Massive Spoiler
In the end I had the distinct feeling that the alien intelligence, the Shimmer, had the knowledge that Lena had betrayed her husband Kane. The film gives us three very good reasons for this. After Kane has been missing for a year he shows on the first floor of their home but he tells Lena he only begins to remember “anything” when he is looking into their bedroom “with the bed” on the second floor. Did anyone catch that the home in the evacuated and abandoned town was the same house as Kane and Lena’s? That tells you the Shimmer has mirrored Kane’s thoughts and memories while he was in that town but for some reason he was spared until the lighthouse. Perhaps a play on Virginia Wolf’s “To The Lighthouse” of sorts. The Shimmer only lets out Lena because it knows that she would literally die to get one more chance to be with Kane and make it up to him. There is one pivotal scene where they are both at home on the sofa and they both are reading and Kane turns to her and when he looks into her eyes she instantly knows he knows about her affair. Kane is special ops, he would know! Two scenes also with a glass of water magnifying their hands and wedding rings together and in the end interrogation of her hand with the wedding ring on. The Shimmer knew Lena would protect the new and different Kane because she deeply loved him but mostly because she knew that this Kane wouldn’t remember what she had done to him. So both the Shimmer and Lena make out in the end. Anyway what do you think?
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