Passengers

[The Twilight Mexican]

Not only that, but the overused references to

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Stockholm Syndrome imply that Chris Pratt's character is both in control of their surroundings (he's a prisoner too, Jesus Cristo) and threatening, outright abusing or otherwise intimidating J-Law's character -- leading her mind to, as a survival mechanism, induce neurological and hormonal activity that will make her feel affection for him. Thus, my issue with that insipid comparison.

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The circumstances are extraordinary, but it's a fundamentally callous act.

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I'd call it a fundamentally desperate one given the circumstances.

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If someone's willing to wake you up from cryosleep in that such a situation, it's not unreasonable to assume that they'd kill you for not returning their affection once woken up (whether out of actual malice or insanity).

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Well, I see what you're driving at, but will have to respectfully disagree. The line of reasoning you're suggesting in, my mind, would be like the betrayed wife saying "You were willing to let me live a lie for the rest of my life/waste my life rather than find true partnership and loyalty, so it's not unreasonable for me to think you would also end my life."

Sounds bonkers to me, but that's just me.

 

[HylianMogget]

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The circumstances are extraordinary, but it's a fundamentally callous act.

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I'd call it a fundamentally desperate one given the circumstances.

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Oh, definitely, I agree. And I think desperation would be the factor that would drive someone to do it. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, though. It'd be an awful situation to be in and I'm not trying imply that I'd be able to live in isolation and not wake someone up if I were in such a situation. It'd be a shitty thing to do, but I think what makes the quandary so interesting is it's understandable why someone would do it. The dilemma pretty much asks would you literally kill yourself before potentially ruining someone's life/what would you do if the only way to make yourself happy was to make someone else fundamentally unhappy? Aspects of the dilemma sort of reminds me of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", at least in the what is happiness worth sense.

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If someone's willing to wake you up from cryosleep in that such a situation, it's not unreasonable to assume that they'd kill you for not returning their affection once woken up (whether out of actual malice or insanity).

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Well, I see what you're driving at, but will have to respectfully disagree. The line of reasoning you're suggesting in, my mind, would be like the betrayed wife saying "You were willing to let me live a lie for the rest of my life/waste my life rather than find true partnership and loyalty, so it's not unreasonable for me to think you would also end my life."

Sounds bonkers to me, but that's just me.

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I get what you're saying, and I guess what I'm getting at is something like that, I'm just not sure I think the cheating analogy entirely fits here even though both situations involve dishonesty. With the cryosleep situation the two people are the only human interaction each of them will ever have for the rest of their lives and the extraordinary circumstances add pressure that might not crop up otherwise. I mean, imagining myself as the person woken up I certainly wouldn't want to piss off the only other person around who woke me up expecting me to provide companionship.

I dunno if I'm really making what I'm trying to get at clear here, because I'm tired and can't properly elaborate on things .

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

You're making sense.

 

[Pixel]

I might go see this today. Im not too sure about dealing with the Christmas crowd in town though. I've read a few reviews, but I'd like to make up my own mind about it.