#Iwatched an extended 2:30 cut of #TheMartian (2015), a scifi robinsonade based on a book by Andy Weir (who is also the author of #ProjectHailMary). This film is only 11 years old, but it might as well be from another world. One in which the US still believed in itself. Its unflinching optimism only hindered by some niggling bureaucrats. Where a young guy with a can-do attitude and some sarcastic humour could macgyver any problem and he didn't even know the meaning of the word "male loneliness".






