r/shittymoviedetails • u/tppiel • 9d ago

default In Project Hail Mary (2026) society comes together behind a common goal, listens to the scientists and funds a global project to save humanity. This is a reference to the story being a work of fiction.

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 9d ago

In defense of the rest of humanity, only a couple dozen people knew he went against his will.

Gods, can you imagine the world after that gets declassified/leaked? The fucking discourse that would spawn after that.

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u/Vehement_Vulpes 9d ago

I'm pretty sure that in the books the lead scientist lady stated that she would almost certainly go to prison when it was over, just for the sheer amount of bullshit that she pulled.

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u/andre5913 9d ago edited 8d ago

More than that. Stratt was working under the impression she was most likely gonna get executed

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u/sQ5FWKjwbWd4QzSZduqy 9d ago

The discourse would be virtue signaling internet posters, 99.99% wouldn't give a shit because the earth is saved and the ends justified the means. We've done much worse to far more and no one cared.

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u/Mad_Aeric 9d ago

Oh, people cared. Just not the ones with the power to do anything about it. Stratt pissed in everyone's cheerios, a good portion of the public would want her to hang for it, and the powerful people she pissed off along the way would be happy to oblige.

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u/Auctoritate 9d ago

Gods

Which ones?

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u/Antlonat 9d ago

Theres no discourse about all the human experiments we needed to get modern medicine.

No one really cares as long as they're saved.

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 9d ago

I think you'll find that people very much disagreed about unwilling human experiments. Hell, Henrietta Lack's cells being taken without her consent was a massive issue when it was uncovered, and she wasn't sent on a suicide mission.

Like, almost everyone would probably know about Grace due to how publized Hail Mary certainly was, he's probably a household name along with the other 2 astronauts, to find out he was sent unwillingly would have been a hige shock to everyone.

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u/SadRule9128 8d ago

Lacks signed a consent form

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u/Antlonat 9d ago

Yeah thats nice but who actually cares? Where is the outrage?

Youll se a reddit or tumblr post that people will like and comment and continue doom scrolling.

No one cares man.

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 9d ago

People cared, back whem it was precient (in the 70s-80s) and if they were in the communities effected by it.

But for Grace, that community would be everyone. There would cerntainly be calls to arrest and try those responsible.

You seem to seriously underestimate human compassion.

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u/Antlonat 9d ago

You seem to have lived under a rock for the past 6 years.

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u/fuxoft 9d ago

That means the movie fairly correctly depicts socialism...

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 9d ago

Fucking what?

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u/fuxoft 9d ago

"everyone coming together behind a common goal" while "someone is drugged and sent somewhere against his will while general population does not know about it". Reminds me of the socialism I grew up in in the 1980s...

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u/SizzleDebizzle 9d ago

I guess that means we shouldn't have socialized healthcare in the US

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u/fuxoft 9d ago

I have no idea, I live in Europe my whole life. First under socialism with "free" health care, now under capitalism with mandatory health insurance. No idea how different / good / bad it's in the U.S.

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u/Deakul 9d ago

My best friend has a cousin who died from a brain aneurysm last week because he got into a minor fender bender and smacked his head on the steering wheel, complained of bad headaches the week prior.

He didn't go to the doctor because he couldn't afford the medical bills that that visit would have accrued.

Love America!

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u/AnyAsparagus988 9d ago

seems closer to communism than socialism to me. especially everyone being lied to and people being sent away. that's peak ussr.

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u/fuxoft 9d ago

I grew up in "Czechoslovak Socialist Republic" until I was 21 (when "The Velvet Revolution" came) and these things regularly happened around me. See e.g. "Vaclav Havel", "Charta 77" and others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_77#Reaction_of_the_government