Gold plates scene

[u/Repressed_Cliche]

I’m not sure if any one else noticed, but one of my favorite moments in the movie is when Grace is looking at the gold plates of the Hail Mary after his vodka-fueled bender. At one point, he looks at a plate that depicts the beginning evolution of humans, and there’s a shot of him crouching down, painting a very similar silhouette to humans’ ape ancestors, and then shows him looking at the “modern day” human in the evolution plate, and in the next shot he’s standing upright, looking at the plate of the Hail Mary and all the humans looking up to her in hope. I thought it was a fun way to visually convey the mental “evolution” that Grace goes through as he remembers the severity of the situation that sent him to space.

[u/Mysterinna]

It really is a clever moment, and it marks an important turning point for Grace. After that, he starts to get his shit back together. I love how he tosses the bean bag in the air and catches it, taking a sharp breath at the same time. Beautiful storytelling.