this movie is one of the best of 2023. it was suspenseful and interesting. there are so few movies like it nowadays. too bad the ending kinda sucked. the explanation for all the weird events was too outlandish. none of it explains the deers though.
shareThe worst thing about the ending is that it's not even ambiguous, it's just plain stupid.
The men have been told by Kevin Bacon (playing beautifully against type...) about the neighbours' bunker, so they're definitely going there. The mum has already stared out at the house and said she's going to check there. And the girl is already there!
For what, though. Hunker down until what? It looked as if the country was being overthrown, not a nuclear event(s). What are they going to "wait out"? They don't even know what has or will happen. They could come out later and find things worse.
shareTrue. But I was just pointing out the stupidity of having them all scattered at the end, despite everyone knowing about the bunker and either already being there or heading in that direction.
It was a cheap gimmick just to end with the kid and her Friends dvd. But really it should just have shown them all arriving there and sealing themselves in against whatever.
Which, like you said, is still an ambiguity. The situation of whether they'd all come back together again wasn't.
Didn't make sense that Kevin Bacon's character told them about the bunker. I figured he would have scoped out that house, saw that it was better fortified than his house and moved his family there.
But yes, very clear that the main characters are all going to end up there soon.
I thought the same thing. Danny definitely would've checked out that house first.
Maybe they ended it that way as a set up to a potential sequel?
...saw that it was better fortified than his house...
Someone on a different thread
wrote that, in the book, the couple who lived there had gone out of town. They were stuck in an airport with no way to get home.
I don't think it is supposed to be serious, or realitistic, so they over-pushed the weird things ... like that noise? What could create a noise like that all over the place? Nothing.
The point is that we are killing ourselves in America - we don't even need an enemy.
( well, we could blame Republicans for their steadfast work to divide the country and make us hate each other )
i think what happened was he could make something really cool, suspenseful and mysterious happen but couldnt come up with anything worthy to justify it. i really wished the ending was something else because it was so good in the first half.
even if it was a civil war breaking out, that could make sense but not the illuminati using hackers to cause a civil war to break out. that doesn't make sense. all the dumbasses with small arms can't overtake the american military. i would've preferred some kind of dooms day scenario. kid's teeth falling out after 2 days of radiation makes no sense. it's not that fast. also no pain? yea right.
I explained the noise in the other comment. They were talking about a rogue army, a plot how to change a regime and some powerful persons with a prior knowledge. It was a coup, not a civil war. You have to wait for the civil war until next year, when Alex Garland's movie is released. Or until the elections...
share> all the dumbasses with small arms can't overtake the american military.
That depends on how many "dumbasses" there are in the military.
The noise was the so called "Havana Syndrome". In recent years it has been suspected that somebody is using microwave weapons against US officials and one of the reported "symptoms" is a harsh noise. Lately they claimed that it is a psychological thing, rather than somebody using an actual energy weapon. I think that the satellite they showed turning toward Earth was meant to be a microwave emitter.
shareThe Cuba thing, with Russian overtones was complete BS. If it existed at all it was probably a CIA thing.
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