I love the ending of the movie and how it's so wholesome that Stratt gets to receive the message and still has enough power to direct the saving of earth.
But ☝️I feel like it kinda dismisses a part of her integral character and creates a perception divide between people who only watched the movie and people who read the book?
Eva Stratt was on her own suicide mission, because she would die after the Hail Mary launched. Well, first sentenced to lifetime in prison without parole and be publicly slandered and demoted from all her power. BUT she managed to piss off almost EVERY leader and corporation and when the end of the world approaches and you have a strong powerful woman as a convenient scapegoat, you really think they're gonna have enough mercy not to mutilate her in her cell?
She was bossy enough that the workers under her would be able to just say they were just following orders. She was involved everywhere because she wanted to be the name associated with the project because she was taking the fall for it all. She was a genie in the bottle allowed power but forced to come back and be punished after the project was done.
Do you think she saw herself in him? Crying and sobbing to be allowed to live. Due to her harsh perspective on life, do you think she found him weak, humiliating? Do you think she hated herself for it, because she went besides herself and got to know him? Nothing would save her from her fate, at least he got to be remembered for his.
