Ad Astra

"The enemy up here is not a person or a thing. It’s the endless void."

Ad Astra is the first movie, I saw after Max passed away. It's slow and Brad Pitt looks tried but I think that's the point of the movie. Unlike all other "searches for ET" movies, this one is close to reality and probably, that's why the movie didn't do well at the box office.

As far as we know, there is no other life anywhere in the Universe (I am writing this being a big X-files fan but "wishing" and "imagination" is quite different than reality) and if someone is stupid enough to drop everything on earth in search for something they imagined, then they will be disappointed at their end of life. Tommy Lee Jones's character is a paragon for a lot of past, present and future addicts.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with scientific enquiry but not at the cost of the only place in at the universe which supports life.

There is so much we don't about the life of earth - deep oceans, ocean bed, earth core, other non-human-Animals, our brain,  cancer, our emotions and I can go on and on. Read the book A Astronauts Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield and Packing for Mars by Mary Roach to understand how lucky we are.

"He’d captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent, full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces, there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there, and miss what was right in front of him."

Indeed, we are creatures who miss what is right in front of our nose.