So the boys father is standing there in jail with electrodes attached to his head. Is that supposed to mean they observe his behavior and abilities, because he is also from the other world as suggested by the final flash from his eyes?
shareI saw a screening a year ago, and from what you described it sounds like the ending is the same. I think that yes, if he is not from the alternate world, he is somehow connected to it now, or at least connected to Alton.
all work and no play make jack a dull boy.
Yes right...I was just wondering if the electrodes could have any other explanation...they were not going to electrocute him, I hope! :-)
shareWhen did you see the film, cause that's not the ending I got (unless the final flash was super quick and I didn't notice it). He was just in jail, but not being observed it seems, and was looking out into the sky (kinda a anticlimactic final shot).
shareSame here. I just saw the film tonight (4/15/16) and I got no eye lasers from Michael Shannon at the end. I think they probably wanted to leave more to the imagination.
Interesting that they decided to remove that.
I think it is the same ending. Observed is maybe the wrong word. I am referring to the electrodes in his hair. Why would he have those if he was not being studied / observed.
shareI don't recall a flash from his eyes either...I saw it last weekend (18 March).
shareThere was this light in his eyes, the same as his son had.
shareNo there wasn't. The light in the son's eyes was blue and blinding and radiated out of his eyes.
All there was in the final shot was the reflection of the setting sun in his eyes and it wasn't blue, nor blinding, nor radiating.
The implication I got from that was that he was looking up at his son, knowing he was up there somewhere in "the plane" where the "other people" lived.
There was a flash of white light in his eyes, to me it means he sees his son.
shareThere clearly was light in his eyes.
shareSaw it last night. He definitely has a quick flash of a blue light in his irises.
shareI went for a second time last night and there was, for sure, the start of a glow in his eyes. Not the burst of light like his son had, but something was happening. I take it as he can now see his son (and therefore, that world) every morning at sunrise. The electrodes are to study his brainwaves as he is experiencing these visions.
Great movie!
I think it is that (the connection) and there is a touch in him of what makes his son so special.
shareYes, he is able to see his son because his son is probably allowing him to see him that he is alright and that the father has got nothing to worry about. Interesting how people failed to see the flash in the father's eyes at the end while looking at the sky. It's very visible.
shareThere was definitely a little flash. Super quick, but not normal.
sharethat seems a likely explanation to me, too. there was a subtle flash in the father's eyes, not nearly as powerful as his son, but not human, either. so maybe they were monitoring brain activity especially while he was exposed to sunlight, which seems to have some special effect on these atypical beings. the source of their power, maybe?
shareI think so. Obviously it's a little ambiguous, but I think that is the most logical explanation of that shot.
shareDefinitely a flash in the eyes.
To me I read it like he had some connection to the parallel world. I mean, logically, the kid is his biological son, so genetically there has to be something...
Exactly what I read it as too. I really do think he was some type of alien ambassador/surveyor/researcher and fell in love with a human and had a kid.
shareI didn't think those were electrodes, I thought they were just dressings for some of the wounds he'd sustained when he rolled the car.
I think I liked it better when he just said "Annyong".
Just another arbitrary nonsensical bad writing point by the overrated director. If the father does have the flash of blue then why doesn't he have some of the same powers and use it in the movie. Why doesn't he know what is wrong with his son. Why doesn't he know what is going to happen and where to take his son. Oh I know he is special but not that special. Roll eyes.
shareFor sure, there is a brief flash of the blue light (I just saw it.)
But this could easily have been due to being exposed to his son's raw power. He clearly didn't have the power his son had, nor did his mother. And I did find myself asking how they gave birth to a higher being, but they never addressed that part of the plot.
So I suppose this is just pure speculation, but the only way I could see him suddenly getting even a hint of the power like that is through transference. And the only time I could think of when that would have happened in a situation that no one else who had been exposed to the boy had experienced, was when he released his power during the daytime.
Crying children will dry their eyes. Sleeping babies will awaken and take to the skies!
My problem with the ending was that the authorities were interviewing the guys at the end which seemingly ignored the world changing event that was witnessed by millions of people.
For me the film needed a bit more talking and exposition.
Small moves Ellie, small moves
saw the flash of light as well, was just a quick flash but ya, it was there, and intentional.
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Haha and you are one of those egotistical a--holes that assumes to be of higher intelligence than the masses when in reality you are FAR more ignorant! Lmfao!!
When do dressings for "scars" have wires attached to all of them? Huh Stevie Wonder?
Next time think before you speak so you dont make yourself look so retarded next time. The poster you attempted to bash has to be shaking his head and your pure ignorance.
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Not all dressings had wires attached to it son of a whore.
The point remains. He was still in prison. EB's were not the one monitoring him or his behavior. Unless they somehow convinced prison staff to do so.
Now stfu you peice of *beep*
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When you read this while sucking on your sisters tits. let me repeat myself again. EB's were not observing him. He is still in the prison. He is an EB himself and like his son he doesn't need wires attached to his head in order to be observed by them.
That's my main point when OP said that he was being observed by EB's through the wires attached to his head. Got it now cock gobbler? or do i need to say it again for the fourth time?
You seem to be confusing your amount of posts in this thread with the assertion that you’re somehow restating the same point… which has actually been changing with each of your emissions.
Nothing has changed. Op is stating that he is being 'observed' by 'them' because he is also from another world.
Who are them? people in prison surely doesn't know he is EB. Its only revealed at the end scene.
Why don't you go gag and choke on your fathers ball sack? because you clearly are of no use to anyone.
Dressings don't need wires. Open your eyes.
Small moves Ellie, small moves