![]() ![]() However, this moral battle he has with himself is the outline and basis of every thing and every moral humans hold dear to their hearts. At the end of the day, he seems to favor the pre-conventional stage where he makes decisions based on punishment because if he didn’t wake up Aurora, he would be alone. The beginning of the movie and some middle portions focus on Jim’s constant battles bouncing back and forth between these three stages of moral development, trying to figure out what he should or shouldn’t do. The latter is called the post-conventional stage and is the stage that Kohlberg believes very few people reach. The stage where we base decisions on punishments, the stage where we base decisions on rules, and the stage where we base decisions on what we believe is right or wrong. A famous psychologist, Lawrence Kohlberg, broke moral development and existentialism into 3 distinct stages. Life is a moral, existential quest, and now more than ever our moral decisions affect whether people will live or die. We face discussions on abortion, the death penalty, war, et cetera because the list goes on forever. In many situations in life, we are faced with this decision of what is right or wrong when it comes to others’ lives. It takes Jim over a year to wake up Aurora because he can’t decide if he should, since in doing so, he is essentially sentencing her to death since she would not ever make it to Homestead II. Whether or not flaws exist in the plot line or character development, the movie details the moral quests humans experience in everyday life. However, I loved the plot and am happy to tell you why. Comments can be found here, if interested in the negative reviews. The plot is where a lot of critics tried to nitpick the movie to death, as shown in the quote in the intro paragraph. They then live happily ever after for the next however many years, until they die on the spaceship because they woke up way too early. She goes out into space, brings him back into the ship, and revives him on the high-tech infirmary table, somehow restarting his heart. He dies during the mission due to his space suit cracking and releasing oxygen, and Aurora then realizes she loves him-despite her infuriation with him dooming her to live the rest of her life on the ship. Their love then takes a nose dive until the Avalon almost experiences total system failure and Jim risks his life to save the ship. They fall in love and have a blooming romance until Arthur spills the beans that Jim woke her up on purpose. Eventually, after a little over a year of being awake alone with nobody to talk to but Arthur, the amazing bartender, he decides to wake up the girl of his dreams, Aurora. The basic plot of the film is that Jim is awoken from his hypobaric chamber many years prior to when he is supposed to be awakened, this mistake is due to system failure on the spaceship Avalon during its trek to Homestead II. The last review aspect I am going to focus on is the plot. But, the characters were still amazing and perfectly cast. In retrospect, however, the characters were not developed to the fullest extent that they could have been. Lastly, Arthur, the robotic bartender (played by Martin Sheen), was the show stealer due to his incredible wit and human-like behaviors that allowed him to become a best friend to Aurora and Jim. If you have ever seen “Silver Linings Playbook”, you will understand what I mean. Aurora was played by Jennifer Lawrence and, well, basically that's all you need to know. Jim (played by Chris Pratt), was the embodiment of your everyday handyman-both in regard to emotion and behavior. The characters in the movie were incredibly lovable and amazing. ![]()
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