A personal immigration experience

I traveled for a time after my last military job. I supplemented my finances by periodically doing temp and seasonal jobs. I worked with a wide range of people, including a lot of immigrants (documented and undocumented). There were a number of times when the crews were mixed. It was telling to see how many of the white guys would drop off while more of the immigrants stayed the length of the jobs. I also found that immigrants were more consistent to work with because they had fewer personal problems. A substantial number of the white guys who would hire onto these jobs had alcohol and personality issues whereas most of the immigrants who I worked with were sober and well balanced people.

See an interesting TYT article about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLf-gd8Rk2w&t=488s

Movie Review - Passengers (2016)

My sci-fi preference is for hard science fiction.  I like as much science accuracy as possible.  In that vein, I also prefer psychological realism.  I can't relate if the portrayal of what people do and say are too far out of sink with how they would really act.  I have gotten more selective with what I watch because of these things.  I dislike being disappointed after I watch a movie or read a book.  For instance, I disliked Star Wars Force Awakens.  I'm even a bit forgiving toward the prequels.  But I think that Force Awakens stretched coherence too far.  But that deserves its own post.

I just watched Passengers (2016).  I had reservations because multiple reviews illustrated how much of the science was wrong and about the abusive action of Pratt's character.  But I liked the idea that it didn't have any intentional antagonists.  So I rented it.  Yes, it did get rather loose with the science.  But I thought that it had a compelling story and interesting character portrayals.  I thought that the positives outweighed the negatives.  You see, another thing with which I've gotten bored is the antagonist / protagonist method of story telling.  Some people claim that Pratt's character is the antagonist. But I think of the character as being someone who intends to be a good guy but makes a horrible mistake. 

The end result is that I felt that Passengers had enough for me to consider it to be enjoyable science fiction.  It had a good concept, generally good story progression, likable characters and no enemies.  That being said, it really could have done better by the science without being detrimental to the story.  But I will watch it again.