FaxModem1 wrote: ↑2019-01-04 10:50pm
What did they survive off of? Are there convert humans plowing fields and planting crops to keep the troops alive as they hunt for uninfected? I ask because they should be running low by now.
The whole thing takes place within the span of 5 years, and given the small number of survivors we see in a major city (SF right?) there would still be decades of edible prepackaged and canned foods around.
At what point do the creatures decide to purge their army and just have them off themselves? Or opposite of that, at what point do they say, 'Wait, I need you to hunt down the other humans', because after a while, they'd run out of hunters.
I got no indications there was any actual communication between the unaffected and the creatures. The unaffected are simply that, unaffected, and given the exposition that the reason they are unaffected is because they are abnormal mentally in some fashion it makes sense they are mostly unstable or homicidal maniacs.
That's not a good message regarding mental health, but we can rationalize it by saying to be unaffected you have to be really fucked up in the head vice more normal levels or mental illness.
The other interpretation is that they unaffected are not killing people because they are internally homicidal, but because of their preexisting mental illness they are affected differently. Instead of suicide, they kill others. Them working together can just be explained as them reveling in the thing only they can see no longer being chalked up to illness, but them actually seeing something real others can't. Its a small group, I can see people like that banding together.
After five years, are the creatures' army of humans now making their own food through farming now, or are they just dying out because scavenging has emptied out all the food that was being made before the apocalypse?
The urbanites, if they ran out of food which again I see no reason for this to be the case yet, probably. But we see at least one rural unaffected and there is no reason to think he isn't himself a farmer, or at least adept in rural skills like hunting and fishing.
Or even better, are the creatures bringing human chow from the local demonic/interdimensional/intergalactic human pet store to feed their humans?
We have no idea what they are.
I enjoyed this movie, but not as much as my wife. At it's heart it is just a case study on how humans interact under stress. The monsters are just an excuse to keep eveyone in a confined space and under threat. Later the sight thing is just a way to exacerbate the fear of the unknown. Standard fare.
What I didn't like about this movie is that it that for 90% of the movie the monsters are not physical threats. We don't see them kill anyone, only influence others to kill themselves. Nor do we see any corpses that suggest they had been killed by them.The worst we see is them rattling a car. And they are not killing the unaffected otherwise in some other fashion.
I honestly didn't think they were monsters at the start seeaking out humans to kill, as they don't seem to try and enter any buildings or hunt down the survivors. I just figured it was some phenomenon. Some space time rupture or other inanimate natural thing. But then all of a sudden they are chasing Sandra Bullock, and talking to her in ways that are not explainable by triggering memories or visions. And Sandra is certainly acting like she expects them to run her down and physically kill her.
Other than that it suffers from all the normal post apocalyptic tropes and logic holes, worst of all is everyone making the worst decisions possible at most junctures. I get, DRAMA, people acting rational is not exciting. But when you realize that all they need to do is throw a blanket over their heads drapped to the ground (this is what they do in the boat) the car stuff all becomes irrelevant. you can wal around seeing roads and curbs and other clues under your feet and get anywhere within an area of miles and miles you are familiar with. You could even farm this way after a fashion. It wouldn't protect you from other survivors, but neither does being in a blacked out vehicle.
Also, they would have drowned almost instantly going through rapids like that. Even in class 1 a strainer would have gotten them quickly. I saw no reason they couldn't have just walked.