Questions...


For those few who have seen it, I thought we could discuss some of the more mysterious unanswered parts of this exciting, ambitious film. SPOILERS:

1. What was with the weird language the victims started speaking outside the area and how come Stangertz character did not speak it?
2. What happened to the two other workers while the main character was escaping? They just vanished into thin air.
3. What happened in the last scene?

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I was young when I saw this movie and it did "leave" an inprint in my mind.
I'll speculate in what I think could be some sort of explanations to what I deduced after seeing it one time only.

1. Can't remember that Stangertz didn't "speak gibberish", but no-one understood him. To my understanding this is an effect, a damage to the language center in the brain that was caused either by the "experiment" they were part of or a security measure that would stop anyone from exposing what was going on in case of escape prematurely. A third option is that they just went mad from the experiment.

2. Don't really remember any of them vanishing, just that the story doesn't tell us more about them. We follow the escape of the main character and what happens to him afterwards, and I just assume that the others survive to the same "nightmare" that he and the rest of the world do.

3. That is a simple conclusion. The "containment" of the experiment fails (=almost like the plot in "The Mist"). This causes the "summer" to spread to all other places, prematurely and uncontrolled of course, with the consequences that the rest of the world now will be exposed to the same harmful/toxic environment that the "workers" were... End of the world...

The moral of this movie and the other Hobert "experiment" classic "Age Unknown" is basically: DO NOT MESS OR TAMPER WITH NATURE, IT WILL BITE BACK HARDER AND STRONGER.

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the sad thing is it is harder to find age unknown/alder okand than it is this one.

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Both films have dvd releases now!

Antiparanoia is the eerie feeling that nothing is connected to anything else

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1. I think the language part was to symbolize the event so traumatic that you try to explain to people around and language is just not there. People listen to you and there is no existing framework to relate to. So you appear crazy if looking from the point of view of people who didn't experience it.

2. I guess it was to symbolize that no matter what you're still alone even though they were taught that if they stick together and take care of each other they can overcome it.

3. Only the daughter who isn't preconditioned with "normalcy" and social norms listened to the fathers message and special flower. In the last scene outside flower indicated danger, but since they didn't understand the message they didn't get the warning.

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