Doesn't he say "There you are"? I was SOBBING too hard to make it out, I think. I was also fully expecting her to die because I did not think the movie could be THAT awesome.
I was SO sure she was going to die. There is no way a woman gets to do that stuff and not die self-sacrificingly!
He makes a bunch of what I frankly think of as comforting Minnesotan noises, which may be part of why I was face-clutching. It's just, like, mild soothing nonsense sounds like "there" and "okay" over and over. It was so warm. It gave me so many emotions.
Yeah, and they all are apparently sick and they KNOW they're going to die, so why not die in a way that makes your life meaningful? If your life sucks, why not go out in a blaze of glory? If there's nothing else. It makes perfect sense.
One thing I honestly liked was that given their situation, their economy and their politics kind of made a lot of sense? Like, blood transfusions do help with radiation sickness, and in Extremely Difficult Situations the human demographic curve is "something will get you as a child, or it will get you right after young adulthood", but there's often a gap in the middle, so leaning HARD on a culture of teenage-twenties men who consider themselves disposable makes mathematical sense. One thing I was wondering about, too, and am not sure if this was a plot point - there is some research about human breastmilk attacking cancer cells in a petri dish, so maybe that's part of what's keeping the ruling group going and why they care so much about keeping a lady farm? Someone on Tumblr (roachpatrol) was asking why they don't have bicycles given the resource scarcity, but 1) a bicycle in a desert yikes 2) they're living right on top of a functioning oil well, and people who live right by oil wells will probably still be driving jeeps a hundred years after the rest of us have re-learned how efficient donkey transport can be.
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I was SO sure she was going to die. There is no way a woman gets to do that stuff and not die self-sacrificingly!
He makes a bunch of what I frankly think of as comforting Minnesotan noises, which may be part of why I was face-clutching. It's just, like, mild soothing nonsense sounds like "there" and "okay" over and over. It was so warm. It gave me so many emotions.
Yeah, and they all are apparently sick and they KNOW they're going to die, so why not die in a way that makes your life meaningful? If your life sucks, why not go out in a blaze of glory? If there's nothing else. It makes perfect sense.
One thing I honestly liked was that given their situation, their economy and their politics kind of made a lot of sense? Like, blood transfusions do help with radiation sickness, and in Extremely Difficult Situations the human demographic curve is "something will get you as a child, or it will get you right after young adulthood", but there's often a gap in the middle, so leaning HARD on a culture of teenage-twenties men who consider themselves disposable makes mathematical sense. One thing I was wondering about, too, and am not sure if this was a plot point - there is some research about human breastmilk attacking cancer cells in a petri dish, so maybe that's part of what's keeping the ruling group going and why they care so much about keeping a lady farm? Someone on Tumblr (roachpatrol) was asking why they don't have bicycles given the resource scarcity, but 1) a bicycle in a desert yikes 2) they're living right on top of a functioning oil well, and people who live right by oil wells will probably still be driving jeeps a hundred years after the rest of us have re-learned how efficient donkey transport can be.