You were very loved". And they were. It's why they went.
But so was he. In so far as faith in the best parts of a person, the refusal to let them be destroyed, can be a variant of love.
ohhh my god.
