I saw someone on Instagram saying they disliked the karaoke scene in PHM because it “unnecessarily humanizes” Stratt when she’s supposed to be cold and uncaring and focused only on the success of the mission and like. what a thing to say. Do you think history major Eva Stratt who was tasked with saving humanity by whatever means possible and sat up every night for years poring over documents and details so that even the people she was sending to die would have the necessary comforts and every chance at success and be able to die in the way they preferred, the woman who was perfectly aware that she was the world’s whipping boy and that she was going to jail for the rest of her life after everything was over and accepted it unquestionably as long as she got to see this through to the end, the woman that talked to Grace in his cell before sending him to space about just how bad it was going to get on Earth, how much she cared about this mission’s success and the continued survival of humanity, did all of that from a cold and unfeeling heart? Eva Stratt loved humanity. She did what she did, awful as it may have been, to try and give the world a fighting chance. So yes, the movie softens her around the edges a bit, but I don’t find it the least bit unbelievable that she would choose, just for a moment, to let down her walls and sing as a parting gift to the people she was asking to die for the cause. She sang because she valued them, and she valued them because like her, they loved this species and this planet and they wanted to save it. By any means necessary.
