The caged bird ?
Maybe i missed the explanation of this but what was the purpose of the caged bird and why it then apears on hannahs drawing ???
shareA callback to "canaries in mines" used to test whether the air was safe for humans. The bird let us know the air in the ship was safe for humans, but most everyone kept wearing the suits in case there were other contaminants.
I suppose really observant people would see the bird drawing and put together other clues to guess Ian would be Hannah's father.
well now that make sense, but still, i see no reason for hannah to draw the bird other than a clue
shareShe drew it because her mom and dad must have told her the story in detail, including the caged bird, about the whole thing
shareShe had also made the aliens out of play-doh. One has to assume she was told about those events. The purpose of showing the viewer was foreshadowing that the daughter came after the events with the aliens, not before as is naturally assumed.
shareIn the 21st century (and for much of the 20th), people who have the job of entering environments that may be dangerous because of toxic atmospheric content, radiation, etc. have used instruments to monitor their surroundings. The bird used in this movie was so low-tech it was jarring and silly. But I did like the movie, anyway.
shareI guess it was useful to detect unknown harmful gas which their machines were not made for.
share> The bird used in this movie was so low-tech it was jarring and silly
I disagree, it is *brilliantly* low-tech because they were entering an *unknown* environment where your instruments will only take you so far, that is, they can only provide you information for the information you are looking specifically looking for.
It is a perfectly logical thing to bring along because the logic is simple: *If* there is anything in there that *can* kill the bird, it would likely harm the humans, too. Doesn't matter what it is.
It is basically the same logic behind Donald Rumsfeld's famous "known knowns" quote (for which he was widely panned for, but I really thought was a pretty brilliant summary):
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones..."
You bring the instruments for the "known unknowns" and you bring the bird for the "unknown unknowns".
Wow, that's a nice quote that explains the bird's existence simply.
shareYeah, that's the ticket.
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