Review 777: Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary opens in space in the not-to-distant future, The film is based on the novel, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (who also wrote The Martian); Astronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens on the spacecraft Hail Mary with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti system to save Earth from disaster. To do so, Grace must rely on his vast array of scientific knowledge, sheer ingenuity and human will, but he soon learns that he is not alone. The film unfolds in a nonlinear fashion and opens with a series of overhead shots as Gosling's Ryland waking up from cry-sleep. Ryland suffers from retrograde amnesia and as the film went on, I realised that the flashbacks are basically memories of his life prior to the Hail Mary, we slowly learn about his life prior to the mission. Project Hail Mary is a film about friendship, communication and how miracles are possible. The friendship that develops...
