IF ANYONE HAS AN EXPLANATION FOR LAST 15 MINS - Robot World (2015) Discussion

[–] kneejo 8 years ago

Spoilers: The astronaut doesn't come from Earth, but from another planet in the galaxy.. when he found the bottle of whiskey he called it alien language.. The arrival of the machine at earth makes peoples of earth think Jesus has returned and they plunge into world war 3.. The robots are the drone systems our military is currently developing.. they were put on automatic mode because all was lost. The very end is not clear to me, it looks like they sent a rescue party that he's watching burn up in the sky, but he could be watching himself and there's something timey wimey going on as well.

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[–] e1619087 8 years ago

much appreciated

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[–] ttocsmij 7 years ago

Thank you so very much. I heard some vocalization when he found that object but my simple audio system just emitted a garbled noise which I ignored since most of the dialogue was garbled and/or curse words. Then at one point the robots seemed to fighting each other just to muddle things a little more. Your POV at least makes sense given the rest of the film. Thanks again.

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[–] OIF-Retread 7 years ago

if you couldn't hear it, when he found the jack daniels' bottle he said something like "i've found a strange container with alien writing on it"; which let us know he wasn't from around here.

i think the robots fought each other because they were from different sides of the world war combatants. the ground robots and automated AA guns were UK forces, firing at aircraft from, i assume, the eastern bloc. however all of them were attacking the astronaut, since he was lacking any kind of 'friend-or-foe' ID.

"I'll do the masterminding around here." -Sgt. Stryker, "Sands of Iwo Jima"

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[–] OIF-Retread 7 years ago

religious fear was one of the things mentioned, but so was alien invasion and treachery by other countries. i think each side thought the other had deployed some sort of massive orbiting weapons system, so they launched preemptive strikes.

"I'll do the masterminding around here." -Sgt. Stryker, "Sands of Iwo Jima"

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[–] iamingozi 8 years ago

IMO,i see more than just the rescue party going down in flames, I see the entire device that allowed travel to be going down. I certainly looks like trails of flame coming from the bottom of it. As well, he immediately was going into an unavoidable descent when he arrived, so I figure that is the foreshadowing of the device doing the same thing. What I don't understand is why we are able to see him being alien only once, with him snorting when finding the JD bottle. It serves no purpose there and seems only to be added so that we can see he is different than human. I would say twice, as when he sees the newspaper announcing WWIII but it too is rather vague and done in a way that could easily be missed.

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[–] junk-monkey 7 years ago

Not that the Jack Daniels bottle shot (it's hardly a scene) makes any sense as his ship was full of screen displaying English. If the jack Daniels bottle was in 'alien' - so was his own ship which makes even less sense than none.

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[–] shadow_runner-59212 7 years ago

From what I can tell this is done to allow the viewer to understand what else is going on and to keep the movie from spoiling that first "twist" with the jack daniels bottle. Apparently even then some people still thought the guy was from earth. But you kinda get another glimpse into how he perceives the english language when he reads that news paper, the first shot being a jumbled mess of letters that straighten out when the camera swings over his other shoulder. This is just done for our sake in case we STILL didn't get what was going on.

Granted it was probably not the best or most creative way to go about it, it sorta got the job done.

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[–] junk-monkey 7 years ago

If it was then it was very clumsy. A better way would have had one of those ubiquitous female AI voices that spaceship computers always seem to have. Just Have all those "Fuel Low", "Attempting Lateral Stabilisation" stuff read out loud. Especially since the viewer had been primed to read them after being presented with a long, on-screen, backstory infodump.

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