The Passengers
Just your standard disaster on an a spaceship story. I won't be in a hurry to watch another.
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Also, acting apparently isn't a craft that has thrived in the interstellar future: Although "Passengers" has its problems and doesn't quite deliver on the social and ethical issues it attempts to drive, the film has spectacular visual effects and is a real thrill ride. Big money behind big special effects tends to suggest a big story. Instead this huge edifice is like one of those over huge luxury condos that're empty in every American town, pretending as if there's a local economy huge enough to support such.
This leaves it up to the charisma of the 3 leads to sustain this and, credit to them all, they almost pull it off. More Top Movies Trailers. DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Black Panther Dominates Honorees. Trending on RT Avengers: Post Share on Facebook. View All Videos 2. Movie Info Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt star in an exciting action-thriller about two passengers who are on a year journey to another planet when their hibernation pods wake them 90 years too early.
Jim and Aurora are forced to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction as the ship teeters on the brink of collapse, with the lives of thousands of passengers in jeopardy. Jennifer Lawrence as Aurora Lane. Chris Pratt as Jim Preston. Michael Sheen as Arthur. Laurence Fishburne as Gus Mancuso. Andy Garcia as Captain Norris. Vince Foster as Executive Officer. Kara Flowers as Communications officer. Conor Brophy as Crew Member. Julee Cerda as Instructor Hologram. Aurora Perrineau as Best Friend.
Lauren Farmer as Party Friend. Emerald Mayne as Party Friend. Also included are letters, pamphlets and newspaper articles. Limprecht gives the reader a wonderfully moving story that is also interesting and insightful, all wrapped in beautiful descriptive prose. View all 3 comments. Feb 24, Theresa Smith Writes rated it really liked it Shelves: I so enjoyed this novel, The Passengers by Eleanor Limprecht. As you all know, historical fiction is my favourite, with war stories topping my preference within the genre, particularly ones that explore the lives of those living alongside war as opposed to fighting in it , either at the home front, or in an invaded country.
I guess this qualifies loosely as both: Australia being the home front that was invaded by American Servicemen to aid in the protection of our shores. This story orbits around the phenomenon of war brides, focusing on one in particular, Sarah, a nineteen year old country girl swept off her feet in a whirlwind romance with an urge to break free from home. First, I just want to expand on the whole notion of war brides because the statistics cited within the novel are rather exceptional. In Australia alone, that population drop would have been detrimental on the back of Australian Serviceman deaths, but say it does include England, and parts of Europe, this loss of women in the childbearing age group would have still been significant for all of the nations affected.
Except for America who got a population boost. Just like collecting a parcel. She was quite a complex character. In some ways, very typical of her era: Yet, Sarah was also a modern young woman who wanted more out of life. This novel is split between eras, but not in the traditional way. Sarah is on a cruise as an eighty-something, returning to Australia after more than sixty years to reunite with the family she has left. Accompanying her is her granddaughter, Hannah.
All throughout the journey, Sarah tells Hannah her life story, and this is where the past and present collide. I liked the way this all came together, the sharing of memories within a storytelling context.
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It bridged the years well and flowed beautifully, unfolding at a well evened pace. Her self-hatred really began to wear me down, and I got to the end of the novel feeling no different about her. Everything else seemed a distraction. The reasons for it seemed misappropriated and I felt her issues ran deeper than what was alluded to.
Overall, The Passengers is an exceptionally good read. There were times when Eleanor Limprecht had me spellbound by her beautiful prose.
The difficulties associated with migrating alone to a new country, married to a man you hardly knew, with the expectation of assimilation into a never before met family, were well explored. It showcases the strong imagery Eleanor infuses into her narrative, and gives a good sense of Sarah, when she was quite possibly at her lowest. It was in the trenches of New Guinea, maybe, the jungle prison, the rotting wounds of men.
Roy in the dark park, kneeling before me in the damp grass. Instead it was the flies on the filmy-eyed horses, the knowledge that life would never seem so full of possibility again. May 13, Kate Forsyth rated it it was amazing Shelves: A young woman and her grandmother travel on a cruise together from the USA to Australia. For Sarah, it is a journey to the country of her birth, a place she has not seen since she left as a war bride in the s.
For Hannah, it is a chance to leave behind old hurts and discover a new land. Each tell their own story, in their own voices, each regretting mistakes they have made and people they have left behind. Times are hard, and A young woman and her grandmother travel on a cruise together from the USA to Australia. Times are hard, and her father sells the farm and moves his family to Sydney. Sarah is forced to leave her beloved cattle dog behind. She finds work, and dreams of marriage, putting a white dress on layby.
Sydney is full of American soldiers. There are fights and dances and flirtations. She falls in love and marries, and has just one night with her new husband before he is shipped out to Papua New Guinea. When the war ends, Sarah must leave her home and family and travel thousands of kilometres to a place she has never been, to live with a man she hardly knows. As Sarah tells her story to her granddaughter, Hannah reveals some of her own secret vulnerabilities.
Slowly the two stories echo and reflect each other, in clear lucid prose that glows with its own inner light. Apr 19, Kali Napier rated it it was amazing Shelves: I loved this book. The writing and story structure are elegant, and I was emotionally invested in the characters of Sarah and her granddaughter Hannah, as they both undertake voyages that required immense leaps of faith.
The storylines interweave, with Sarah relating her memories of her voyage from Sydney to Virginia as a WW2 war bride. The historical detail here is deep and illuminating, and I really felt the nerves that so many thousands of women must have experienced, leaving behind their hom I loved this book. The historical detail here is deep and illuminating, and I really felt the nerves that so many thousands of women must have experienced, leaving behind their homes and families for a new life based on what might have been fleeting romances and decisions made in extraordinary circumstances of war.
Food is a recurrent motif in both these women's stories. For Sarah, each new step on her adventure out into a wider world away from the family farm is observed through the food she ate -- her innocent joy over discovering a BLT! Both stories showed for me how women are often reduced to their body -- as a sex object or domestic drudge, and that not much has changed.
There is a lovely line about the past appearing prettier than it was, in memory and also in historical fiction. Some of my favourite scenes in The Passengers were those of Sarah's hardships on a Virginian tobacco farm, reminiscent of The Grapes of Wrath. Mar 20, Cass Moriarty rated it really liked it.
Moving between the present and the past, the narrative takes us on two sea journeys across the world, seventy years apart. Married young, and in the midst of conflict, Sarah travelled to join her American husband, never imagining the years that would pass before she ventured Home, or the secrets and lies she would keep close to avoid hurting her family. Hannah has her own demons — she lists and categorises every calorie she consumes, and she controls her body and her emotions by what she puts in her mouth.
She embarks on the voyage for the sake of her grandmother, but comes to realise much about herself. The US Government paid for thousands of war brides and their children to relocate from Australia and other countries to America, the women arriving en masse like a load of chattel or possessions. The uncertainty about their new country, and even doubts about the men they had married, left them ill-prepared for their new lives. We meet Sarah as a young farm girl and grow with her through her adolescent years and into young adulthood. We travel with her to the small country town of Roanoke, USA, where she attempts to live out her fantasy of a happy marriage.
And we grieve with her through the losses of war and the collapse of some of her most important dreams. Hannah is also searching for love and for a sense of who she is and what she might become. During the contemporary journey south with Sarah, she comes to understand more about her grandmother and the life she has led, the sacrifices and choices she has made. She realises what her grandmother gave up, and what she gained, by being brave and resilient and determined. And she understands that she must also embrace these qualities, if she is to achieve her potential and overcome the challenges that she faces.
Expectations around responsibilities that seem destined to tie them forever to a certain path. But these characters persist, doggedly, to push against those expectations, and to make their own choices — decisions of self-education and formal studies and the kind of work they are able to undertake; choices about who they will love, and how, and when; and most of all, the journey of their own self-discovery, about what they need and what they want, and the steps they will take to get it. The structure of this novel connects the past to the now with a mirror reflection: We realise that we have much more in common than what sets us apart.
Jul 18, Andrea rated it liked it Shelves: Hannah is accompanying her grandmother, Sarah, on a cruise from San Diego to Sydney, so that widowed Sarah can visit the homeland she last saw 68 years earlier. As they cross the Pacific, Sarah gradually tells Hannah the story of her life some of it known, and some details revealed for the first time , including how she came to be a war-bride, and the secrets of her early years in the United States.
Hannah has some secrets of her own, and by the ti 3. Hannah has some secrets of her own, and by the time they arrive in Australia - in the final pages of the book - she seems to have found some kind of peace with her own past. Recommended for those who enjoy Australian historical fiction. Feb 01, Hannah rated it it was ok Shelves: I wanted this to be an enjoyable, easy-reading historical novel. And it started out that way. But in the end I only liked about a quarter of this book. There was an ease and lightness to the writing - the author knew what she was doing here.
It lends itself so perfectly to the genre - war, hardship, romance, the tension of the unknown, the consequences of decisions made in the heat of the moment. Alas, as Sarah reaches America the book loses its way. The writing is not as good, the plot is thin, and the characters become shallow. I wanted so much more and felt the author had more to give. Suddenly, decades are crammed into a couple of chapters, where previously a week could last 3 chapters.
A reaction I felt guilty about considering the sub plot centres around the character's mental health issues. Again, these sections felt contrived, and were a distraction from the real story. It would be a better book without it. I received this book via Goodreads Giveaways Mar 02, Lauren Chater rated it it was amazing. This is a touching and beautiful novel about the passage of time, the choices we make and the way those decisions return to haunt us throughout our lives.
Sarah and Hannah, two generations apart, are traveling to Sydney on a passenger liner. As Sarah shares the stories of her youth, from her childhood in Australia to the years spent raising a family on a farm in the United States, Hannah, her granddaughter, struggles to make sense of her place in the world and determine whether she can find happ This is a touching and beautiful novel about the passage of time, the choices we make and the way those decisions return to haunt us throughout our lives.
As Sarah shares the stories of her youth, from her childhood in Australia to the years spent raising a family on a farm in the United States, Hannah, her granddaughter, struggles to make sense of her place in the world and determine whether she can find happiness and peace. There was much to love about this book - lyrical passages of prose or description, buried in the quiet evocation of the everyday, would leap out suddenly and make the story sing.
Cool mornings in the milking shed beneath the warm belly of a cow, a walk across the marbled, flower-scented showrooms of David Jones in Sydney's bustling CBD, a fragrant orchard in the wilds of Oregon; these are the images that will stay with me after I put The Passengers on my bookshelf beside Eleanor Limprecht's other novels. Some of the darker images will be there, too; moments of broken trust, betrayal, the disappointment of dreams unfulfilled, but this is the contract we make with authors, accepting the good in characters as well as the bad, what a friend of mine today referred to as 'kintsukori', the Japanese art of mending a broken vessel, the concept of truth in life.
Sep 22, Lesley Moseley rated it liked it. Well, what a simple, story, simply written.
Might be better rated YA. The 'traumas' that they all suffered seemed very light-weight, to me. Feb 11, Ashleigh rated it really liked it. Review to come on my blog closer to release date. Mar 20, Amra Pajalic rated it it was amazing Shelves: He and his wife were married for 42 years and raised four children. In retirement, he devoted himself to his church and community. Matawan, New Jersey Age: Felt held two patents in the field of encryption technology. He enjoyed the outdoors and kept fit by swimming laps and running.
He was devoted to his wife and two daughters. On September 11, he was en route to San Francisco on a last-minute business trip. Folger was traveling with her sister-in-law and friend, Patricia Cushing, on a long-anticipated sightseeing trip to San Francisco. Jane knew and loved New York City, and since retiring, she traveled there weekly, introducing her six grandchildren to her favorite stores, theaters, museums, and cultural events.
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Elizabeth, New Jersey Age: Fraser was a passionate and tireless advocate for people with disabilities and Vice Chair of the New Jersey Developmental Disabilities Council. Fraser, who had a degree from Rutgers University, helped to draft the Americans with Disabilities Act.
She relied on a cane and a mobility scooter and is remembered for her flare, her determination, and for inspiring others. She was survived by her siblings. On September 11, Andrew Sonny Garcia was returning home from a business meeting. Garcia and his wife owned an industrial products company. He had a loving relationship with his three children and is remembered for his deep faith and sense of humor. As a young man he was fascinated with aviation, earned a degree from San Jose State University, and trained as an air traffic controller with the California Air National Guard. On September 11, Jeremy Logan Glick reluctantly left home on a business trip.
He cherished every moment at home with his high school sweetheart, now wife, and their three-month-old daughter. Glick was a talented athlete with a black belt and title of U. National Collegiate Judo Champion. He earned a degree from the University of Rochester that led to a management position with a California-based web research company. Kristin Osterholm White Gould was a published author and a freelance journalist for more than 30 years, primarily writing about medicine and science.
A graduate of Cornell University, Gould was an intellectual with an interest in literature and drama. She traveled the world and was fluent in several languages, including Latin and ancient Greek. Gould boarded Flight 93 to visit friends in California. She was survived by her daughter. Raised in Houston, the University of Texas graduate had 15 years of marketing and sales experience, and recently left her work as a consultant at Good Housekeeping magazine in order to write a book intended to inspire women to follow their dreams.
She and her husband were expecting their first child. Flight Attendant, United Airlines. Wanda Anita Green was a United Airlines flight attendant for 29 years, fulfilling her dream of seeing the world. According to her mother, Wanda was one of United's first African American flight attendants.
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An experienced pilot who was licensed at age 14, Greene worked with his adoptive father in a company that manufactured safety products for aircraft. He loved flying, sailing, and spending time with his wife and two children. Greenwood Lake, New York Age: Linda Gronlund was an attorney, an engineer, and a skilled automobile mechanic with a passion for sports car racing. On September 11, Gronlund was traveling with her boyfriend, Joseph DeLuca, to celebrate her birthday in California's wine country. She was survived by her parents and a sister.
Fish and Wildlife Service. Guadagno dedicated his life to protecting wildlife and the environment. A biology degree from Rutgers University prepared him for a year career with the U.
He was a federally-trained law enforcement officer. Guadagno was returning home from visiting his parents, sister, and extended family and the celebration of his grandmother's th birthday. After graduating from the U. His career with United Airlines began in Homer was survived by his wife and a daughter born in Toshiya Kuge was determined to become proficient in English and earn a Master's degree in engineering from an American university.
On his two-week vacation and second trip to America, the independent and outgoing college student went whitewater rafting in Canada and visited Niagara Falls and the Statue of Liberty. Flight 93 was the first leg of Kuge's journey home. He was survived by his parents and a brother.
After six years as a police officer and detective in Fort Pierce, CeeCee Ross Lyles embarked on a new career as a flight attendant, completing her training in January, The busy mother of two sons and two stepsons enjoyed the travel opportunities of her new job, and relished the time at home between flights. Her husband says Lyles was a tough, smart, and caring woman with a strong faith.
The oldest passenger on Flight 93, Hilda Marcin was traveling to spend the winter with her daughter in California. Marcin grew up in Irvington, New Jersey, married, and had two daughters. She worked for 20 years as a fund manager for a union, and then began a new career as an instructional aide for special needs children. The retired, energetic grandmother, widowed in , loved to cook and is remembered as strong and independent. Jersey City, New Jersey Age: Colleagues at the U. Census Bureau where she worked for 13 years, remember her as organized, innovative, and always smiling.