The Martian
2015
film · 2015 · 11 min read
The Martian
Science as Survival Prayer
Directed by Ridley Scott
Watney doesn't pray. He solves. Each problem solved is an act of radical faith in human reason over cosmic indifference — and the film argues this is the more rigorous form of devotion. Mars is the koan. The response is methodology.
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