If you’ve noticed this phenomenon, even during the Covid times, there were from Scientists to Philosophers who were publishing from blogs to videos about death; that it is not the end, and this is just continuation journey; as if they’ve seen afterlife (no one has, BTW!)! But why they were doing this? The guilt factor -> to hide the unfortunate event of unleashing a deadly virus across World, and thus to mitigate the public anger, they started issuing such blogs, posts, and videos, so that people become more philosophical, and, not try to put the blame on anyone about the manufactured chaos!
Now, w.r.t. the present movie, if someone tells you that as you’ve no one, not even a dog to cry when you die (like been said in the movie), and thus you’ve been chosen to sacrifice your life for others! Then merely on this argument, would or should you sacrifice? NO! NE’ER! And this is exactly the argument Dr. Grace also gave when he was asked to sacrifice his life and to become expendable, for the mere reason that, as there was not even a dog to cry after his death, and thus, should sacrifice his life for the others and children of others! Remember, for whom? For the Oligarchs. Leaders, Dynasts, Corrupt, Terrorists, Poor, Rich, and many others on Earth, because of whom at the first place, the forever Chaos only unleashed! And honestly, Dr Grace, took the Correct Decision not to accede to this argument, because, it was humiliation for him, until of course, he was dragged and put into the spaceship for the sacrifice, to become the expendable. This is an example of when greatness is thrusted upon him, and, indeed he passed that litmus test too, because, he has a righteous soul! But imagine, what would’ve happened, had he been the only person alive in the space, and not decided to execute the indispensable specified mission, because he was put on the spaceship forcibly, and against his wish & will?
Secondly, Dr Grace truly sacrificed his life for the alien Rocky’s Planet, & NOT for Earth, because, imagine, what would’ve happened had those autonomous ships carrying the Antidote to Astrophage not reached Earth only? BUT, he was able to save Rocky as well as Rocky’s planet! That means, even his inner gut inclined to save Rocky, rather than travelling to earth by himself, making sure that the Antidote reaches safely on earth. Means, many a times, you may require the ship to be controlled Manually, and what would’ve happened had those autonomous space containers’ had collided with space rocks?
But there’s one major issue I found and that was the robust conversation between Dr Grace and alien Rocky! Means, even when we speak one language, we cannot comprehend the statements properly, and require different interpretations; so how come they both were able to execute such an important mission for collecting the samples of Antidote from the surface of a planet or sun with such a precise accuracy? Means, can anyone on earth explain to me the QUANTUM Theory with precision, despite millions of papers on it have already been published in one language?
I’m not saying that one should run away from sacrifice or greatness or duty! No! But, why you’ve been chosen and the reason given, that matters! This happened in Mickey 17 also, when the protagonist was made the expendable for the same reason, and thus, that shouldn’t have happened!
Another example contrary to the above example is The Expendables movie in itself, wherein, the mercenaries assembled to execute missions because of their PASSION, and as they LOVED doing that, and not because, they were all Single!
All said and done, a good weekend watch! 😊
© Pranav Chaturvedi