The Abbots probably found all the quiet post-apocalyptic life too dull and wanted to throw in some excitement.Ī year after their son is killed, Evelyn is almost due. Childbirth comes with noise, noise means death, and it’s going to be extremely difficult to explain to a newborn to “keep it down”. Wait, what? Fear of making any noise instills lust and a craving for another child? Perhaps Lee and Evelyn grew up playing hide-and-seek all wrong. To mourn the loss of their child and protect the ones that remain, Lee and Evelyn do the one thing that will ensure the family’s safety – plan another baby. The events of this movie must be happening in an imaginary world where ‘this’ family is the smartest of the lot and is somehow still alive. That kid sneaks some batteries to a toy Regan lets him take and turns it on. In spite of that, both parents take the front of their line leaving the youngest of their kids trailing at the back. These folks are the last of the few survivors and understand the graveness of their situation. They pick up supplies from a deserted store and are trekking back. The film begins with the introduction to the Abbott family. Hmm… why does the concept of “an alien’s head blowing up because of loud frequencies” ring a bell? Oh yeah… Mars Attacks Plot Explanation It’s cute that the alien gets annoyed with television (the interference), thank goodness that TV and Cable are a rare thing on Earth. Ideally, soon as the aliens would have landed, they would have all gone crazy and died like the one in the last scene. As a species, we specialize in producing sounds in so many frequencies that we invented ‘noise pollution’. Earth functions on a gazillion of these mechanical and electromagnetic waves, it’s the one thing that powers us humans. The alien’s weakness is the same as that of the plot’s. As we see in the final scenes of the film, the mother and daughter realize this and shoot the alien in the room. When they are exposed to these high frequencies, their protective shell opens up and can be shot and killed. They have a hard exoskeleton but soft squishy insides. These can apparently be sound or even radio waves – which means mechanical and electromagnetic waves of high frequency. High-frequency sounds really drive them crazy. The aliens have been thought through well, but the plot not as much. Also, it appears that sound just pisses them off. They are parasitic in nature and are hunters without an agenda. A handful of them was able to wipe out most of the population because of their speed, agility, and invulnerability. These creatures landed on Earth not on spaceships but as part of meteorites. However, their ears are super sharp, and that’s how they hunt and kill. It is also clear that where they came from did not have any light and thus they never developed eyes. They are aliens from a planet that had extremely harsh conditions and hence have a bulletproof exterior impervious to explosions as well. While the film doesn’t disclose it, John has a backstory to the creatures. What are those creatures? Where did they come from? However, the events in the film could have avoided so many just-for-thrills “close shaves” that came in back to back. While the film ends with the pumping of a shotgun (like she’s going to turn out like Arnold in predator), it’s likely that the aliens just flee and attack at another time when they aren’t as ready. It is likely that sooner or later, baby or not, they will slip again and will die like the rest. This doesn’t mean that they have all the answers and are heroes who will save the day. This is the story of a family that is slightly better at survival than the ones who were slaughtered. Somehow they have endured, sometimes they are careless, they take each day as it comes, they make stupid decisions through their grief. They are not shown to be the family who will survive and save the world. The film does a fair job of exploring what a mother and father go through when their kid is killed in front of them as they watch helplessly. Okay, now that I got that out of my system.
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