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The scene with the soldier (MAJOR SPOILERS)

posted 9 years ago by bellapeligrosa
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So they've got her restrained in a glass cage controlled by electric shocks, but the soldier was just restrained? Surely if the demon that possessed her was so powerful, then the soldier should have been in a glass cage as well - what did they think was going to happen when the demon jumped from her into him?

How come she was so clean if she was consistently urinating? How was she being fed - we've seen that the shocks and gas affected her so Judith would surely have needed nourishment, she seemed as if reacted normally to the gas and shocks, despite the possession.

Also thought ending stole from Paranormal Activity. And why would the demon just kill Judith?

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

[–] inertiia 9 years ago

I was confused as to why they thought it would enter the soldiers body as opposed to anyone elses. What did they do to ensure that he would be the one possessed?

[–] bellapeligrosa 9 years ago

Yeah, bloody good point! The phrase 'couldn't organise a pi55 up in a brewery' springs to mind :)

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

[–] tuimjedi 9 years ago

I really liked the movie, but I really didn´t get the soldier thing either... All of the sudden they choose a soldier to be the next host, based on what? How did they knew it was going to jump into him?

[–] sandifay62 9 years ago

What I got from it was that the military was using their stupid tactics to try and contol a demon. the fact that they knew it was supernatural and thought they could control it meant they were dumb enough to think the demon would jump into the person THEY chose. Remember, they were military. They weren't scientists.

I actually thought that was a running gag through the movie. What happens when the military takes over scientific studies? They try to control by force, intimidation, and weapons for that sake of using the supernatural entity to topple world leaders. Lol

The only question I had was why a paranormal scientist would even consider calling the military in to help them? I could see calling biologists, physicists.

[–] Asylum_runaway 9 years ago

The military also have scientists. All different sorts. But your last question...yeah, I agree. Why call the military? That was a huge mistake. One that the doctor recognized when it was too late.

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[–] OccamsBarber 9 years ago

It was the 70s. We hadn't yet come to see the government as a utterly incompetent force whose attention should be avoided at all cost.

If you take life too seriously it stops being funny.

[–] OccamsBarber 9 years ago

Yeah, I felt like they edited something out. That part made no sense to me.

If you take life too seriously it stops being funny.

[–] Xex-Arachnid 9 years ago

With regards to the soldier to be the transferred host and why he wasn't incased in glass, I was thinking this too.

[–] mamouth007 9 years ago

And if the demon wants to possess Dr. West, why not possessing him in first place ?

[–] MrBelette 9 years ago

That's the army man ! That's never their job to think !

[–] cadeduelg-59371 8 years ago

The first order is always follow orders.

[–] dawnrunsamok 9 years ago

Regarding the question of why it chose to kill Judith and possess Dr. West, while sparing its tormenters...my guess is that they were basically good people-or at least not evil. Whereas the DOD guys were reprehensible, which suited the entity just fine. It wanted them to continue committing atrocities.

[–] zyggums 8 years ago

The demon was relatively obedient. We know it could have burst anyone's heart at any time. It *diseapears* from the room during the flashing light experiment. The demon had its own motives for allowing itself to be controlled. Maybe it was all a game to it. But, anyway, it did seem to do what it was told, for the most part. Trying to command it to transfer to a specific host wasn't far fetched.

[–] Rayvio 8 years ago

agreed. they'd been lured into thinking that they were in control when the opposite was the case. we saw them asking earlier how it picked a host, it's safe to assume that at some point they got what they considered to be workable intel on that
we also, of course, saw that the demon was actually the one giving instructions to the military scientists, so it's a rare case where the extreme levels of incompetence are actually justified

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[–] fiatlux-1 7 years ago

At first watch, I wondered why on Earth they called the military into it as well.

But besides the good point that people had yet to severely 'distrust' the government yet, I also felt that it was both a 'fear tactic' and a desperate attempt to re~capture some of the Institute's lost validity.

The hoax had hurt this terribly, for one.
Second, the crew at the Institute seemed genuinely ( and very understandably) frightened of the demon.
They seemed to have truly believed the military had the protection of the human race in mind when they arrived, as opposed to hoping to harness a 'weapon' for their own use.

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