Oh my God!!! I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this movie!!!! It is everything that science fiction should be. You are completely immersed in the world of the Avalon while being confronted with a profound philosophical question. That most critics missed the philosophy of this film makes me again lament the state of critical thinking in our society. In a 90-year journey through space from Earth to Mars, passengers are placed in a suspended state until they awaken on arrival. A malfunction in the ship revives Jim Preston (played by Chris Pratt), completely alone and aware that he will never reach his destination, he struggles with the decision to awaken another passenger, Aurora Lane, (Jennifer Lawrence). No one is arguing that Passengers isn’t fabulous from a production design standpoint. The detail with which the Avalon has been created allows the viewer a fully-immersed experience, but it’s the fundamental question that this film turns on that has been largely ignored: Should Jim have woken Aurora up? If he truly loved who he thought she was, wouldn’t the most ethical thing be to let her sleep and proceed on her course? What if she had awakened and not been the girl he thought she was? What if she hated him? The questions become more profound once he has chosen to wake her up. As they fall in love, does he tell her? If he truly loves her, has he condemned her to this life or saved her? If she truly loves him, she must realize that he hasn’t robbed her of her planned life, but allowed her to find the life she was truly meant to live. THIS is the underlying premise of Passengers. It is a love struck Allegory of the Cave as space odyssey and this is what viewers should be contemplating during the race to fix the Avalon or the slow moments of space tedium. It’s unfortunate that so many missed the message.