Project Hail Mary: Rock & Roll | Spoiler-Free Review
- A.J. Sobel
- Mar 17
- 1 min read
The adaptation of Andy Weir's third novel, Project Hail Mary, is releasing this Friday. I've seen an early screening: Let's talk about why it's incredible!
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Good review. With all due respect, I think your remarks about the filmmakers “infantilizing” Rocky are misplaced, maybe even species-ist. It can be just as easily argued that Rocky displays the childlike enthusiasm that every human displays prior to the onset of pre-adolescent social insecurities. There’s no scientific reason why an alien of advanced years and experience must be chill and somber. That’s just how humans act, except when they’re in a very high-trust environment. Eridians foster their childlike wonder. Also, the cat-and-mouse cartoon physics at first contact seemed to me a kind of wink from the director, setting up the inevitability of the inter-species encounter. From a literary perspective, Rocky’s guileless behaviors in person and even in piloting his…