boston, massachusetts
1970
riding the t
photograph by nick dewolf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/28869159187
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Both true.
Premise of this film, if you missed it: Pratt and Lawrence play two of many passengers on an interstellar voyage to a distant planet, however, when a malfunction occurs that causes Pratt to be prematurely released from cryogenic status (as in like 50 or 60 years away away from their destination early) he decide to break open the pod of Lawrence’s character to have someone to keep him company.
After initially trying to pretend that she had been awoken by the same fault that woke him up, she (rightly) doesn’t want anything to do with the man who effectively doomed her to live alone on a spaceship with her kidnapper for the rest of her life.
However, as the film is told from the perspective of Pratt’s character, their break-up is only temporary, and eventually they do end up spending the rest of their lives together as a couple on the ship, probably horrifying the other passengers and crew when they finally wake up and find the pair’s desiccated corpses on the observation deck.
This was definitely one of those films where the premise works better as a different genre than the one they were presenting, like how the premise of the Adam Sandler comedy 50 First Dates (where Sandler’s character meets a woman with a brain injury that causes her memory to reset each day, and he manipulates her into thinking that they’re in a long term relationship, including eventually having kids with her) was later kinda reused in the horror thriller Before I Go To Sleep, where the woman with the short-term memory disability to the protagonist rather than the dude, it’s eventually revealed over the course of the movie that he’d kidnapped her, put her in a house with faked picture evidence of their lives together and that her actual family didn’t know where she’d gone.
With Passengers the fact that they 1. centred it on Pratt’s character (hereby attempting to prime the audience to sympathise with him more than Lawrence’s character), and 2. tried to frame it as a romance film in a science fiction setting kind of made the premise more gross than if it was actually a straight horror story a la Before I Go To Sleep.
And yes, I’m aware there are several video essays on this train wreck of a movie, the above tweet just reminded me of it.
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