Project Hail Mary Didn’t Take Off
With a quirky outline, Project Hail Mary stays within the bounds of human language and imperial fantasy.

Glass is a poetic short film about grief, memory, and the power of art to preserve connection. After the sudden death of her father, Mia finds herself alone with a room full of silence and unfulfilled promises. Among them is their shared dream: to play music together on water-filled glass bottles, an instrument her father once performed with and longed to pass on to her.
With a quirky outline, Project Hail Mary stays within the bounds of human language and imperial fantasy.
Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.
If you've watched 'Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles', you are either someone who believes “nothing happens” in this three and half-hour film or you’re like me who believes everything happens.
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.