UNRULY!

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[UNRULY! @quintus___]

So I just finished watching Project Hail Mary. And if I had to do this whole review in just three words, it would be, “Amaze, amaze, amaze.” What a movie! 😂

It begins with Ryland Grace waking up from an induced coma aboard a spacecraft with no memory of who he is, where he is, or why he’s there. The opening scene is just genius because we’re dropped into this confusion alongside him and have to slowly figure out and find answers to at least two or three immediately pressing questions. Two dead crewmates lie beside him. And he doesn’t even realise just yet that he’s light years away from home. With his memory gone, thoughts fragmented, he’s trying to figure out why he can’t remember his name or know where he is and then he gets to a window. And there it is. Just endless darkness, studded with stars. He’s in space😭

Of course as he starts exploring the ship, he starts recollecting in pieces. He discovers that despite having no personal memories, he still remembers science and mathematics. He remembers how to solve problems. I’m really trying to avoid spoilers, but this is a great movie that works on so many levels, it somehow manages to be smart, funny, thrilling, and surprisingly moving. That’s an incredible feat for a sci-fi movie to pull off.

Everything I’ve described about the opening sequence is even more wonderful when we get far enough into the story because Grace isn’t introduced to us as a hero. This is important. Because the story has two narratives, that of the present Ryland Grace millions of miles away from Earth concerned with humanity’s future and the other narrative of the same man’s past and the events and days before the mission. Three paragraphs deep and I’ve not even mentioned Rocky 😂❤️

A lot of my favorite scenes from the movie feature this amazing Eridian engineer or scientist that looks like a piece of rock and walks kinda like a crab but is also one of the funniest and amazing characters I’ve seen (or even read) this year. But my overall favorite has to be when Grace discovers Rocky has a mate after asking him what he misses most about home. Anyway, Rocky goes on to say they’ve been together for 186.3 years and Grace makes a joke (that Rocky doesn’t get 😂) and says that’s nice and they’ve been together a long time, yunno. To which Rocky replies, “Is not enough” 😭

Rocky is also on an interstellar mission to save his planet and like Grace, also the last living member of his team or on his spacecraft or spaceship. So, this movie is really about friendship and connection, generosity, sincerity and just the power of working together and so on. Definitely worth a watch. A few people I recommended this to already were worried about the science and technical part of it, it’s still just a movie. You’ll get it, I promise.

Another really favorite part for me was when the Sandra Hüller character sang Sign of the Times at karaoke. Loved that sm. And the scene where Grace asks her if she believes in God and she says yes, it beats the alternative. Also, there’s that scattered all through the movie. Grace as the name of the main character? Hail Mary? The moment where the two narratives finally complete and complement each other. When it all fully sinks in >>>

This is yet another adaptation I’m watching without reading the book first. But I’ll definitely read this now, maybe slowly and over time but definitely. Great story, the structure holds up, the science is clever. Andy Weir, genius that you are! ❤️

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I didn’t realize popes ever spoke like this, but it’s quite humanizing. Like, emphasizing “I play a character who is different from the real me.”

[D I K E H @iamdikeh]

I’m so happy for my brother mehn! Thank you Bruno ❤️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

McConaughey just stumbled into the most studied result in game theory and presented it as a hunch about being a good neighbor.

In 1980, a Michigan political scientist named Robert Axelrod ran a tournament. He invited mathematicians and economists to submit strategies for a game where you repeatedly choose to cooperate with someone or screw them over. Fourteen entries, some hundreds of lines of code. The one that won was four lines: cooperate on the first move, then copy whatever the other person just did.

He ran it again with 62 entries, everyone knowing it had already won. Nobody could beat it.

The traits that made it win: never defect first, punish defection, forgive fast, stay predictable. "Slowed down, let her in" is line one of that program.

Here is the part Matthew got right without knowing the math. The reason cooperating first wins, and doesn't just feel nice, comes down to what theorists call the shadow of the future. Be generous to a stranger you'll never see again and you eat the cost for nothing. Be generous to someone you'll keep running into and the move pays itself back across every interaction left to come.

He thought he was playing a one-shot game with an anonymous driver on a highway. He was playing a repeated game with a neighbor. Same road every day, same faces, decades in front of both of them.

That is why the favor returned in 15 minutes, and why it keeps returning. A highway full of strangers looks like the one place generosity gets wasted. In a small enough world there are no strangers, only people who haven't repaid you yet.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.

Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.

After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.

This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.

Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

Intellectual topic 👏

[Young OG @IDM_001]

@DAMIADENUGA Nothing concern this egbon

He just Dey Aura farm 😂

[UNRULY! @quintus___]

@HammedAnim99628 @dknl_xxl @peace_igho They don tear your shirt 😂
Why you sef go ask that kind question?

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

You are definitely not my mate. I’ll be 62 years old in October. 😂

[UNRULY! @quintus___]

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[A.A🎨 @Ab0od0o]

@Phatbabeluuu Portable get like 6wifes btw 😂

[OLUCHI🫦 ( you have no funder) @Phatbabeluuu]

Kolu dey get message from women in big numbers but you think Ugo is lying.

[Gidi @tayo_billz]

I didn’t find onion chicken so I got ……..

[UNRULY! @quintus___]

God abeg! 💔 My mutuals no dey see my own posts but na every fkn repost and every sick joke 😂 una dey see and like and engage. If you can see this, like and rt my shit abeg. Check highlights!

Or send me a DM if you wanna do notis

[Mo🩷 @FourEyedBae]

I have been sayingggggg
There is always something different about the way a guy fucks you after a fight

[DMT 🌎💫 @thisisdmt01]

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[Molara Wood @molarawood]

Saw "My Father's Shadow". An elegy of a film, and with a poignant use of The Lijadu Sisters' famous dirge. Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù has such a cinematic face, every aspect of it is an expression, a story, a feeling. The camera lingers on him, the camera loves him. A paean to 1990s' Lagos.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

fucking crazy how they can endlessly resurrect anything

[UNRULY! @quintus___]

@solidmoses001 @flames_collins 😂😂 You no suppose even allow one drop touch you

[Dami’ Adenuga @DAMIADENUGA]

Iya alakara yen tu fisi sa 😂