I worry this movie may have really been cursed by its publicity. Studios can't market something as a blockbuster action movie and then deliver a bizarre, borderline stream-of-consciousness big-budget art flick, but that's sorta what they did here. It leaves people (including me on the first night) going in expecting a lot of answers to be fed right to us, when instead, we get nothing but questions.
If you look at the other reviews here or elsewhere online, a lot of people are pretty dissatisfied with the scientific explanations the film gives for what is happening. Frankly, if you believe that those explanations are all there is to the story, you have a right to be dissatisfied with them.
But part of this story is about coming to accept or at least make peace with what is unknown and confusing, and the scientists offering these fragments of poor explanations for what is happening around them are at least as ill-informed about what's going on as we are. I'd argue that this is a story about people who don't understand the situation they're in told subjectively enough that we'll never fully understand that situation either.
Shout by Nathan LawrenceVIP EP 8BlockedParent2018-12-29T06:48:57Z
I worry this movie may have really been cursed by its publicity. Studios can't market something as a blockbuster action movie and then deliver a bizarre, borderline stream-of-consciousness big-budget art flick, but that's sorta what they did here. It leaves people (including me on the first night) going in expecting a lot of answers to be fed right to us, when instead, we get nothing but questions.
If you look at the other reviews here or elsewhere online, a lot of people are pretty dissatisfied with the scientific explanations the film gives for what is happening. Frankly, if you believe that those explanations are all there is to the story, you have a right to be dissatisfied with them.
But part of this story is about coming to accept or at least make peace with what is unknown and confusing, and the scientists offering these fragments of poor explanations for what is happening around them are at least as ill-informed about what's going on as we are. I'd argue that this is a story about people who don't understand the situation they're in told subjectively enough that we'll never fully understand that situation either.
And I'm OK with that.