This movie is goofy and not in a good way. I felt like I was watching a Pixar movie for toddlers. Everything is almost instant gratification writ large on screen. Was this movie made for toddlers? I feel like I’m missing something. Why is this film a box office success and so highly rated? Is everyone seriously depressed and easily charmed? Why did we need to see Ryan Gosling spinning and bumping into stuff in the spaceship so often. Why is this film so goofy. I’m utterly perplexed.
here’s the thing
there have been studies that show that goofy people have better coping mechanisms and are more able to perform under dire circumstances
the goofiness in the characters is exactly like real life
what you want is a stereotype, you want a stern guy, someone like Commander Yao. Oh wait, he was also goofy. Engineer Ilyukhina was also goofy. Eva Stratt had dead pan humour.
Even Rocky, another astronaut who would have been the best of his people, had suffered great trauma and had a sense of humour, he made jokes.
so these people are geniuses, they work really hard, ( or did you miss they are all the top of their field and work hard ) and they have the sense of goofiness that comes with genius . Wit is making unexpected connections between two different frames of reference, that takes smartness.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390057510_The_Role_of_Humor_in_Coping_with_Adversity
you don’t get to where these people are without a positive sense of humour