Curiosity killed the cat

Kristian 2022-01-06 08:01:02

The film tells a story of Nick (Brenton Thwaites) with injured legs, his girlfriend Hailey (Olivia Cooke), and good buddy Jonah (Beau Knapp) (Decoration) The story of being caught in an alien trap because of a mysterious hacker signal.
In the film, it can be seen that both Nick and Jonah are engaged in computers, and they embarked on a terrible trip in order to find a hacker who hacked into the school. And Hailey is the most innocent person on this trip. Not only was she inexplicably involved in the trap of aliens, she was also "dumped" by her boyfriend during the trip. It was unlucky to get home. Perhaps the plot needs a heroine to attract the audience. , I guess the director thinks so. But later, it can be seen that Nick still loves his girlfriend very much. It is enough to save his girlfriend and escape with him if he is like that. His girlfriend can also feel at ease.
Aliens have no emotions and no feelings. You can see from Nomad and the nursing nurses. They don’t understand what kind of feelings the earthlings are. They arrested earthlings to do experiments and study earthlings. , After they know the people of the earth well, the next step may be to invade the earth. The old lady that Nick met after he escaped, including the uncle who was later shot to death by Nomad, were all terrestrial people who were arrested before for research. They all have a uniform number, which is also the number of their test area. The tattoo on Nick's arm is the number given to him by aliens, and he belongs to this area. The black liquid flowing out of Nick's nostrils when he first arrived was the same as the old lady's later, indicating that they were all subjects of study. They are arranged in the test area, which is the ecological area of ​​the earth simulated by aliens. Everything here is the same as on the earth, such as mountains, rivers, highways, trucks, computer gas stations, etc., so that it can explain why the road is halfway there but there is no You can understand that the aliens did not write such a large test map.
And Nomad and the medical staff actually only have a human face. It is estimated that the humans who have just arrived will be scared when they see their real faces. Except for these aliens that humans have come into contact with, other aliens should not be able to decorate.
At the end of the film, Nick dashed out of the edge of the test area, and it was vaguely seen that the number on the small square where he was located was the number of Nick's arm, and there were more than N numbered test areas like this. Therefore, no matter how much Nick escapes, he can't escape from this place, because he himself is on an alien planet.
Foreigners always think more about it. In fact, the film sets the relationship between aliens and humans similar to the relationship between humans and animals. Humans will also catch animals for experiments and build some cages that simulate animal life. It is transparent glass. When animals run in a living environment they think they are familiar with, they suddenly hit the glass and can't move forward. They will also wonder what is going on. In the film, humans are the subjects of experimentation.

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  • Tyshawn 2022-01-06 08:01:02

    It’s a pity that I guessed they are aliens early in the morning... It’s okay to make a short film with this plot.

  • Clement 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    I really don't know how to rate it. The climax is in the last few minutes.... I always thought it was a stream-of-consciousness movie of literature and art.

The Signal quotes

  • Jonah: They're testing us, Nic. Like little rats.

  • Damon: [showing video footage of an EBE] What you came looking for was more more than a hacker