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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:31 pm    Post subject: The Beyond Reply with quote

I just watched THE BEYOND on NETFLIX and found it to be a terrific hard science film. It's presented in a semi-documentary style with character interviews, CNN style newsreels and character commentary.



A synopsis of the story :

In 2019 an anomaly appears above the earth. Communications disrupted, there is a power outage on the International Space Station (ISS), and an astronaut, Jim Marcell, goes missing (presumed dead). Alex Grant (Barber), Head of Exploration Missions, reveals that this isn't the first time the anomaly had encountered, as it first appeared in 1990 when it was visible for two months before mysteriously disappearing.

The Space Agency, run by Gillian Laroux (Perry) sends probes into the anomaly. Communication with the probes soon lost, but data analysis reveals it might be a wormhole, with a planet-like structure on the other side. Scientists give the anomaly the name 'The Void'. Cosmologist Jessica Johnson (Comiskey) argues that this could be a first contact event. Despite resistance from her team, Laroux wants to send astronauts to investigate further. She quickly raises funding for a full expedition. Cold water is poured on Laroux's idea by astrophysicist Professor Jakob Brukiehm (David Bailie) who says it would be suicidal due to the gravitational waves. The only feasible solutions he says are robotics or probes.



Strange orbs then begin to appear in the sky, and The Void starts emitting waves. Concern rises about the threat posed by The Void and The Spheres. A secret US military organisation offers its classified robotics technology - Human 2.0 - to help solve the Space Agency's dilemma. Human 2.0 was designed to fuse human brains with synthetic bodies to create more robust soldiers. The US military argues this technology will allow the Space Agency to send an astronaut successfully into The Void.



Some candidates considered for the project before wheelchair user and drone pilot Carl Roberts (Tom Christian) is selected. However, the procedure to fuse Roberts' brain with the plastic body fails, and Roberts dies. After struggling with her decision, Jessica Johnson volunteers to be the next candidate and this time the procedure is successful. The US military also produces a Human 2.0 soldier to accompany Johnson on her mission, with this version containing unspecified weaponry.



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DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE ENDING FOR YOURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
























Johnson and the 2.0 soldier are launched into The Void, with Johnson reporting beautiful lights before disappearing. Five days later the mission returns unexpectedly, but when the capsule is recovered only Johnson is in the craft, with no sign of the Human 2.0 soldier. The ship looks like it has been in space for a very long time.

Johnson is put unconscious into quarantine where scientists attempt to retrieve data from her brain. They discover several years of memories have been made - far more than the week since she launched into The Void.

Tensions continue to rise on earth, and military organisation begin to attack The Spheres. Johnson wakes up and reveals what she remembers after the communications blackout. She says there was a lot of light and when she closed her eyes the Human 2.0 soldier mysteriously transported out of the craft. She says the soldier looked fearful and kept looking at his arm, which detonated like a nuclear bomb. She passed out and awoke on a planet.

On the earth, she met Jim Marcell who communicated to her that everything was going to be okay. The Space Agency is sceptical about Johnson's memories, although Laroux is hopeful this means Marcell is alive and The Void and The Spheres are not malign.

Soon after Johnson awakes, the solar system is destroyed and the debris is spotted heading for earth in a planet-destroying event. Suddenly The Spheres begin to change and form a protective barrier around the earth.

The realisation dawns that the presence of The Spheres has been completely misinterpreted as an attack, whereas they'd been sent to protect the earth. The Void disappears. Marcell is detected in the Arizona desert unharmed but without any memory of what has happened.

In the aftermath of the events, a new solar system appears, with another planet almost identical to earth, offering new hope for humanity.

The film ends with Human 2.0s on Earth 2.0 encountering the lifeforms from The Void.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope Netflix offers this up on DVD. I look forward to seeing it.
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