• cobysev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think the music is incredible and the story itself was amazing… but the whole film is a slow trudge to get to its point. I wish it had more substance instead of just dragging us along on sidequests to get to the climax.

    When Anne Hathaway’s character started going off about love being the most powerful thing in the universe or something, I started tuning out. You have all these scientists, supposedly logical and rational people, who are fighting to save humanity from extinction, and you wanna trust in an emotional concept like love to guide you?! Nope, credibility revoked.

    If memory serves, I think her argument was to save a loved one who was sent on a potentially suicidal mission by himself to another planet. Instead of picking a logical course to a planet that might be good for humanity, she wanted to go after her lover and save him. Which might doom humanity.

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      1 year ago

      I agree that the “love” argument was poorly stated, and framed in a stupid way (as a force, really?).

      But I think it ultimately makes sense, in a Richard Dawkins’ Selfish Gene kind of way. Our species has strong pro-social tendencies, where we are willing to put in huge amounts of labor, resources, and sacrifice for loved ones. In the aggregate, across large populations, that can add up to some pretty powerful emergent group behavior that adds up to something that is difficult to model through its individual components. Our species has done some amazing things, and will probably continue to do amazing things, motivated by a bunch of emotions that include what we call “love.”