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People get this movie the wrong way round (spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by davidmrenton
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the belief that the captured Humans have been augmented, they have alien legs, hands, grafted to them , that the individuals are humans with aliens addons.
When the doctor ask's the sample question "are you from earth" and he responds "yes" i think indicates these are actually Alien's with human add-on's.The captives are not from earth they just think they are due to the experiments.
The human has been grafted onto the Alien not the other way round.

The central theme is that these 'people' including the old lady and the trucker they still have human will, i think the captive, experimented aliens have more so adopted human trait's, emotion's, memories as in the case of the doctor who is not human but has a human face, human body.

[–] sartor023 10 years ago

Good post! I agree!
The movie is a thoughtful one that leaves the viewer to really think!

[–] day245 9 years ago

Great perspective

[–] whirlpool55 9 years ago

uh no... you're making something out of nothing. watch the movie again.

[–] Kariann1 9 years ago

I think I will watch the movie again using comments made as a guide. Wasn't there a director's cut?

[–] fatpie42 9 years ago

So he is an alien pair of legs grafted to a human body? What?

[–] gmoxie 9 years ago

I think it goes both ways. Damon is an alien with a human part (face) grafted onto him but I suspect that the rest of him is alien. However, I think it makes sense that Nic is human with alien parts grafted onto him.

The question, "are you from earth", might be an identity question. Perhaps this was one of a set of baseline questions before he gets the new legs and will be asked again and again as he accepts those legs and his situation. Then after he gets the alien parts, does he still feel he's of the earth? Or will he start to feel like he's part of a new hybrid race and identifies with the floating spaceship as his home? It's kind of like when people in a travel group ask you where you're from and yet you have moved around a lot -- do you answer the last place you lived or the place you were born or the place where you spent years growing up ... or the place where you have settled and now call home.

[–] mama21 9 years ago

The first question Damon asks once the lie detector is hooked up is " do you have 10 toes". The next is "are you from Earth". Normally, both of these questions would have obvious answers and would be clearly baseline questions. I think Damon asks the 10 toes question after Nic has his new legs and doesn't have 10 toes. His answer Provides a different kind of baseline- one that shows if Nic accepts certain things as reality based on What he believes reality to be. Will he believe/ accept that the facility is real and on Earth because it's the most obvious answer. I'm not wording this well but I think it's a much more significant moment than it appears to be.