We watch Jim lose his mind. He grows a beard. He starts dressing in fancy dinner jackets just to feel human. He talks to himself. He considers suicide. This montage of loneliness is devastating. For a brief moment, Passengers feels like Cast Away in a shopping mall in space.
: The Avalon is designed with a circular philosophy, featuring rotating modules to create artificial gravity. passengers -2016-
The pivotal moment of the film—and the source of the majority of its controversy—occurs when Jim discovers Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence), a beautiful writer sleeping in a pod nearby. We watch Jim lose his mind
In the vast, cold expanse of cinematic science fiction, few settings are as evocative or as terrifying as the void of deep space. It is a place where the silence is absolute, and where the distance between points A and B is measured not in miles, but in decades. Released in December 2016, Morten Tyldum’s Passengers arrived in theaters promising a sleek, star-studded space romance. With the undeniable chemistry of Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, backed by the pristine production design of a luxury starliner, it was marketed as a cosmic love story—a Titanic among the stars. He talks to himself