Am I the only one who found the final shot of Hawk's body on the moon, accompanied by Frank Sinatra, to be so very, extremely disturbing? I mean, I get what the filmaker was trying to do, and I suppose its a fitting end. But I can't help thinking about him, stuck up there, slowly suffocating. The whole way it was put together just strikes me as morbid.
shareIt's one of my favorite parts of the movie. Fantastic ending.
shareProbably not going to slowly suffocate. Think about the scene in Officer and a Gentlemen where the officer candidates are put into a pressure chamber in which the oxygen is pumped out, similating high altitutde. The officer candidates became light-headed and giddy. They were in the first stages of suffocation. The next stage would have been simply going to sleep and died.
But I agree with the postings here about Hawk not wanting to burn out slowly. He said he had watched his wife go through that. He died saving his friends.
And the lives of many people on earth.
I have to agree. The way it was presented was really odd. Put me off the whole movie.
sharePlease. Totally unrealistic. It would take several days just to make it to the moon and would be an extreme luck shot to hit it. His Oxygen would have been used up long before.
I guess if folks can survive a mid air crash in Lost then he could for sure survive a crash landing at what? at least 400+ mph? And then drag himself to a rock....
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It's certainly sort of eerie, but I find it more sweet in the most melancholy way, than disturbing.
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He wouldn't have made the moon. Takes four days to get there and he didn't have that much O2.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
All US NASA astronauts have the *voluntary* option to carry 2 top-secret potassium cyanide pills embedded in the Hamilton Sundstrand EVA helmet and in a necklace pendant so they don't have to suffer asphyxiation or space freezing. Very quick & painless. NASA and its contractors will vehemently deny this to save face as suicide is supposedly a Christian sin and many astronauts would rather vent the cabin or EVA suit rather than take a suicide pill. Supposedly supplied by Sciencelabs Corp. of Houston TX under CAS: 151-50-8 / Catalog Codes: SLP3853, SLP1036. Need special authorization to order or even get a price quote.
sharesomewhere, cant remember where, i read an interview with one of the earlier astronauts on this pill question, and they all laughed it off. they all said that pills were unnecessary-all they had to do was open the door of the ship, and that would be it.
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Slowly suffocating brings to mind the old buried-alive horrors. Slowly suffocating in a space suit environment likely means that, at some point, the carbon dioxide built up and Hawk drifted into unconciousness. He laid down and simply went to sleep and never awoke. I seriously doubt that he screamed in terror and thrashed at his neck until he died.
shareI have been wanting to point out just that thing. It's a little like a "die painlessly" pill -- one gets woozy and goes to sleep.
Incidentally, astronauts know that theirs is not the safest profession. They consciously risk their lives for the chance to go into space. I'd say a dying astronaut wouldn't hesitate to risk dying to get to the moon.
So, disturbing as it was, I also knew the final shot was a victory shot. The guy chose to die reaching the moon, and not to die passively in a hospital because of body failure.