Bix the Bug persuades his MIT-buddy to loan him his Tesla device - in order to find a crucial new sound with witch to attract people to his DJ-shows. Bix' old pal and manager is only in it for the money - which becomes obvious from the several times he goes behind Bix' back to sell the Tesla device to bad guys. "You don't know what you have", says the super bad guy, "who owns half of Europa or something..." But as it will soon become obvious... so does no one else.
Bix refuses to sell, now that incorporating the Tesla device into his performances has brought him success with his concerts. The protests of his MIT-friend, that making the sounds from the device public will bring bad people scrambling to (for what ever reason - we are not told), are quietly dealt with by spiking him with some Ecstasy - so "he can live a little, maybe for the first time."
And so it is. The MIT-buddy is happily persuaded to go along with Bix' plans - but some eco- terrorists, whose power pack the Tesla device is using, come to take both away, and Bix is shown an image of his buddy on a phone, dead from a bullet to the head. "This is what will happen if you don't deliver the power pack to us!"
Bix has a vision that his friend is not dead, and discovers the whereabouts of the power pack. He is now fully attuned to the Tesla device and certain that the sounds it is producing are extraterrestrial, and that the receptions through the device are a sequence of some importance.
YaddaYaddaYadda - Bix and his manager buddy drive to the Joshua tree in the desert and text his crowd to come for one last concert. During the concert the power pack is failing, but when Bix directly interfaces with the device, it somehow attains enough power to finish the sequence of received sounds. Which result in a nice light shower in the night sky - much like the final light show from Spielberg's Close Encounters - in the shape of a giant flower.
And that's it.
What was it? Some Ecstasy vision?
But then we see, as we have seen throughout the film - as Bix has explained how he has always felt watched - an image of every human in his or her own existence of observation, in their own consciousness sphere, life bubble or similar explanation. All are like little mirrors of existence (similar to the surveillance layout from the TV-series "Person of Interest"). All are simultaneously co-existing in the same sphere - the Earth. And the camera pulls out to show the whole of the Earth. And pulls further and further back, until we see that the whole of the galaxy consists of the same gatherings of life-spheres.
End. --
I was not bored. Just very annoyed with the script. And the actors. The message is fine - but as a postulate is leaves the film hanging: We go through all this, SO that the director can tell us the Universe is teaming with life?!
Some other review called it new-age crap or the like. I wouldn't go as far. I see a scriptwriter and a director striving to bring forth a vision - but if feels awfully like an Ecstasy vision. In the sense: It is a projection of personal need upheld only by this need.
The same with the consciousness bubbles in the movie - on Earth and in the Universe. (Which may also be little spheres of surveillance by some other entity - it is open to interpretation.) You can say they are there. But then what?
That is the problem with the script throughout. Nothing is made to matter. Relations, concepts, fates, threats. I was never involved. I was curious to see if the makers themselves knew where they were going. But I believe I can now safely say that if they did, they kept it to themselves.
Bix refuses to sell, now that incorporating the Tesla device into his performances has brought him success with his concerts. The protests of his MIT-friend, that making the sounds from the device public will bring bad people scrambling to (for what ever reason - we are not told), are quietly dealt with by spiking him with some Ecstasy - so "he can live a little, maybe for the first time."
And so it is. The MIT-buddy is happily persuaded to go along with Bix' plans - but some eco- terrorists, whose power pack the Tesla device is using, come to take both away, and Bix is shown an image of his buddy on a phone, dead from a bullet to the head. "This is what will happen if you don't deliver the power pack to us!"
Bix has a vision that his friend is not dead, and discovers the whereabouts of the power pack. He is now fully attuned to the Tesla device and certain that the sounds it is producing are extraterrestrial, and that the receptions through the device are a sequence of some importance.
YaddaYaddaYadda - Bix and his manager buddy drive to the Joshua tree in the desert and text his crowd to come for one last concert. During the concert the power pack is failing, but when Bix directly interfaces with the device, it somehow attains enough power to finish the sequence of received sounds. Which result in a nice light shower in the night sky - much like the final light show from Spielberg's Close Encounters - in the shape of a giant flower.
And that's it.
What was it? Some Ecstasy vision?
But then we see, as we have seen throughout the film - as Bix has explained how he has always felt watched - an image of every human in his or her own existence of observation, in their own consciousness sphere, life bubble or similar explanation. All are like little mirrors of existence (similar to the surveillance layout from the TV-series "Person of Interest"). All are simultaneously co-existing in the same sphere - the Earth. And the camera pulls out to show the whole of the Earth. And pulls further and further back, until we see that the whole of the galaxy consists of the same gatherings of life-spheres.
End. --
I was not bored. Just very annoyed with the script. And the actors. The message is fine - but as a postulate is leaves the film hanging: We go through all this, SO that the director can tell us the Universe is teaming with life?!
Some other review called it new-age crap or the like. I wouldn't go as far. I see a scriptwriter and a director striving to bring forth a vision - but if feels awfully like an Ecstasy vision. In the sense: It is a projection of personal need upheld only by this need.
The same with the consciousness bubbles in the movie - on Earth and in the Universe. (Which may also be little spheres of surveillance by some other entity - it is open to interpretation.) You can say they are there. But then what?
That is the problem with the script throughout. Nothing is made to matter. Relations, concepts, fates, threats. I was never involved. I was curious to see if the makers themselves knew where they were going. But I believe I can now safely say that if they did, they kept it to themselves.