THE VAST OF NIGHT Ending Explained!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2025
- In this video we take a deep dive and explain the ending to Amazon's latest sci-fi movie THE VAST OF NIGHT. We'll review, recap, and break down the ending as well as discuss the aliens.
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When a phone call and an interview is more creepy than horror gore then you are in for a treat. This movie is amazing IMO.
Amen. I enjoyed this suspenseful and engrossing film more than most sorry excuses for thrillers of recent times. It pulls you in and spins a web of mystery that's deeply intriguing. No violence, no jump scares, no blood. Gobs of atmosphere and suspense. So eerie. And what a fun tribute to science fiction; it felt like a love letter to Rod Serling and Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells ... including the radio station's call letters, WOTW.
These stories the characters were telling, the creepy soundtrack and camera movement were super creepy. This wasn’t a typical horror movie but damn I was so scared!
I don't feel like you explained anything, just described the movie
Anyways this is what I think happened:
As the old lady said the aliens distracts us from knowing the truth hence the basketball game happening at the same time.
Both Fay and the guy (can't remember his name) were chosen from the start to go to the ship and everything that happened was controlled by the aliens to make this happen.
The lines said by the old lady is meant to test if people are being controlled which is why she was saying it when they walked in, to test them.
The couple in the car was being controlled to carry both Fay and the guy to the alien ship which is why the "spell" was broken when the guy played the tape of the old lady saying the lines I mentioned.
Lenny Joseph 👌
His name was Everett. And yeah I got the same feeling that the Aliens were pulling the strings to get them there
Great theory! I do try my best to add more analytical takes to my videos rather than recaps that you'll find on most channels that do "ending explained" type videos. It's a fine balance, but always striving to do better.
Think Story you’re great, my friend! love your content!
@@ThinkStory I hope you don't think I meant any disrespect. Your format was great and your jokes landed really well, Overall I enjoyed your video. I will subscribe to see where this channel goes but I do think if you added a little bit of what you believed the movie was about or what the movie's message is, then your channel will grow very fast because at the end of the day that is the reason why people clicked on your video to see what you think the ending meant, or what you think happened leading up to it.
The camera work and long shots are fascinating.
I actually think I have a really cool theory if anyone wants to listen :)
In the end we see Fay and Everett holding each other but we don’t see Maddy (the baby), and afterwards we see many ashes on top of the recorder where they were standing. My theory, and hear me out, is that they just wanted the Maddy and incinerated Fay and Everett. The old woman’s kid heard the alien words and walked out to get taken by the “people in the sky”. Maddy was ALSO a kid who had a single mother and was probably very isolated from her tiny town. And the old woman said that was the target. But Maddy wouldn’t have been able to walk out to a spot where they could take her in. So the aliens orchestrated the all of the things that Fay and Everett did to take her in! The babysitter had seen the UFO hover near her house and called Fay to tell her. Fay then took Maddy with Everett and rode with the other couple who told them to get in, to the exact place with they wanted. You can later see that the couple is affected, and “possessed” by the alien words but not Fay and Everett. The “people in the sky” could only take in people who were “possessed” by them, so they wouldn’t want Fay and Everett. So why would they go through this whole process just so Fay and Everett could be burned to ashes? They wanted MADDY!
(And if Maddy was in the middle of their embrace she could of been taken after... idk no ones gonna see this comment)
The radio station is wotw, war of the worlds. in the new war of the Worlds the aliens turn people to dust, so could be a hint.
But if they were vaporized wouldn't the recorder at the end by damage or vaporized as well.. your theory tho is quite good cause thinking about it all of it actually falls into place and at the end the baby was gone and they were still there cause they couldnt hug each other that tightly with a baby in between them.. but hey could be the writers error who knows very nice movie tho.
This! This is the answer 💯
@@jayebernard1245 There tech
Lmao they weren’t incinerated... all 3 of them were abducted. So what you’re saying is through the whole movie, the aliens attracted them to the field just to incinerate them? Makes zero sense 😂😂😂😂. Also that was DIRT on the ground that accumulated when they were being abducted. Notice how there was a swirl of wind going around them like a tornado. That’s what caused the mound of DIRT in that spot.
This movie isn't asking too much in interpretation, but I think it has wonderful story-telling and dialogue; Everett and Fay were simply awesome. The portrayals of their characters and their times had a richly detailed veracity to accompany an unabashedly fantastical space alien abduction storyline. Fay on the switchboard - smoothly and properly connecting the front and rear patch cords, responding to supervision lights, hitting the switches to apply ring tone and connect parties through, without making a point of it, just a young 50's operator working her muscle memory... but at the same time capturing small-town operator culture and still playing her part in a sci-fi story. I loved it. Great acting. I can only imagine the actress, Sarah McCormack, thinking "they didn't really ever make phone calls like this, did they? It's nuts!" the whole time. The movie is worth it just for the dialogue and flow. Don't worry about the ending; just enjoy the show.
I definitely agree
Fay's glasses!
I hope they make more movies in the "Paradox theater" , or hell, make a whole series based on that concept, Since i feel the new TwiligthZone show was a disapointment, and this would make a better show
What are your thoughts on "the outer limits"?
@@AkinlabiStClair Ive seen a couple of episodes, really enjoyed it actually
Don't know if it was the 90's or an early 2000's version tough
Yess sums up my thoughts exactly
already done...it's called Black Mirror on Netflix
Torchy Brown yea that’s totally what he meant and not a more well written less preachy show about how “ rAcIsM iS bAd”
I liked the part where Fay was describing gadgets that would happen in the future as small talk. This gives evidence to the notion the two/three where selected ahead of time as candidates for abduction. They would adapt more quickly to a futuristic environment. The story has many examples of these premonitions.
That’s my theory too. They abduct those who show a high level of intelligence... but who knows what the aliens do to them on the ship? And I have a feeling it’s not kind.
@@eden20111 How did Maddy show a high level of intelligence?
@@gaila.9852 she was curious and interested in science/tech of the future, and was enthusiastic about it. She took leaps of imagination. She was sad she was unable to afford college. What young girl in the 50's do you know of from media and personal experience had these attributes/aspirations/idealism
@@carolvassallo26 In my opinion, curiosity does not signify a “high level of intelligence.”
Don't know about radio but Fay certainly had a career in field sports. Damn you aliens, robbed her of an Olympic medal.
Faye sure did a whole lot of running. Those were some tough saddle shoes!
I thought that at the end they were incinerated rather than abducted, and the only thing that was left was the radio. and that 'dust' around it, is was actually ashes from them. That would explained the burnt area around it too.
I had that thought to but how could they leave footprints in the dust if they are the "dust". That doesn't make sense. The dust has to be there before them for them to leave a trail of footprints in.
@@Jay-vp3kk good point. I didnt recall that
imagine an alien technology, making ashes as organic living things and you have the explanation of the radio intact.
So the aliens brought them all the way to that spot to roast them? Lol tf 😂😂😂
Yes, exactly. They were incinerated.
I by pure chance watched it the night it came out, not knowing anything about it and expecting nothing more than basic nightly entertainment, and boy i really enjoyed it, I thought it was a pretty neat flick. The next day i looked it up out of curiosity and found out not only that it was the director's first movie, but that his budget was so low that it wouldn't even cover one day of shooting for any of Disney's crap fest. This of course placed it on a completely different level, which demonstrates an unusual level of talent and ingenuity. Not only he succeeded into making a pretty common story feel fresh and captivating, but he did so with severe limitations, which in turn happened to be the driving force behind it, since the tricks and "hacks" used (hacks in a good way) pretty much make the movie.
This proves that good writing and directing are all it takes to make a good product, so while Disney throws hundreds of millions at shit like Artemis Foul, shit that nobody will remember in 5 years if not for how bad it is, actual creatives make great shit for the price of one day in The Mandalorian studios. Epic.
I agree. I was almost getting bored till the end. I swear up until the end, the only thrilling scenes was when Fay would run into the street at night while the other guy got the car. For some reason that was a re-occurring thing throughout the movie with the music and everything. It was more story telling by random people than show, but the ending made it all worth it.
I love that this glowing movie review is actually just a chance to take a jab at Disney 😂
@@flyingintervation4188 You have a lie IQ.
@@FLdancer00 Uh OH ! If that triggered you and the mother ship at Disney... Patty Jenkins will be directing a Disney Star Wars movie as a reward for Wonder Woman 84 ? The Universe is being run by a bunch of Karens who just awarded George Floyd's estranged family with $27 M. SIE needs a new CEO.
@@erich5686 You sound like the one who is triggered. But I would be too if I was getting replaced and there was nothing I could do to stop it 😂
Loved the long scene of Fay on the board first discovering the noise, great acting on her part.
It was drawn out and boring as all hell. Her acting was good though.
the charm of these simple types of scene is whats missing from the big blockbuster movies
@@thebobloblawshow8832 no it wasn’t boring, it’s a slow burn that gets hotter and hotter, people that are really interested in aliens, and love the 50s ear absolutely loved this movie
Sierra (Fay) chose this long scene for her audition and nailed it. She beat out the others and was hired.
What about the two friends in the car? Didn't they seem exactly like Faye and Everett? That was creepy and made me think it was Faye and Everett older selves (that were abducted)
But was it a chipmunk or a squirrel?
Underrated comment!!
I see what you did there
It was a squirrel
I never found out why it was important. They said it about a thousand times, it has to be important.
@@FLdancer00I think the point of the line is, That it doesn't matter, Noone will ever truly know
Like how, We will never know the fate of the characters, and the motive of the aliens
I think you missed a few key points. The ending is kind of hinted by the director.
1) The station's name was WOTW = War of the Worlds.
2) The trees were burnt. Something happened in that clearing. Fire is always a sign of hostility.
The aliens aren't benign. They're hostile.
'fire is always a sign of hostility' nah fam
lightning, sunlight, wildfire - destructive but natural
campfires, torchlight, cooking food - unnatural but constructive, helpful if controlled
fire is more often a sign of civilization; civilizations can be both benign and hostile.
(to me, that scene read as a landing site; the shape in the trees was classical ufo and their power sources are of course somehow energy based)
@@praazlwurm theres more - the old woman was dismissed as crazy- but everything she said was turning out right. even their friends in the car reacted like her son - implies the control logic she was indicating may not have been far fetched. we go crazy over privacy in our phones etc- this is an alien civilization that took control as those strange words were read. i should've just written that and the WOTW hint - fire argument i can step down from.
@@damienspectre4231 fairs fair haha
i also loved this movie as an homage to the twilight zones' episodes on red scare vs aliens :D
Lmao they weren’t incinerated... all 3 of them were abducted. So what you’re saying is through the whole movie, the aliens attracted them to the field just to incinerate them? Makes zero sense 😂😂😂😂. Also that was DIRT on the ground that accumulated when they were being abducted. Notice how there was a swirl of wind going around them like a tornado. That’s what caused the mound of DIRT in that spot.
@@eden20111 they wanted the baby. They used them to get the baby out to the field. Everett and Faye knew too much. As they had hard evidence of the aliens existence. I'm convinced they incinerated them and abducted the baby
WOTW
War of the worlds.
The hands are missing from the clock in the radio station at the end.
I think the couple in the car (who looked up at the sound of the recording), and the son who disappeared are some type of hybrid alien/human beings. Both Faye and Everett reacted to the couple LOOKING UP when the recorder played the alien words. Their exit from the car was based on the realization that the couple were not what they appeared to be. And that sure changed the tone of things. There are many hints to that theory in the script. Great movie!
Not necessarily alien themselves but controlled by them.
The couple was clearly under the influence of the aliens. And I believe its their abandoned car with the lights on and the front doors open at the end. Plus I thought it was strange that the couple showed up at the Switchboard rather than the radio station. Fay received a direct call from the aliens twice to the switchboard!
@@newpapyrus The abandoned car at the end was the one Everett "borrowed" and left at the Switchboard when he sat into the other car.
Yes, and this is exactly what mabel described.
They left the car to keep the baby safe from reckless driving.
Okay quick fun fact about the long take showing the layout of the town, there are atleast 2 cuts that are blended in well. I went on google maps to find the location of the switchboard, the road they walk on between the school and the switchboard, the highschool, and the radio station, I realized that the IRL locations of the switchboard, and the school are in the same town but much farther apart than they appear but the radio station is in another town IRL also fun fact, since filming the movie the building used as the radio station has been demolished but the industrial area next to it is there IRL and showed me where the building was with some help of old street view images. The cuts I could make out in the long take are when the camera passes next to a house between the switchboard and the highschool cutting to across the street from the school, and then when the camera pans in the gym to the window there is another cut where we switch to across the street from the industrial area by the radio station. All in all it’s very smooth editing. Also you can faintly see the tracks of the go kart carrying the camera from previous takes as the shot is progressing.
I also loved how they played with the lights in those shots making them look like ufo’s.
Can we please address all the running Fay did across town in the third act? She's like a little track star but w Hushpuppies.
Don't know about radio but she certainly had a career in field sports. Damn you aliens robbed her of an Olympic medal.
I think she was being controlled. Her knowing the location of the tapes, picking up her little sister, and even making Everette aware of the sounds in the first place lead me to believe she was like Holis. The fact that she doesn't know her father, much like Holis didn't know his, leads me to believe they may be sleeper cells implemented for some reason or controlled more than the average to achieve a certain goal.
@@GearZNet she would have also been under the spell in the car and she wasn''t.
Yeah, the running would have been too much even if cut in half! And they were SADDLE SHOES. Absolutely impossible to run in (wore them 8 years).
Always sensible to run fast while carrying a baby. 😁
You didn't explain the ending, you just went over what the movie already showed.
I loved this movie! The acting was superb and the characters were so well developed, considering how short the movie is and they had such smart comebacks and were really entertaining to watch. I'd watch a movie of just them having a conversation. Maybe they'll make a 2nd movie (fingers crossed). But idk if I would actually like that if Fay and Everett aren't gonna be in it. I feel bad for Fay and Maddy's mom though, losing both her daughters. And I also felt bad for Mabel when Everett and Fay didn't take her.
The way Fay basically described iPhones from a 1950s perspective sounded soo scifi. Were so accustomed to them now its normal.
Yes, cheerleader outfits did look like that! 📣📣
Thank you for the video, it was soooooo entertaining. I actually want to go watch this movie now but that’s nothing new. Every Time I watch one of your videos I always wanna go watch the movie; because you just somehow make every part of the movie seem entertaining and captivating lol. 💛💛💛💛
Haha
Night gallery was another great old tv series worth checking out
The language sounded Navajo slightly
For the outcast of the 30/40k - Night Gallery, the 1969 movie? I’ll give it a watch. 😉
The words the old lady said as they walked in made sure they were being controlled. The old lady said -say the words to the people you meet. either she knew about the other couple or make sure you say the words to the “People”
not to go full TMA Beholding-Meta, but: what if the aliens made the tv show?
Getting into heads, forcing choices, forcing wars, and that really specific camera movement tracking all through the town, through the game, almost voyeuristically. Feels like a form of entertainment.
My thought as well
After watching the movie, I felt like I just have seen a prequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
If you remember, Fay said she lives with a single mom. For that woman to lose both of her children mysteriously would be devastating...
Did Fay have a sibling die?
@@frankgonzalezofficial3010 no but fay disappeared and the baby was with her
I have a picture of my mother in her cheerleading days, and, yes, the uniforms actually looked like that.
Seems a lot of recent movies have these "think up your own ending because we run out of ideas."
It’s not necessarily a bad thing as Long as it serves a greater thematic purpose.
There was an ending, just needs a bit of work which is cool
Yes they are forgetting movies suppose to mimic the art of story telling, intro-middle-end.
@@esyphillis101 Sometimes it does..."The Thing"... but this movie it's just a bad ending. This video didn't explain anything I didn't already see in the movie either.
One of my best friends wrote the screenplay.
Really? So what's your friend's take on the ending? Abduction or incineration? Looks like ashes to me, but the footprints would suggest otherwise.
Was he paid by the word?
@@paulcooper8818 lmao there were a LOT of words in the beginning, my god. Still enjoyed it though. The music was perfection, without it it would’ve been a lot less interesting.
Fantastic screenplay!
The ship design was handled very well.
I saw this movie last night, and it was amazing. I hope more people cover it.
Just finished this film. What an amazing surprise! This movie was so perfectly directed, shot, and acted. I really enjoyed it!
Well Everett and Fay both said they wanted to leave that small town so ....happy ending?
Who knows 🤷, unless there's a sequel in the near future.
The aliens are probing their asses for sure
Well the boy and girl ( Fay and Everett) both said how they wanted to get far away from the town earlier in the movie. Also the old lady says something that seems to go under the radar and nobody has caught it yet,,,,, she says "WE WANT IT TO MAKE THE NEWS". when Everett asks if it's okay to record just incase it's a news story. ( WE). Also wether you know it or not I'm just gonna tell you without going into why,, but the old lady is the girl from the train and pay attention to how she uses the word " WITCH" with herself and the story of the girl who stole the horse.
6:18 they are listening but they are from far away
Everyone in school had a teacher or school staff like the lady in the beginning who tells Everett about the squirrel in the band room.
I theorized that it wasn't a TV show, rather the Aliens watching people in town? Or that creepy old alien lady who set them up was watching them through the TV.
Why would the aliens watch humans through a 50s television set..?
@@eden20111 why would anyone? Who would have technology for watching through a human TV set?
This is good! I didn't think that it represented they were being watched but that makes so much sense
The whole movie was really well done, but it felt like the pilot episode of a series because the ending was so ambigious.
Yes. Imagine if we had a good series like this lol
Honestly I agree. I feel like there was so much nice build up but then the ending just felt...incomplete? I wish it was the start of a series because it just feels messy and unfinished this way. Ambiguous endings aren’t always the best way to go, and I don’t think this movie needed one.
They weren't abducted, they were incinerated. Remember in the woods, everything was burned and the ground was ash. When you see the radio tape recorder, the tape was burned, and it was laying in 3 piles of ash. They were killed for investigating.
baby is gone when they embrace at the end. she was manipulated to bring the kid to the place. they took the kid, and burned the rest. christ, that's depressing.
Hmm, I don't think so, their footprints were in the ash, therefore the ash was there before. I'm going for abduction.
I thought this at first too, but thought different due to the following evidence: 1) If they were incinerated how did their footprints get there? 2) If they were incinerated how are there still plants among the "ash"? Did the plants not get incinerated too? 3) How come the tape recorder isn't charred? Surely an incineration that hot would melt it?
@@ThinkStory there were plants amongst the ash in the forest. The footprints were there because they walked and stopped and the tape in the machine was charred and cover in ash not dust. They were incinerated and so was the evidence. And they czn do all that because they are thousands of years more advanced than us.
I don't think it was anything but an abduction, if for no other reason than the story has no reason to be that morbid. It celebrates the search for the beyond, it's not a cautionary tale.
Great movie, so evocative of the paranoia of the era.
But in my opinion, Faye, Everett and the toddler are all dead, reduced to Ash either by the engines of the ship or some weapon, the same as Hollis (remember Mabel said the ground was dry and dusty?). The dust we see at the end is all that's left of them.
Only flaw in my suggestion is that if that were the case...there'd be no footprints. So maybe I'm wrong...I kind of hope so as I grew to like the characters.
Why would the aliens go through all that mind control, etc, just to incinerate them? Could be we don't know their motives but most hints point to some sort of abduction to me.
@@anastasia-fr1gn only the body is abducted the clothes were incinerated
I thought when you put ending explained in the title you were going to explain the ending my bad
hahahahaha
I mean there wasn't really anything to explain asides from its what the watcher decides
10:51 I actually googled the history of cheerleading uniforms while watching this 😂
Really enjoyed this movie, it felt like watching an old movie, but with modern technology. The look feel and dialogue feels like something from the 50s too, which I really liked. I liked how it has an ambiguous ending. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are things that we can’t explain up there watching us
This was a phenomenal movie..absolutely amazing..I felt like the camera/composition represented the "alien"! Loved it!
I thought they were vaporized, turned into ashes.
How would they leave footprints in their own vaporized ashes?
@@harkody4404 that ´s true....you are smart.
Har Kody how do we know if the footprints are theirs!!
@@vishnuvardhanreddymukku Weren't the footprints actually leading to the tape recorder, so then they weren't their footprints at all. It didn't make sense. They were standing WITH the tape recorder.
Except if they were vaporized how did the recorder remain intact?
Most underrated part is when Faye flips on the radio, and Everett’s voice gets distorted and the signal interrupts his broadcast.
Holy shitballs that’s the most genius and disturbing part!!!
3:40 camera actually does cut, it's just a hidden cut/transition if you pay attention to whats happening inside the basket ball while the camera enters (3:35 - 3:37) you'll notice something's slightly off with depth. You don't usually notice it unless you're looking for it.
Pretty sure they were all incinerated. Maddy may have been abducted, and Everett and Fay were just manipulated to get her there, but someone most definitely got ashed there. The tech used to incinerate them may only affect organic matter, hence the recorder is still there. The footprints (which seemed paradoxical when I first watched it) suggest that "someone" came by afterward to dispose of any evidence. Walked through the ashes to get the camera and the tapes from the recorder (which itself was too big and cumbersome to bother with). In the end, the only witnesses not under opposition control are dust on the wind. Years later people in the town may ask "Remember when those kids disappeared?" They might speculate, and everyone will have their own theories, but ultimately it'll be dismissed as something as unimportant as "Was it squirrel or a chipmunk?"
I was wondering the same thing, were they turned to dust. How could their own footprints be in the dust after they were abducted.
@@gameoverwehaveeverypixelco1258 Yeah, I feel like a lot of people who simply don't want them to have been smoked are too quick to use the footprints as evidence that they somehow survived.
@@benglenn2415 Lmao they weren’t incinerated... all 3 of them were abducted. So what you’re saying is through the whole movie, the aliens attracted them to the field just to incinerate them? Makes zero sense 😂😂😂😂. Also that was DIRT on the ground that accumulated when they were being abducted. Notice how there was a swirl of wind going around them like a tornado. That’s what caused the mound of DIRT in that spot.
Very well done movie, best low budget sci fi since Monsters in my opinion.
This movie has a sort of charm that you do not normally see in sci-fi movies anymore - not since the 50's anyway. The plot is good, but the characters and ambience are even better.
The only off-putting part is all the pre-game jabbering at the very beginning of the movie.
Thank you for the great analysis and explanations. Also the information about the making of the film you provided were great context for its technical achievements.
The setting of the film is Cayuga, NM. Rod Serling named his production company after the lake in NY where his summer house was. In the classic TZ episode Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? the bus line that is on the bus is Cayuga. This episode matches up with others that noticed that the radio station WOTW was War of the Worlds.
Watched and enjoyed. Thanks for your review!!
Ending EXPLAINED!
"You figure it out idk lol"
Good movie. I like what you said about the spaceship being made out of earth materials. Maybe they're us from the future. Sequel?
If there is a sequel, I like to imagine that Everett and Fay are returned to Earth a few days later and they are both heavily in shock and Fay’s baby sister is missing.
@@alyssalopez1793 Just a few days?
I really liked this movie(though the constant running exhausted me!), but am wondering if the two young people and the baby were turned to ash as they stood there. The recorder certainly had a melted look to it, and there was a pile of ashes where the three of them stood. But it’s up to the viewer’s imagination, after all!👽🪐✨🛸
The aliens are us, watching the show....
This movie was surprisingly good... well acted and like a twilight zone movie!
"Free will is impossible"...Being controlled by aliens...seems like the writers might have been influenced by They Live!
5:01 unlikley, given the old laddy said they have been coming here for a long time, since she was little, and that her story was oldder than the other caller's story, showing the train kidnapping happened before the military took their crashed ships
I love lil towns like this and people simple and kind. That's why aleins visit them may be
I really wish Amazon released the part 2 of this sosososo good movie.....probably the best Amazon original I have ever seen!!
The shot from the switch room to the school to the radio station was really cool.
I think the movie ending was open ended, allowing the viewers to make up their own minds of what happened. For me, even though there are two piles of dust, I believe they were abducted. Something that I took notice of was that earlier at the radio station there was a record of Peter Pan. That was the tipping point to me that the ending was benevolent.
I’ll add this as a reply instead of editing. I’ve had the night to think on this more and I’ll add this. I believe that the two piles of dust were not cremated ashes, they were pixie dust from Tinker Bell (seriously!). Maddy was already being held so two piles of dust with all three taken. The Peter Pan record album was new in 1958 (November 1958 according to the director was the film setting). The album includes the song “You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!” In the 1953 Disney movie (according to many sources on the web but watching the film it says 1952), the three kids can fly only after pixie dust is placed on them. Also, the flip side of the record is Alice in Wonderland. We have what is described as a tornado, so I’ll include The Wizard of Oz. The “tornado” takes the three “up” the rabbit hole and on to Oz and Never Land. There is also a character named Susan Oliver (Vina from the original Star Trek series). As long as I’m mentioning Star Trek, at the end of Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, Kirk says “Second Star to the right and straight on ‘til morning.” This is from Peter Pan. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it. 😀
Watching Peter Pan 1952/1953, Peter Pan says “All it takes is faith and trust… and DUST. Pixie dust.”
To add to the Alice in Wonderland clues, in the NYT interview video Andrew mentioned going “down the rabbit hole.” In addition, I think, if you watch the official movie teaser it begins with a cat (kitten) painting behind Fay. In two later views, the cat “disappears.” So is this a Cheshire Cat? In the finished film the cat is always there so they used discarded takes (without the cat) in the teaser supposedly. But like I mentioned, the trailer begins with the cat there so I believe this “disappearing” cat was an intentional clue.
As far as The War of the Worlds (the radio station is WOTW as others have mentioned), both Peter Pan and WOTW were released in 1953 (!). We have a “General Mann” that is covered in dust after a nuclear bomb is dropped on the three Martian war machines. He is a “two star” General so I can combine two things that I have mentioned before. “Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning” and Star Trek “To boldly go where no man (Mann?) has gone before.” After all, he WAS covered in dust. 😊
I have more to share regarding the Cheshire Cat theory of mine. Billie says things like “hidden details” and “that’s where you have to make the jump.” He then says “It’s something talking and then disappearing” and “something very high that we can’t see.” Like I thought before, this adds to my Cheshire Cat theory. Also, as to the footprints disappearing, in the 1951 Alice in Wonderland film the Cheshire Cat (while invisible) walks around Alice and “makes a jump” up into a tree. The footprints stop, just like in TVON. Hmm, as I typed this I noticed “TV ON.” Oh, in addition to the disappearing kitten only in the official trailer the radio (voice) next to it also disappears. This is all important.
If someone could do the things Everett can nowadays, he would not be as cool as he was in the 50’s. I would love to talk as smooth as he can
The twighlight zone vibes are cool
I really wanted to like this movie and I loved the fact that it was specifically designed to be a hammy twilight zone/era centric paranoia but it was just so...not enough. Good video though
What was not enough? You want more aliens and lazers?
I noticed that a lot of people were wearing glasses. Almost everyone
You Tube poll:
Abducted or Vaporized??
I’m team Vaporized
I'm on side abducted.
Vaporized . Ashh in the grass???? That was their ashes
Everett and Fay were vaporized, and Maddy was taken. That’s why you see them embracing without Maddy at the end. 🛸
@@portiastgermain2996 the thing is that if they were vaporized, there wouldn’t have been a footprint in the dust. Assuming the dust is their ashes, they couldn’t have left a footprint there after they had been vaporized
Not sure about the footprints in the ash, but there was heaps of ashes mounded up around the recording device, more so there than in other places, pointing to those being the remains of their bodies ... and how do you explain the absence of Maddy as they embrace in the light of the ship?
Mabel Blanche. a perfect 50's name.
No that's NOT a pile of dust, that's their ashes, they got cremated when the ship took off.
Okay so yeah. You DID clear up some confusion I was experiencing trying to figure out what was transpiring in the final few minutes of the movie so yeah, thanks for that. Cheers.
Loved this film! They did an awesome job of slowly building up the atmosphere and suspense. I only wish poor mabel would have been reunited with her son.
At the end it looks like the recorder is in something fine like ash, not really dirt. But we also see their footprints in it. So I'm not sure they would have been incinerated, or maybe other people would have been incinerated on that very spot not long before.
I don't usually like open endings but this one was finely made.
They weren’t incinerated smh...
Apparently anything circle resembles a suacer or is supposed to be a saucer
"Mable Blanche" think that was the name of my cabbage patch kid lol Loved this little flick! 👽🛸
I don’t think that they were incinerated at the end. Andrew Patterson has said that this was an alien abduction movie and I don’t think he meant just the train passengers and the 9 year old boy. There was a description of circulating winds like a tornado. This might be a connection to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz where Dorothy is taken to Oz by a tornado. Another connection between the two films is the transition from B&W to color.
Thoroughly enjoyable adventure. I thought that they were disintegrated into a pile of dust. The foot tracks were Fays walking toward Everett resulting in her and baby sibs death too. Witnesses are eliminated, their curiosity got them killed. It was sad. Perfect ending for a Twilight Zone type of morality story. Mabels son was curious too and disappeared leaving the grieving mother unable to accept his death and fantasizing that he was taken. There is no evidence that he was taken, just Mabels hope...aka our hope for Fay and Everett.
Sounds like She said " must be like newly listener, may/me go far far away".
Let us not forget the JJ Abrams (copout) mystery box. Keeping your audience guessing makes good cinema but not having an answer at the end revealed... you get a movie that is a hollow shell. Then you get film students who critique the daylights out of a film and analyze it like it’s got so much more in it. I’m not saying this wasn’t a good film, I’m saying film critics and analyzers put about 500% more into these films then what they actually have. “Ambiguity” in interpretation can be a copout hack of un-originality instead of profound ingenuity in cinema. Just look at Donnie Darko and Southland Tales, worshipped but not worth adoring, hollow shells by hair-brain filmmaker Richard Kelly (who knows longer makes films but just cry’s about Trump on Twitter). Kelly was later exposed fo the hack that he is, convoluted plot points with no coherent answers. In your face cinematography (lifted blacks and long takes) doesn’t make a film great either.
Finally someone agrees with me. There were good aspects but building up a mystery and not giving a real answer is never good writing imo. And no, the old lady wasn’t enough of one.
Too funny, i literally just finished watching the movie and came on youtube to get ppls thoughts on it
Jamyl Jimenez same
Same
Same
Spoilers: go to the last 15 min
15 min or so? It was 45 min of convo, 20 min of her at the switchboard bc she heard a sound that no one new would even think twice abt it being a sound failure. The worst tried hard to seem like “the convo is normal.”
When it’s payed backwards it says we come in peace and we are from far away
I think they spent $1 on the actors and the rest of the money goes to that CGI spaceship.
"Ending explained!"
- "It's up to your interpretation!"
Okay...On the plus side, good video and review of the movie! But you didn't really explain the ending, bit of a misleading title there.
Shut up, the ending isn’t meant to be explained, and this is a series on his channel.
@@lordeverett5642 No I agree with a Senatic, I watched this video to get explanation of the ending, but I only got summary of the movie I just watched.
Also did anyone notice the weird words at the bottom of the screen at the end of the movie?
Disappointing. This should be titled "A Synopsis of The Vast of Night". The ending was not explained here. We are merely told and shown what happened on screen, which could be interpreted several ways.
Honestly, I don't get why all these _Ending Explained_ channels on TH-cam always give a synopsis of the flick and why they treat their viewers as if we did not even watch the film! 😄No one sane would watch an ending explanation video without first having viewed the movie. We're just here for the ending. And this did not deliver the goods.
We see burnt grass and trees in the forest at the end before the three characters are gone. Then we see a recorder on what looks like Ashes. The characters unfortunately were incinerated. I really don’t know why these Aliens would do it. What’s the point of killing some random people?!
Unlike the Twilight Zone, there wasn't a closing narrative explanation. It was definitely inspired by Spielberg especially the spaceships. One thing I can appreciate is they kept the movie period correct as far as the 50's era and social norms of the time, except the of course the design of the spaceships looked too 80's. 50's flying saucers usually look more like aluminum hubcaps or something very Mid Century Modern designed. Too many shows are ruined by making it "Reimagined for the Modern Audience". And the cheerleader outfits were generally between knee high up to the mid thighs, but long ones right down to the ankles also existed more in the early 50's and for your typical conservative God fearing small town which would be correct for this movie's setting... The costume designers did their homework!
Question I have not seen: what was up with those 2 random guys crouched in the dark in the beginning in the locker room. They sent that woman to go find Everett/ Emmit. They called Everett into that dark room and apparently they wanted someone else named Emmit. They said they thought Emmit worked at the radio station. Then Everett brushes them off and the movie continues.
I believe that was just setting up the history of electrical issues in the town by using a cutesy scene where that guy got everett mixed up with the electrician.
they're just the managers of the gym, they're old and senile, so they got Everet confused with the guy who repairs stuff
Favorite movie, I just finished it before I looked this up!
Can someone explain why at the end there was a pile of Ash with and all about the tape recorder?
@alan bane Interesting view. 👌
I don’t think they were incinerated. It doesn’t make sense. The tape recorder would be incinerated too and there wouldn’t be footprints leading up to it either. There was a lot of wind(like the wind the old woman was talking about when her son was taken) when they were taken. I think it was just dirt kicked up by the wind.
sentient_mimi 16 - you’re right, they were not incinerated. They were in a burnt field full of ash to start with, and the pile of ash around the tape recorder was just that same ash piled around the only object left behind after the humans were abducted. Plus, why would the aliens incinerate them, when abducting them also keeps them quiet, and provides more subjects to study?
Lmao they weren’t incinerated... all 3 of them were abducted. So what you’re saying is through the whole movie, the aliens attracted them to the field just to incinerate them? Makes zero sense 😂😂😂😂. Also that was DIRT on the ground that accumulated when they were being abducted. Notice how there was a swirl of wind going around them like a tornado. That’s what caused the mound of DIRT in that spot.
Funny references with word play: Everett, Ever ET.. WOTF, war of the worlds.
On a side note: people in the sky reminded me of a documentary about the sky people and Aztec's people with helmet sculpted in stones, and also a spaceship landing terrain. Does anyone knows the name of that documentary?
This movie left us wonder, and that's the beauty of it. I still want to know what the old lady said with those unknown words, do you really think it's just made up?
Thank you for the video, it was soooooo entertaining. I actually want to go watch this movie now but that’s nothing new. Every Time I watch one of your videos I always wanna go watch the movie; because you just somehow make every part of the movie seem entertaining and captivating lol. 💛💛💛💛
Thank you!
With the greatest of respect, why would you watch this without seeing the film (unless I've misunderstood your comment)?
Anybody know why he hid the trombone?
Now that guy is never going to get his trombone back.
Yeah, he says the guy sucked at it and it would be better if he didn't play it.
@@ThinkStory I know not every detail serves the plot, but Everett carrying around that trombone not only adds a moving motif/concrete through line, but helps establish Everett as the discerning ear of the community(of seemingly rubes) -- THE one those shadowy aliens really need to take out!
i would say they were disintegrated to ashes... possibly. I'd give it at 50 50 against abduction.
So they attracted them to that spot just to roast them? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think we would of seen burn evidence on the tape recorder
my first take was that the dust left behind could have been the remains of our two protagonists after they were insinerated
I thought this too but it doesn’t explain the footprints from them on their own ashes.
Lmao they weren’t incinerated... all 3 of them were abducted. So what you’re saying is through the whole movie, the aliens attracted them to the field just to incinerate them? Makes zero sense 😂😂😂😂. Also that was DIRT on the ground that accumulated when they were being abducted. Notice how there was a swirl of wind going around them like a tornado. That’s what caused the mound of DIRT in that spot.
@@eden20111 calm down love
You forgot to mention the abandoned car at the end of the movie with its lights on and its front doors open on each side. What happened to the couple inside? Was that the vehicle that the outsider couple was driving? And what happened to them?
That was the car that Everett was driving.
Of course the ship looks like it could be made with materials from Earth. The table of elements is universal. Mars isn't made of stuff that isn't on this planet for example.
Cap!!
Your voice is very calming. I....think...I...might...love you?
Or it could be the aliens!?