Michelle a monster?


We get to see the movie through Michelle's eyes and therefore automatically assume she's the hero...but some her manipulations seem to suggest borderline personality disorders.

Howard brings her food which she spurns, tells her he saved her life--which she disbelieves--and then immediately endangers herself and Howard's lives by starting a fire in an underground bunker.

She then sharpens a stake intending to spear Howard ala Vampire Diaries as he attempts to investigate (and to presumably save Michelle, again).

She sociopathically drives Howard to anger by deliberately pushing buttons at the dinner table, toys with Emmett's emotions by falsely coming on to him, and then conspiratorially gets Emmett to perform most of the dangerous work for their escape plan (stealing kitchen implements under Howard's wrathful eye, getting Howard to dispose of the shower curtain, distracting Howard while she made the Hazmat suit, and volunteering to singlehandedly subdue Howard and relieve him of his gun).

Even when the suit was done they knew only one was getting out. So of course, old Emmett volunteers to stay behind...with what would be a supremely pissed-off Howard.

(Makes one wonder if she subconsciously set-up Emmett up to be that "hero" with her carefully emoted story about "freezing under pressure," which precipitates Emmett's rushed confession to Howard and gets him killed? Naughty girl!)

She lies, manipulates, steals, gives Howard a 10-point faceplant in an acid bath, and her only act of kindness is to stitch up Howard's cut--which she in fact, caused.

She then locks Howard in a burning bunker and watches it explode--after killing an organic spaceship with some strategically lobbed firewater to its kisser.

Who knows what havoc she will wreak when she reaches Houston?

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I agree with most of your post, but let me add one more item to the list.

The woman checks messages, talks on the cell, and switches on radio. I don't see how she gets any eye-time on the actual road. I hate such drivers. I was actually waiting for the crash, it looked inevitable, even though (plot device) it was actually Howard who drove her off the road.

So there's another idea: if she was paying any attention, it would have been much easier for Howard to overtake her without crashing her off the road. Not saying that it is ok to do dangerous overtaking maneuvering, and for that I hate Howard as a POS driver he is...

So let's learn a lesson here - keep calm, and eyes on the road when you drive, people!

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This was hilarious. Bravo!

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Females can destroy societies, kingdoms, families, lives as they have done and do, but western society will always find a way to make them the victims. Glad others can see through things clearly. It's mostly guys that will defend her, as whiteknights are the most important force towards "modern" feminism.

Oh man, the responses, let's see a few. Can only take a few.

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whey would he put her in handcuffs and lock her leg??? why wouldn't he explain the minute she woke up what had happened? why wasn't he more worried? why did he not try to explain everything to her, show her that the world had ended?

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Sorry if I repeat what most of
these replies probably say:
(didn't have time to read them)

But if 'Survivor' = 'monster' then ok . . . I'm a monster too!

If your convinced your life is in danger by a psycho - your going to utilize everything available to save yourself.

She was a survivor.
Not Jean Dixon and not a psychology major.
She had no way to know Howard's daughter had escaped & got fried by aliens. She had no way to interpret that he was telling the truth,
and that there was a twist on the father-daughter dynamics;

teen Megan surely thought her dad was a conspiracy kook and hated him for it.
While visiting him and trying to do the 'normal family thing', he hears info on his radio indicating the signs of an invasion. He makes her get in the bunker against her will - now she's convinced her dad really is insane and they fight and she escapes the bunker - MAYBE while he's gone OR maybe while he's bringing the passed-out Michelle in - maybe he got Megan to help him bring Michelle in and Megan used it as an opportunity to run and got fried.


Michelle wakes up hours later - she has no way to know Howard was in severe shock-grief and all His actions and words - of course illogical - incomplete - and :'( OR right' are the results of traumatic shock.

She only sees and hears a crazy man talkin' about Martians while she's chained to a pipe.


I worry about you . . .

Did you ever take candy, or a puppy or a ride from a stranger?


If a person acts like & says really psycho things - do NOT trust that person just because they are kinda nice to you . . .




Unless of course there really are
Cyclops-skunk-like-car-&-human-hating-chemical spraying krakens . . .

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You seem to be looking at Michelle's acts completely out of context, and to the complete exclusion of anything else that happened in the situation.

Perhaps you missed the part where an autistic, sociopathic serial-killer hermit kidnapped her?

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Alleged serial killer...the evidence was largely circumstantial.

He kidnapped her to save her life (which he in fact, did). Without her foreknowledge and Hazmat suit (thanks to Howard), how long do you think she would have "survived" that night?

Repaying acts of mercy--however slightly misguided--with self-destructive acts of intentional cruelty and murder seems a bit more sociopath.

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Well that's a whole lot of armchair psychology right there. If you wake up in the fallout shelter of some strange man who tells you the world has ended, would you believe him? Also after you find out that he's the one who ran you off the road in the first place?
Michelle spends half the movie suspecting Howard has kidnapped her for some nefarious purpose, and the rest of the movie knowing that he most likely trapped and killed another girl down there. Of course she lies, manipulates and steals at that point. Sassing Howard at dinner just seemed like a way of backing up Emmett, and neither of them knew just how unhinged he was at that point; and to be fair, Howard acted like an ass towards the both of them. Small wonder she got a little cheeky. I wouldn't call her a monster. Wouldn't call Howard that either, for that matter. They are complex characters.

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Why is everyone digging so deep? Michelle was kidnapped by a sociopath. End of story.

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