The key plot is that the mysterious hacker Nomad corresponds to Dr. Damon (the letters are reversed, the two are actually the same "person"). If you don't understand this, the understanding will be very confusing.
Now
let's roughly explain the whole play: Nic, male lead (MIT's science student, excellent hacker skills)
Haley, female partner (male lead's girlfriend).
Jonah, male partner (friend of the male and female lead, MIT science student, slightly inferior in hacking skills, is a Jew (the male lead scolds him as "Kike"))
Dr. Damon, the humanoid robot
male lead made by Alien Technology , loves long-distance running, film He ran to the middle of the replay and was blocked by the river. It can be speculated that he risked wading to cross the river, was washed down by the water, hit a rock and injured his spine (the condition is deteriorating, and he may be disabled for life). It is very logical that he thinks that breaking up with his girlfriend will happen sooner or later, so he is thinking about how to deal with the end of the relationship. Haley is leaving Nic and staying somewhere in California for a year. Because it was only after Nic was injured that he suddenly told him. Nic fell silent and thoughtful, and began to deliberately neglect his girlfriend Hal.
The mysterious hacker Nomad hacked into the MIT server, destroyed a bunch of servers, and also destroyed the hosting server independently owned by Nic and Jo. During the trip to send his girlfriend south, Nomad once again hacked into Hal's laptop, used the laptop camera to monitor the situation in the hotel, and also used the traffic camera to take photos to lure Nic and Jo into anti-tracking. Under the coercive and lure of his friend Jonah, Nic finally agreed to implement anti-tracking for the hacker Nomad. Through the computer IP address found, he found the contact address registered on the Internet by the other party, not far from the destination of the trip. They decided to stop by to check Nomad's possible residence and check it out.
Jo holding a handheld camera, the two secretly broke into Nomad's hacking cabin. Nothing was found, but the screams of Haley waiting outside the car interrupted the search and ran outside the house. The trance light only saw Hal's body flashing high in the sky.
After the male protagonist Nic was sober, he found himself in a high-security research laboratory. Dr. Damon told him that he was abducted by aliens, may have a malignant infectious disease, and needs to be isolated. In the playback video, there was an alien's face hidden on the tree, which surprised Nic. In the process of various inquiries, investigations and tests, Nic carefully observed and memorized the internal structure of the entire experimental base, the pressed buttons of the digital door locks (through the residual traces of biscuit crumbs), etc., in order to escape later. prepare for. At the same time, he also discovered a lot of weird phenomena, such as the wall clock that always stops at 12:30 in the aisle (broken); there is no toilet cubicle covered by a partition in the toilet. With the help of their friend Jo, the two calculated the digital combination of the door lock. However, the planned escape was due to unforeseen accidents (Hal’s bed wheel was stuck when turning) and some negligence (not noticed that the numeric keypad of the code lock was high, and the male host pressed the button on the wheelchair. Button) and failed.
After waking up again, seeing his girlfriend Hal also lying on the hospital bed, Nic was agitated and rolled off the hospital bed, and found that his legs were amputated and put on extraterrestrial technology prostheses. Dr. Damon asked him to calm down and stay to continue the experimental test. He was warned that once he escaped outside the laboratory, he would not be protected. Of course, Nic is determined to save his girlfriend and escape from this weird underground experimental base.
Driven by will, Nic quickly mastered the use of alien prostheses. After escaping from the base, the religious old woman drove them to a gas station. Nic tried to call for help but couldn't get through the service. The truck driver took Haley away (presumably), but was chased by Nic. After taking the truck, Nic was still unable to drive the truck out of the area, as if in a circle. In the unmanned tourist information center, the map showed wrong information, making them confused. In the middle of the night, Nic heard the movement inside the house, sneaked into the house and found his friend Jo who had escaped alone. Jo told him that he was able to escape by himself because he was helped. He was very disappointed that he could not help them escape. And tell them that all the marked series, including the tattoo "2, 3, 5, 41" on the body, add up to 51, the can in the house is empty, and the map is fake. They will not be able to escape from this secret military test base (the famous area 51) where the US government is testing alien technology. Jo, like Nic, was transplanted with a robotic arm and became a research experiment.
Dr. Damon interrogated the old woman and the truck driver James, and after determining that they were both in a nervous state, they eliminated the two of them. People in the area are all in anger, loneliness, decadence and disappointment because of long-term stay and unable to escape Area 51. Over time, some neuroses have appeared somewhat.
Nic persuaded Jo to escape from Area 51 and expose to the public the scandal of the US government abducting living people for human experiments. They drove to the checkpoint along the only road in the area. Jo sacrificed himself and smashed the roadblock with his robotic arm, allowing Nic and Hal to successfully break through the level. At the next level, after the truck was destroyed, the helicopter took away the half-conscious Hal. When Dr. Damon persuaded Nic, Nic found that the name on the doctor's biochemical suit was the hacker Nomad's name in reverse order. The doctor also admitted that he and the hacker are the same person, although he deliberately abducted Nic and Jonah into the experimental area, but emphasized that you have pursued it yourself. In a frenzy, Nic is determined to escape alone, revealing the truth to comfort Jo and the imprisoned Hal. After quickly passing through the curtain wall of the area and found that he was in another alien space, Dr. Damon also revealed the true body of his robot. So far, the mysterious Area 51 of Nevada that the movie audiences and people in the movie always think is actually an artificial test space set up by aliens in the space station, simulating the earth on which humans live.
---over.
Interviews with the director and editor learned that the film emphasized that people are human because everyone has emotional choices in their hearts. If you decide by purely logical thinking, you will lose your mind and become a robot.
"Signal" was selected as the participating film at the 2014 Sundance Sundance Film Festival and was the world premiere. The praise and demeanor of the film varies from various circles, and the rating is generally stuck on the passing line. But most film critics and newspapers are very optimistic about the career prospects of directors and screenwriters.
==== If you have any questions, I will try my best to answer them. It's been a long time, and some details can't be remembered anymore. Sorry.
View more about The Signal reviews
