I do hope those who venture out to see Project Hail Mary will let what the picture says about devotion and sacrifice wash over them -- not just because it's timely, but because it's "timeless."
Reluctant astronaut Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), whose self-negation is tested by the mind-boggling challenge facing him, finds his previously untapped heroic gene as he searches among the stars for a cure for sure interspecies destruction with an alien scientist who, craftily enough, doesn't look even remotely humanoid but whose natural generosity and benevolence ignite Grace's own.
It's a wonderful, nearly brilliant conceit that, to maybe be a tad more judgmental than is needed, eclipses the televised sanctimony that is long on "talk" and short on "action."
Nowhere and at no time does the film mention John 15:13 -- there is no greater love than to sacrifice oneself to save another -- because the idea does not begin and end with the Teacher. And I welcome that notion.
Project Hail Mary -- I think the irony of the title being a prayer for intercession in the face of impossible odds is deliberate -- is a testament to conscious, active, genuine goodness that extends beyond the smallness of religious sects and their creeds and confessions.
And I say "Amen" to that.
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