SF Cinema in the Age of Trump: Project Hail Mary, part 1
I LOVE to analyse books, film and TV, it's definitely a thing I enjoy, and thus I bring you this post. ... I've just realised that that title makes it sound as if I'm starting a series now. Well, I suppose I could, if the occasion presents itself again! Why am I really writing this now? I went to see Project Hail Mary recently and it got me thinking about why this film has had the reception it has: I feel that these are some overheated takes. These people's minds seem cooked, as if their takes went in the microwave and came out at the temperature of the sun. I have even seen attempts to argue that this is the best SF film of the century, which... I know attention is what we're all mining these days, but seriously ? I think this kind of fawning has a lot to do with the current Trumpian moment we're in, rather than the inherent merits of the film or source material novel. What is Project Hail Mary ? As per Wikipedia : Project Hail Mary is a 2021 hard sc...
