The aliens who arrived need our help in 3000 years?
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oreleeodealy — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 03:51 AM)
I will have to re-watch this movie, i didn't get that they where asking for help at all xD
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oreleeodealy — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 10:20 AM)
I must admit I actually watched a screener ..
there was no subtitles .. I guess I missed a lot XD
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Kewl_Kat — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 05:56 AM)
They were probably there but you missed it unless the bottom part was obscured to hide the watermark. The subtitles were black and they were brief. They happened when only "Costello" remained to communicate with her.
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ianbuenav — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 07:25 PM)
I just gave you a template or a way of thinking that would answer your question while giving the opportunity to make logical answers rather than spoon-feeding you.
Also the topic is extremely open to any possibilities since they (the aliens) didn't give any info for us to go on (which means the speculations is not that important). as of this writing you got 2 answers below that would suffice.
It's not a "close-minded criticism", i just thought that the answers are already there, if not it doesn't really matter. -
ianbuenav — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 08:27 PM)
yeah, the movie isn't that intelligent anyway to warrant an "intelligently crafted and radically unique theories". I'm not actually surprised that he missed the point of my comment, which was already an way to give a manual on logically disseminating the film. The first answer was already spot on. He was simply being lazy enough to come up with his own answers or maybe he's new to critical thinking.
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horsecoach4hire — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 10:52 AM)
Humankind can travel through space, kill people with a droplet on a doorknob, create watches to call your house, follow you with a satellite, but cannot cure the common cold or cancer. If we could travel through time to find an alien race that COULD cure cancer, aids and such, wouldn't you do everything you could to make sure you could communicate with them?? To save people?
One thing that is a constant about earth is that it has many resources not available on other planets that we know of currently. What if this alien race needed one of earth's resources that hasn't been found by man yet but will be in 3000 years? This is what theoretical concepts are about. Not all people will accept this concept, but that's the fun bout having theoretical concepts and being a writeryou can create anything you want. I do recommend people read the short storyit's quite good.
I also think writers and film have made the assumption, causing viewers to perceive that alien races are far more intelligent than humans. Sure, they have obvious technology that mankind doesn't, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't need help from us: If anything, I think an alien race would NOT come to man because of our history of violence. An intelligent alien race would see that we kill each other/segregate each other based on differences and not accepting each other, so humans being open to an alien race? Highly doubtfulin fact that was one of the biggest plot holes I saw: the reality is, all those nations would, in part, would be afraid and attack, much like what happened later in the film.
(note that in the short story, there were many more spaceshipsthey condensed it to 12 to make it easier for viewers and likely production's budget
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dividiiiiiium — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 06:15 AM)
I was thinking the same thing too. Why on earth would they need the help of humanity three thousand years down the line. They'd have be so much more advanced it's crazy to think about.
Maybe if they said 50 or 100 years from now, it might be a bit more believable. -
Gaze73 — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 02:32 PM)
3k makes more sense because you have no idea how developed humanity can be in 3k years. We may even surpass the heptapods in many ways. And maybe they'll just have a scratch they can't itch because they have no hands.
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Brendan3 — 9 years ago(February 09, 2017 03:03 PM)
The help could come in any of a number of forms.
But more importantly it is not impossible to believe that, with three thousands of years of scientific and social progress, that we could not be equal to, or even surpass, a culture that is currently far more advanced than ours. -
Neuronhead — 9 years ago(February 11, 2017 10:04 PM)
or even surpass
That's an interesting spin. They could need our help three thousand years in the future we're actually more advanced than them. They are just squids after all.
I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe