Jim Preston

Jim Preston is the protagonist of the 2016 film Passengers. Jim is played by Chris Pratt.
Embarking on a 120-year journey, Jim wakes up nearly 90 years too early. Bordering on madness, he decides to wake up another person, while the ship's technical errors multiply. 
==Biography==
=== Waking up ===
After thirty years of sleep in his capsule, Jim is suddenly awake. Thinking he has arrived, he goes to his room, gets dressed, then goes out to meet other people.
However, the ship turns out to be empty except for an android named Arthur, whom Jim mistakes for a human. On his way to the observatory, Jim learns that he woke up way too early.
He tries to open the control room and the staff quarters, but the door is armored and impossible to open without the necessary authorization.
Gradually sinking into alcoholism (Arthur runs the ship's bar), and madness, he thinks of committing suicide by throwing himself into the interstellar void, thanks to the cell allowing him to walk outside the ship.
=== Aurora Lane ===
While wandering drunk among the sleeping pods, he discovered a young girl named Aurora Lane. Falling in love at first sight, he first inquired about her, learning that she is a journalist and that her father is a Pulitzer Prize winner.
After confiding in Arthur several times, telling him he wouldn't talk about Aurora again, he then tampered with his pod in order to wake her up.
Confused, she therefore did not notice Jim, present behind her. He then introduced himself to her, by chance. After explaining the situation to her and seeing her for several days trying to open the armored doors, Jim began to subtly flirt with Aurora. One evening, after buying her dinner, he showed her how to get out of the ship, taking a space suit with magnetic boots. Following this evening, Aurora and Jim began to be together.
=== Dispute ===
A year after Aurora's awakening, Jim decided to propose to her. However, when walking away to use the bathroom, Arthur revealed that Jim woke Aurora up, completely destroying her.
After this revelation, Aurora avoided Jim at all costs. He then tried to apologize to her. He then planted a tree in the Great Hall, to remind him of Central Park, his favorite place in New York.
=== Gus Mancuso ===
One day, the speakers were used by Gus Mancuso, a crew member complaining about a tree in the Great Hall. Aurora and Jim then went to the foot of the tree. After explaining the situation to Gus, they went to the control room.
In this room, the on-board computer showed none of the ship's many problems. It was therefore necessary to check the various points of the ship by hand. Gus therefore discovered that Jim had tampered with Aurora's capsule, unlike Jim and Gus.
One night, the gravity system shut down completely, leading the three awake passengers to realize that the problem lay much deeper within the ship. Gus then showed them the location of the engine room.
Unlike Jim's pod, Gus' pod went haywire on vital systems. According to the robot nurse, Gus' bodily damage is irreversible, and will cause his death a few hours later. Indeed, after saying his goodbyes, Gus dies.
=== Discovering the problem ===
After Gus died, Jim and Aurora teamed up to find the problem with the ship. In one of the rooms, a huge hole overlooked space, threatening the characters with death as soon as they arrived. After plugging it, they followed the various holes to the reactor, where a piece of asteroid had entered, destroying part of the central computer.
After replacing this part, Jim tried to purge the reactor, but the ventilation system is broken. Jim therefore went out to manually open the ventilation from the outside, with a shield. From there, he was forced to stay in the purge's line of sight, thus being able to kill him. Despite Aurora's crying, she purged the reactor anyway, saving all of the ship's passengers.
The cable holding Jim then broke under the pressure and heat, sending Jim flying into space. His helmet breaking, Jim felt he was dying. Despite rescuing Aurora, Jim is dead.
Fortunately, the nursing robot managed to revive Jim. Together they paid homage to Gus, and lived to die. When the other crew members awoke to the ship's arrival, they found a huge oak tree in the Great Hall, transformed into a beautiful garden.
==Personality==
Jim is a solitary man, for a whole year, driving him to madness. That's also why he wakes Aurora up, something that Gus completely understands and doesn't criticize. Jim only wants one thing: not to test alone during his last years. Thus, he clings to the only person he has left, despite discovering the truth, he tries by all means to win Aurora back.
Jim also shows himself to be a very brave person, not hesitating to sacrifice himself to save the passengers of the Avalion. As soon as he realized he was going to die, he gave up, thinking it was a lost cause, even though Aurora demonstrated otherwise by saving him.
While researching the features of the nursing robot, Jim discovered the possibility of falling back to sleep. Instead of taking advantage of it, he showed his selflessness, offering Aurora to go back to sleep so she could fulfill her journey and her dream. 
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