Why did Kate Mara point the gun on Max and say upload the virus? Wasn't it in Evelyn?
Why did Will then say do you want ME to upload the virus or save Evelyn?
So he all of a sudden decided to kill himself? Or he didn't care because very last scene seems to indicate they are still alive somehow.
Kinda just lost me. 😦
Yeah, threatening Max didn't make much sense. All I can figure is that she thought Will still considered him a friend (though surely Will would already be aware that Max had been kidnapped and was likely now a member of the anti-tech group).
He uploads the virus in order to grant the dying wish of his wife, even though he knows it means his own destruction. That's supposed to be the movie's twist -- even though he is an all-powerful AI, he still feels genuine love for his wife and only had benevolent intentions for the human race.
The last scene where the nanobots seem to still exist again doesn't make much sense either, feels like something they slapped in to set up a possible sequel.
The nanobots in the garden was a bit of a stretch. They were supposed to have been protected by the (unrealistic) Faraday cage Will had built there at the start of the film. The idea was that Will and Evelyn's consciousness might have survived in those nanobots, thus his sacrifice at the end when he allowed the virus to succeed was actually only sacrificing his "big plan"... their souls carried on, together, in a nice garden. I thought it was a nice bit of symbolism, even if technically it's a bit of a stretch to believe that *she* could have made it that far in the short time between her being uploaded and the virus doing its work
shareI think the nanobots in the garden at the end was an unintended consequence. The Faraday cage was built by Will well before his metamorphoses. Given the enormous amount of data he was processing in his evolved state, and his seemingly lack of attention to some details, the cage would have been infinitesimally trivial.
To me, the garden symbolized the diverse and chaotic Ellipse of Life; that somehow, the nanobots lucked into a way to survive, much like an antibacterial-resistant germ.
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