For this movie it is important that this character is an astronaut and not a random person off the street. He has had years of preparation for space and isolation.

I’m a nurse and once had a patient who became a quadriplegic at a very young age from no fault of her own. I met her years into her new, altered life, and she was exceedingly cheerful, kind, and optimistic. I asked her why she was so happy, when many others in her situation are not. She said to me “I can be happy and paralyzed or sad and paralyzed, but either way, I’m paralyzed.” She told me this 5 years ago and I still remember her example and it still inspires me to choose a good attitude no matter the circumstances.

A lot of people have said something similar, but in the book, we are told that all of the crew were chosen to work well together, and he was chosen partly because of his sheer positivity. He is supposed to be the glue that holds the more qualified people together. He is also ridiculously smart, a botanist, an engineer, and been training for space for a long time, but the deciding factor was his psychological strength. Resilience. I think a big part of why he doesn't fall apart is because he keeps looking at solving the next problem. To quote Dory, "just keep swimming, just keep swimming" (on a dry planet), or to quote Anna, "do the next right thing." Once he gets home, that's when he can fall apart. Extreme compartmentalizing?

I have seen astronauts in interviews confirming how realistic the positivity and solution oriented attitude is. Astronauts selection criteria include temperament and attitude, so while it might not be realistic for us „normal“ people, it is credible for Astronauts...

I think the reason why Watney doesn't break down more is because he has a very dark sense of humor. The book explains it a bit better, but I could see it in the movie too. He is in a dark place mentally, but he tries to see it the best way possible. I'm kinda similiar in that sense that I'm a pessimist. That doesn't mean that I'm all doom and gloom all the time. I tend to call it positive pessimism. "Smile, because tomorrow will be worse". It doesn't meanyou should give up, but cherish the good things you have today because you might lose them tomorrow. A dark sense of humour helps with that. I can make fun of this hardship, so I can work with it

I remember reading Martian when I was deeply, clinically depressed and being perplexed by his will to survive and get out of there rather than just offing himself or laying down and waiting for death, it actually made me more willing to keep going

You guys talk a lot about the character of Matt Damon not showing the trauma he's suffering and that he does not spend enough time lamenting on himself. The issue is that you are not considering the very specific psychology of astronauts. Those guys are specifically selected for their capacity to always be optimistic, to always be solving the problem at hand, there is always a solution to your problems and it's your job to find it before you die. In my opinion and also a lot of astronaut opinions, the psychology of Matt Damon's character is the most realistic thing about that movie.

The dude is an astronaut, not a shipwrecked FedEx executive. NASA literally trains and tests these guys for situations of isolation and failure _exactly_ like this.

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You know the Mr. Rodgers movie would be a really interesting one to look at. I am requesting that next.

Being someone who's had *anxiety attacks in the middle of a room with nobody really noticing, I'm a huge fan of subtly acted but clear terror in movies. And also of this channel! Cheers.

When my daughter was born she had a double lung collapse and the doctors were visibly stunned that she was alive. People were shocked by how I was handling it and that I looked perfectly calm and in control. When I ran into two friends away from my wife at the time and the situation and they were putting my daughter on a helicopter to be treated with a procedure that didn't exist I dropped to my knees and started sobbing uncontrollably because I had asked the doctor outside the room to be brutally honest with me. He had told me that no child a month premature had ever survived a double lung collapse at birth. I knew the whole time that there was a near zero chance that she would survive. So yeah, I know what you mean. I'm glad to say that after a doctor spent 48 hours off shift with my daughter and the nurse spent 24 hours off shift, they saved my little girl. She's now a teenager. You do what you have to do. Unfortunately, I think the harder you have to push it out and push it off, the harder it hits you when you finally let it in. It was the hardest thing i've ever been through in my life, and i've been through a lot.

I'm so glad that I had watched Gravity before I saw this movie. If I hadn't, then I would have spent half the movie wondering why Matt Damon was vlogging. But as George Clooney tells Sandra Bullock in Gravity, "You never stop talking to mission control." Remembering that helped me enjoy this movie more.

I think the emotion you see in the scene where the crew is about to bring him back is not only from being so close to the end, but also hearing a person’s voice for the first time in over a year

The "don't feel it until you're safe" thing is very common, especially in people who have suffered trauma & in the military. It happened to me when I was 15. When going through the bad thing I felt nothing, but it was afterwards, when I was safe again, I started crying, & I cried for ages. Edit to add: I'd love to know more about the effects of isolation on people

It's not all that common that a movie captures something for me that the book didn't have (usually it leaves stuff out), but when Watney walks out of the shower and you can count his ribs, it punched me in the gut. The fact that the character could keep it together and stay focused while literally starving was pretty amazing (and inspirational).

"There can be tremendous warmth in teasing and giving each other crap." Best line in this whole episode!

The one thing about the Martian that most other Astronaut movies don’t do is accurately show how astronauts deal with stress and problem. Astronauts are picked because they are problem solvers, every single one. Listen to their stories an you will see that even with all the checklists and procedures, it is the astronauts ability to problem solve. They don’t have the emotional breakdowns, panic attacks, and other drama that Hollywood likes to portray. This is because those types of people are weeded out in the training. Panicking doesn’t help in a crisis, solving problems does. So when you are isolated, get a routine and work on your problems one at a time. You may be amazed what you can accomplish.

on the last point of saying if he had been the one on mars he wouldn't have made it long is actually explicitly stated in the book .IIRC Watney says at one point that it is only possible to survive because he is the botanist and chemist of the mission, if he wasn't there would be no way to even try to go on. Also made clear in the book is that Watney was chosen at least partially for the mission because of the personality traits he has of his humor in the face of adversity and his drive to keep going as being an essential part of the psychological well being of the crew.

So like we just gonna ignore the butcher knife story.....

You guys should do Passengers, it’s a little darker when it comes to isolation.

Having read the book fifteen times (no, I'm not joking about that) and currently re-reading it, there is some important background that is covered in the book about his character about the fact that, psychologically, Mark Watney is the one member of the crew who could actually survive isolation fairly well because of his psychology and overall personality. Also....the book is *filled* with all of the humor you see in the film! ALL OF IT. Did you guys not know that the guy who wrote the book worked for NASA and his whole job was to imagine worse-case scenarios of missions like these?? That's why he wrote the book!! DIRECT LINES FROM THE BOOK: "What can you tell us about about him? His personality, his mind-set?" "Well," Irene said, "He's very intelligent. All of them are, of course.But he's particularly resourceful and a good problem-solver." "That may save his life," Cathy interjected. "It may indeed," Irene agreed. "Also, he's a good-natured man. Usually cheerful, with a great sense of humor. He's quick with a joke. In the months leading up to launch, the crew was put through a grueling training schedule. They all showed signs of stress and moodiness. Mark was no exception, but the way he showed it was to crack more jokes and get everyone laughing." "He sounds like a great guy," Cathy said. "He really is," Irene said. "He was chosen for the mission in part because of his personality. An Ares crew has to spend thirteen months together. Social compatibility is key. Mark not only fits well in any social group, he's a catalyst to make a group work better. .." Also, "What does that do to a man psychologically?" In the book, it CRACKS A JOKE RIGHT AFTER THAT LINE!!! Verbatim, the first line afterwards is, "How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense." The humor *is* his reaction to stress! Anyone with a basic psychological understanding knows that this is a valid reaction, and that it is fairly plausible for someone to constantly crack jokes in order to deal with stress and extreme isolation. It's actually how I react, personally, and I am an extreme introvert with aspergers and I have gone two weeks without seeing anyone is person and it had no effect on me. In fact, I LOVED IT. My humor and my overall personality allows me to deal with isolation incredibly well. Practically thrive in it. This is *how* Mark Watney was written, which makes your analysis inherently flawed.

I've lived the past 20 years in almost total isolation due to several medical reasons, and from my perspective it looks like the writers got it right with Matt Damon not being super down, super angry, super fearfull and depressed all of the time. When it comes to survival, you just don't have the time and energie to be like that. You have to DO things, plan things in order not to die. Having them, is something totally different than acting out all those feelings and emotions, because that does not help. In fact, that would make survival even more difficult. When it concerns not just an hour, or a day or something like that, so you have to survive for months or even years on your own, depending on your own mind and ability to adapt and improvise with what you have on or with you. Besides that you need to be able to just... live. That means living like everything is as "normal" as can be. Otherwise you don't HAVE a life worth saving in the end. You'd end up an emotional mess and die anyway. The keyword is: adapting. Otherwise, if circumstances do not kill you, your own fears, anger and sadness will.

The trembling after a stressful event happens to gazelles or impalas after running away from a predator. It’s natural to feel that and it’s okay...you need to discharge the trauma or else you will keep it stored in the body.

I think everyone has gone through some piece of that. They kept the tone very close to that of the book, and that's why it didn't get too ... serious. But they do talk frequently about how astronauts are partly chosen by thier ability to cope and laugh about the things that would break other people.

I think you miss the mark a little bit on this one, he's not being quippy for us, he knows he's basically being quippy for whoever's going to find these hard drives near his desiccated corpse. He's whistling past the graveyard, and it's mentioned in the movie, and more in the book, that his characterization is that in stressful situations he deals with it with levity. Like any good astronaut he does not let it get in the way of working the problem, but he knows when he's making those vlogs that he's not expecting to ever see anybody who will watch them. If you look at it from that perspective, the guy is wearing his stress (but rarely, if ever, panic) on his sleeve pretty overtly. You see 80s one-liners from the protagonist. I'm seeing some kid who's having to keep their younger siblings entertained while he makes dinner at 10 years old.

In the classroom scene (my own favorite scene in the movie, which wasn't in the book) you have to remember who Watney is talking to. These are astronauts in training. The elephant in the room is that they all know that there may be situations where the best they can do may not be enough. The point is that what he is telling them is a strategy which gives them the best chance of survival.

I've experienced it once in my life. I was camping at Lake of the Ozarks with my husband and son and some friends. It was a miserable weekend. It rained almost the entire time. Not hard enough to disgust you into packing up and leaving, but enough to make everything wet and making you cold and just irritating. One the second night, our friend Jeff's friend Matt woke up with his tent leaking and soaking wet and cold. He tried to build up our campfire to get warm, but as you can imagine wet wood doesn't burn easily. After several failed attempts, genius boy decided to use White Gas, lantern fuel, to get the fire going. As one would expect, the fire leaped up the splash of fuel, blew the can out of his hand and engulfed him on flames. I heard the explosion and woke up to his burning body running past our tent. I have no idea how I got out of the tent. The fire was huge and spreading fast. The full container of fuel continued to spill out everywhere. All of our things were in jeopardy. Lawn chairs, equipment, food, I ran towards the fire, briefly aware that the light that had been Matt was now gone. I presumed he had run into the lake. I started yanking our gear away from the flames. I had no idea where anyone else was. Then I noticed the fire heading for the table that held our cooking stove, a few lanterns and propane tanks, a few feet beyond that was the lake itself, and I had no idea what would happen if the fuel reached the water. But of more pressing concern was the danger of propane explosions. I raced along the trail of fire, grabbed the table end and yanked. I have no clue to this day how I got the table and everything else away from the flames without dumping it all on the ground. I became vaguely aware that my husband and Jeff were slapping at the flames with wet towels and sleeping bags. When the last of it finally died, we were plunged from midday brightness into total darkness. I could hear screaming and sobbing. I had no idea if anyone was hurt. I figured Matt was probably dead. I held it together until it went dark, and then it was like a switch flipped inside me. I collapsed to the ground, shaking so violently I cut my head. I started crying and couldn't stop. In the end, Matt ended up with fairly minor burns. We lost the fuel container, but when it blew it didn't damage anything. We called it quits and went home after we got Matt to a hospital. I refused to go camping with him ever again. I can still close my eyes and see that human sized ball of flames running past the tent in the dark. And that was more than 20 years ago.

I've read the book a couple times, and I think it deals with isolation a bit better. It's also stated, I forget if it is in the movie, but in the book, that Mark is a much more positive guy, and not having him around the rest of the crew, really affects them. Would love to hear your reaction to the book if you ever get to read it. It's a really good book. Also, the joke about dying to disco music is way funnier and way different in the book. In the book he says, "how can Aquaman control whales? They're mammals. Makes no sense." I find that much funnier.

A few years ago I actually read the book this movie was based on, and from what I remember it did go deeper into everything then the movie was able to. Understandable, they had to make the movie a reasonable length, so they couldn’t throw in everything. And of course some things just don’t translate well between the two mediums. But it was interesting to see things directly from Watney’s pov, and get to literally read his thoughts. The time jumps were smaller as well, it was a little slower paced, so we really got to see how things progressed with closer detail. Lotta science stuff, still had it’s humorous moments, but all in all there were a couple of things that got left on the cutting room floor, and a few things they added on. One particular thing I thought was cool is that we would take breaks from Watney’s POV and jump into the people back on Earth, or the rest of the Ares crew, and get into their minds as well. The Ares team grieving for Mark, then finding out he’s alive and feeling both relived and guilty, deciding to go get him against orders. The pressure the NASA team feels to quickly get Mark home, all the while trying to satisfy the higher ups and make sure the rest of the Ares crew isn’t put in danger. All that has a nice window into the characters minds. I’ll have to go back and reread it, freshen up my memory. I do remember liking it.

I never thought of his final speech to the students as a "You can solve any problem." but as a "If you give up, its definitly over. But if you get up and try, you MAY survive long enough to discover a way out that you couldn´t see before."

Part of the will is just training. Astronaut training involves hundreds if not thousands of "what if" scenarios to try to teach them to work the problem and get to a solution.

Have had the "I'm completly competent and in control handling this situation. Oh, it's over? We're done? Oh good. {completly looses her sh*t}" experiance myself. Much better to loose it after the crisis than before or during.

I have experienced the "keeping it together and then fall apart after" a few times. The worst one though was right after I finished army medic school. In my very first trip where I was the only medic on duty I had a soldier who suffered from a heart attack. He had marched for 35km with about 40kg of gear and powered through 2 heatstrokes. He collapsed at camp where I was. So, he went through a worse version of what I was about to go through. At that point it was dark and there was a thunderstorm raging. I went into his tent after I heard a sergeant that somebody collapsed. I asked him what is going on and he told me he had intense chest pain that radiated down his left arm. Bad sign. And then he said he was literally blind and couldn't feel his toes and fingertips. He was basically giving me a checklist of the most obvious signs of a heart attack. And I knew he didn't know them, that guy was a meathead. Procedure is to give him oxygen and get him as quickly as possible to a hospital. I had to tell a master sergeant that I needed a vehicle and a driver to get me to the closest civilian hospital. The master sergeant at first refused and after I told him that I need the orders in writing and said that if that guy died it was on him he relented. I was a month from becoming a private back then...I was still a recruit. A sergeant drove use to the closest hospital. We charged in with the patient carried by us two and immediately put him on a stretcher close by. I immediately told a nurse what was going and did everything by the book and once a doctor came I told hIm what his symptoms were. The patient looked a lot better by now. After they wheeled him away I just collapsed against a wall. I couldn't move. My accompanying sergeant helped me stand and we went into the waiting area. I was just shivering and felt like puking. Some context: I was 18. I did everything by the book, but I was still afraid that my patient could come to harm from my actions. When I had him I never doubted, but afterwards I did He made a full recovery and bought me quite a few beers.

"No one's going to be stuck on Mars and be this peppy." My thing is, but what else is there? What else do you do? I mean sure I think trying to sleep would be the worst time and there would be times you'd cry your eyes out but then you'd have to pick up and carry on, because survival is the most overriding instinct, and on the other hand we can adapt to all sorts of surreal situations very fast when we have to.

If u want the psychological intensity that that situation would create, read the book. I won't say it's better cause it's two different experiences, but it's really freaking good

"I do think we can overcome seemingly insurmountable things- but sometimes the best we can do is accept our situation with dignity, and see how much good we can do within it." Mr. Decker, that was beautiful, eloquent, and true. Thank you for that.

(jonathan you are a legit hero :D ) And your final thoughts were so wise--sometimes we can fight what opposes us and sometimes the fight is to go through it with grace and dignity.

When I was taking theatre, my teacher talked a lot about portraying emotion subtly. Don’t wail your head off when your character is upset, make it seem like they don’t want to wail but are about to. One of my biggest takaways from that class.

In truly traumatic situations, I have experienced that. I’m calm and on-point until it’s over and the crisis is past. Then it hits me all at once. However, my big psychology trauma came from not allowing myself time to properly process the realities I was confronted with. Probably something I would like you to touch on in a review at some stage - just how damaging the “macho male” stereotype and the insistence on not talking about or processing trauma is for people who do it.

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Would you ever consider to react to Mean Girls? Idk if there's anything psychological to examine, I just like the movje

I think one of the reasons he was able to get through isolation was that he was always recording himself. It feels like talking to someone albeit it's a one sided communication, it's still a Form of communication and keeping sane. If he wasn't doing that, he would have succumbed to insanity caused by isolation way faster

I love this movie and I love the book too. And ever since I watched it, the quote, "If you solve enough problems, you get to come home" has been my mantra for anything stressful or overwhelming.

The final comment of "Sometimes the best thing we can do is accept our situation with dignity and see how much good we can do within it" is exactly what was done in the film when he started finishing the experiments when it seemed like he ran out of options. I think you both jumped the gun in the eagerness to poo poo the "I can do it attitude." The idea here isn't that you can beat anything, the idea is you have to try and if some luck comes your way, you can be successful.

I was working at a summer camp once and during lunch a kid started to choke. Another counsellor jumped into action to dislodge the item in his throat. After she realized that the kid was OK she completely broke down and realized what could've happened had she not been there.

It is a very inspiring film when you are going through the wringer thats for sure. He was very busy for most of the time at the start which didnt give him too much time to be emotional then- I think that can be true to life. You can be so over worked you sleep rather than feel at the end of the day.

3:54 I always assumed he was using humor as a coping mechanism.

My experience with something that was scary but didn't effect me until after was about a year ago around Halloween. I went to a theme park with my friends for an event they have there called "Halloween Haunt" where the park stays open very late into the night and everything is Halloween themed. The park is full, long lines everywhere. We were on our first line to a ride when suddenly a group of teens run past us and looking back. We were confused and soon after EVERYONE ran in different directions. Many climbing over the fence. There was screaming and we heard there was a shooter in the park (It was a false alarm, but we didn't know at the time).Soon after a police helicopter flew over with a searchlight on. I was worried, but I kept calm and kept my friends together and calm. The ride area cleared and we hid there behind some trashcans for a bit as it was out of the way before we left. After that incident I was very scared and thinking about what if it was real. I get anxiety just thinking about it and that place again.

That part in the storm when he’s trying to count potatoes is the most relatable to me. That part where he visibly gets overwhelmed and cries out feels so much like me in the throes of anxiety sometimes.

I can attest to the music thing. My sister used to do gymnastics and every girl had the same floor music. Every. Single. One. So I would be at her meets and quickly get sick of the music but a while later I would catch myself singing along to it.

This story kind of touches on what you are talking about on the 11 minute mark. My mom passed away suddenly and my younger brother found her, I remained mostly calm, trying to calm him, calling my older sister, my aunt, my uncle, my dad and step mom. Informing the parmedics/cops of everything, I was able to keep a strong front but as soon as my dad got there (he couldn't get there quickly) I just broke down. There were other similar incidents where it was terror but I have learned that keeping those calm around you by being calm no matter how scared or sad you are helps the situation so much more.

That's exactly my approach to life: Assess the current situation, and figure out how to think about it in a way that maximizes the possibility of a positive outcome. Sometimes a positive outcome is as little as "I can draw three more breaths as opposed to drawing one," but every time the odds improve, the situation is different and a new assessment can be made. Wow!

The movie does show acceptance of what you can’t control when he went from hating the disco music to jamming out to it. But I agree the overall message of the movie doesn’t work in all situations.

I think another really important point is Watney's haste to reassure his commander that she made the right call with the information she had and that he doesn't blame her for it because that guilt would eat at most of us if we were in her boots.

I always like to think that when someone is going through a trauma, you just get that fight or flight feeling. We’re so distracted with the survival aspect and just getting from place to place that we don’t realize or even accept what’s happening to us, but once we move on, finally finding that safe place to land, once we are stable, or close, we have that space to process. We have that space to just finally breakdown and accept what has happened to us. Without going into much detail, my own boyfriend for years was in an extremely abusive relationship with his ex-wife. She manipulated and abused him in many ways but he just accepted what was going on because he loved her. Once they broke things off he had just started to process everything but hadn’t truly accepted that it was over and therefore still in that fight or flight mode. Once he and I met, and the honeymoon phase was over, he started to experience some pretty clear symptoms of depression and PTSD from his previous relationship. And it was only when good things started to happen, like his newly found independence and seeing friends he hadn’t talked to for 5 or so years, that he felt safe enough to let those feelings out. Matt Damon and Ridley Scott as well as the rest of the cast, pulled off this scene really well. Having that feeling like being so close to the end of that and being safe and where you feel like you can express all of these pent up emotions, and the execution being so subtle but so real. Looking back and seeing that scene now, after being with my boyfriend and what he has gone through, it just makes this scene even more believable and honest.

Found this in November, so... yeah... "heading back into it."

Yes I love this take ! It’s always at the end when you’re so close to the end that you question

I think one of the things missing from your assessment is that he's an astronaut. He isn't going to react the same way an average person would with the isolation.

How about Moon (2009) with Sam Rockwell? It touches on the isolation elements quite well i think

I had one of those falling-apart moments in college, still suffering the fallout from it years later. My best friend and roommate at the time decided she couldn't go on, and I was the one to find her note, her gifts to her family and friends, and I was the one to decide whether to call her sister to come get her or 911. My other roommates and I stopped her and we had to be really calm, but the minute she was out of the apartment to go to McDonald's with her sister, I completely broke down. I had stress-diarrhea and nausea and didn't sleep that night. Thank god I had a good counsellor.

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This reminds me of a story I’ve heard of a POW kept in a pitch-black cell by himself for several weeks. He kept himself sane by throwing a button around his cell and then finding it, subsisting off of that feeling of accomplishment. I feel that the idea behind this is similar. Combine that with the strenuous training someone would need to travel to Mars and I can imagine that just keeping an objective-oriented mindset would help in keeping someone on track to survive.

I absolutely love how he stitched himself up, then walked a few feet away and said "I'm not gonna die here". Absolutely brilliant

11:30 I think the reason why most of the time people don't freak out in situations like that is because it's not a safe place to break down. I've had panic attacks and I've certainly freaked out in my head but I've never freaked out or had a panic attack in front of anyone - ever. For me it's always a safety issue. For strangers, it's the fact that I don't trust them to take care of me if that happens and for family and friends it's because I don't want them to see me like that or get burdened or anything with it. I always get through the moment and then run to my room, a bathroom, or a closet and freak out there. It's just feels safer for me. Idk if it's the same for everyone but that's what I would assume.

I always thought during the movie, between scenes the guy has a breakdown or let’s his walls down for a minute. He’s alone on a planet and most likely will die, he definitely had moments in the middle of the night hand freaks out for a minute. The humor helps him not go insane and fall into a pit of despair. Which I really appreciated when watching the movie and reading the book. It’s space terror with a spoonful of sugar.

I love this film and the book even more! I feel like you don't see the trauma mark is going through. Basically the story is told from his logs for the main part, he thinks there could be a chance, even if he dies (which he actually thinks, if I can remember correctly) that his crew or his family could see it. And mark's a pretty kind guy, he doesn't want people to blame themselves for his death, so he keeps it light. I think the movie did a pretty good job with this: the more vulnerable parts are when the cameras aren't rolling so to speak. When he can process it just a little. I don't think he allows himself to process it until he's safe, because he wants to survive and he knows "if you solve enough tasks you get to go home". He had two choices, carry on and survive, deal with his physical needs or deal with his emotional ones.

Just found this video! The Martian was an instrumental book in helping me find my way back from a depression fueled psychotic break; mirroring the way I felt. Feeling a sort of isolation of the mind, knowing that to ever return to 'normal', I had to "do the work" of reconnecting to the world outside of the mental Mars I had stranded myself on. Knowing I had the option to just isolate and mourn my life, essentially waiting to die. Watney was a blueprint I didn't know I needed.

I would love to see you guys do an analysis of the movie Annihilation.

I think the abusive mother-daughter relationship, as well as the manipulation of the other mother in Coraline, would be really interesting to analyze from a therapist's standpoint as well as a filmmaker in how they convey the message and theme through claymation.

Just found this channel and I love it. You should totally cover Joker 2019.

You guys have such a great way of presenting critical (but not negative) ideas where I'm much more open to accepting them. I'm impressed.

The "everything is going to go south, and this is it or get to work" is very easy to believe. I do it every day. It's not about solving problems, it's about dealing with the "now", doing what needs to be done in that moment and then moving down the to-do list. Sometimes it's the only way to get through the day. " just keep swimming" - Dory in Finding Nemo

After a few weeks I'd probably just start singing a lot

5:51 This is why I watch videos like this. I never would have noticed this detail. My appreciation of this movie, and all movies that use this detail, just increased.

I know I am late to the party but I just wanted to add that another movie that portrays the whole "getting emotional after the thing has ended" theme very well is "Captain Phillips". Tom Hank's performance at that specific scene is simply spectacular!

I like the change in the thumbnail! Shows the content a bit better for sure. Video itself was great as always, dunno if I'll always keep writing long comments as I will kind of start repeating myself. Food for thought for sure and relevant topic. You guys also just feel so incredibly genuine. Keep it up

Could you do a video about Hal in Megamind? I've personally met several hals in my life and would live insight on how they work and why they act that way?

The thing you said about cancer is very pointnet. I heard therapists say that there's a HUGE problem in a videly-accepted concept of "beating cancer", like it's some sort of a fight or a course of action you can take to make it better. That's why a lot of people who are "losing" to cancer feel like it's their fault, that they were not strong enough or something. When in reality it's really a dice roll.

I just discovered this channel the other day and I love it so much, keep up the good work! I've been in therapy almost my entire life and am pursuing and art therapy degree (I'm 19) and it's so nice to gain insight and listen to your perspectives through your commentary on these films!

I just found this channel yesterday, and I absolutely adore you guys. I’m an aspiring filmmaker (at least at the moment), who attends therapy every Thursday, so seeing those two elements combined is really cool. I love the work you guys do, keep it up! On another note, do you guys only react to movies, or would you consider doing TV shows in the future? Thanks, guys! Keep being awesome!

I only just ran into this channel today, and it has quickly become one of my favorite channels. Started with the Inside Out video, which I could highly relate to myself. But now I have to know has he told the story of the knife yet?

I love how you analyzed this movie as well as other movies. I learned so much from this channel. Great work.

Watching this November 2021..."It's been 3 months, maybe we're headed for another lockdown". That optimism is refreshing.

Haha, I love how they say at 12:00 that Matt Damon's acting in the ascent scene is "a bit bigger" but still compliment him on his "acting choice". Looking at behind the scenes material, it emerges that this is actually NOT acting. Matt only had a limited number of scenes with other people and when the voices of his supposed crew companions were played back during this scene, he got emotional for real. They used that first take they shot.

If you want a straight drama movie...Pay It Forward. I'd love to see you do that.

I Appsolutely love cinema therapy its by far my most favorite channel because it funny and they review and discuss the movies in away that is light hearted and not meant to offended anyone . this channel has no drama just laughs. i am so glad that I stumble on it thank you Jonathan & Alan I will be recommending it to my friends to watch

Some of the stuff you guys said about anxiety might be so useful for me to cope with mine. Every time I used to go to a concert I’d freak out the days prior to it cause it was a huge deal for me, but next time I’ll just try not to think about it and focus on the little tasks I have to do for the concert instead of thinking about how big of a deal it is to me.

That thing that he says to the students at the end, that's something I've seen echoed by people like Jim Lovell (Apollo 13 astronaut) and Jocko Willink (SEAL team combatant swimmer, commander and instructor, at various times). Their attitude is basically don't entertain failure for a second: just stop a second, prioritise and deal with the problems you have in priority order. If you're successful you might live, but panicking or freaking out is not going to work. You keep working on the problems until either the problems have been eliminated or you are actually dead. Both men of course are highly, highly trained and famous for their unwavering bravery.

As someone who has all but given up on making a true meaningful friendship, I spend a lot of time living in my imagination. No friends? Make some. Abusive family member? Tell them off in your head. Probably not a good way to cope but I was isolated a lot as a teen. While probably unhealthy, I’d probably survive this kind of isolation. Just as long as I’d brought a few games and a tv series or two

Maybe this didn't come across in the movie, but in the book Watney absolutely feels all of the isolation and depression that Jono wanted to see, but his goofy behavior was a coping mechanism. It wasn't "oh, this is fine, I don't mind that I'm alone on a desert planet", but instead "oh God, this is the worst possible situation, but in order to get myself through this I have to distract myself"

I was a case manager at a behavioral hospital and I had sooo many incidents where a patient became violent with me. All of my coworkers told me that’s it’s the job and I just need to calm down and move on. This is the first time I’ve heard anyone else say they had a reaction just like mine. It’s really nice to feel like I wasn’t being weak and that other people reacted like I did too. Thank you both!

I would also suggest Moon or Annihilation as great sci-fi films to analyze.

I get the shaking thing after a presentation at school or getting really excited talking to someone and think I'm making risky moves by picking a stupid topic or talking too much.

I really appreciate your videos. They are very informative, yet entertaining. You guys have great chemistry and the way you recount your own experiences never seems boastful, just genuine. About the falling apart after the action dies down: I'm a paramedic. In Germany where I live there's a way to become a paramedic that takes only three months, one month of studying and two months of practical training. Where I was stationed at afterwards, there was a big personal shortage so I was immediately put to full use and always placed with younger and still in training colleagues. I felt terribly unprepared and overwhelmed. I remember one of my first missions, where control told us "I have no other vehicles near, you're going to be on your own for a while". On my way there, were I was just sitting next to my driver I was shaking like a leaf. If I would've opened my mouth, you would've heard my teeth chattering. I was terrified. When we arrived at the scene, it stopped. There was no fear, I didn't even have to think, about what I was supposed to do, I just did. Everything worked fine and knowing how my body reacts to these situations has since helped me tremendously to stay calm.

I absolutely related to the staying strong and then having the moment after when I can begin to process. That speaks to me.

"Nobody wants to wear a mask, masks aren't fun" My inner child: I'm a ninja! Now everyone can be ninjas!!! Yay.

That question is a set-up for a joke in the original book, too. It's even funnier in the book, and it shows how Watney was using a bit of escapism to deal with it.

Love this episode. Lived through two concurrent life threatening injuries, and had to wait months for corrective surgery. I really appreciate the sentiment shared here, but also the Martian is a kickass movie. Keep it up!

I've experienced that so many times! When a terrifying situation hits me suddenly out of nowhere? I just handle it & walk away calmly, only after I'm out of it do I start shaking & realizing the amount of danger I was just in.