Oblivion what is it about

Jump to: Summaries 6 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. Top Gap. See more gaps ». Create a list ». Movies with Balls. It is undeterminable when the catastrophe of loss of solar orbit would occur, but it would happen within a few more decades.

Advances in electronic medical diagnosis could explain how they could know virtually immediately or within hours or days anyway if she was pregnant and be able to identify the sex!

Please forgive any typos, incorrect English or punctuation errors…in just putting it out there. I do have a theory about the ending scene that, to me, seemed crystal clear.

The aircraft flew him there, or else how would he know where to go? Remember when he was in danger and 49 sent his aircraft home without him and it went straight there and landed all by itself? They established that fact when he 49 and Julia were talking by the lake. I think it was just poor editing when the voiceover reveals he knows about the daughter before he sees her. It was in the pod with her, what she had scrambled to unroll and look at and what she had hung on the stone mantel in the cabin.

There is no gain by allowing one of her many clones inside the heart of the ship, completely vulnerable. Also, there are a few interviews given by Joe Kosinski that clears up some of the mysteries, but not all.

Jack said as much before Sally opened the inner door. I watched it last night and it definitely confused the h…out of me. I have searched and read but you explanation is far the best. After reading your post, bet i will enjoy it watching the second time. For those who are wondering why jack was allowed into the Tet, it was because he said that him and Julia would be a better team instead of him and Victoria. I agree. I remember Jack 49 apparently swapped tech suits with 52, therefore it was really Jack 49 at the end still wearing 52s clothing.

Unless the costume designer or director made a mistake, or did not make us aware of another suit swap. I checked out the DVD at the library. Thank you everyone for your personal input. Many great points were made. My only gripe is that the author did not wright a book for the story or licensed it afterwards.

All questions could have or can answered in a well written science-based book. The lack of details makes it even more interesting and more deserving of a book.

Just one example and I think it was explained in the movie , the movie takes place in an undetermined time after the invasion, most likely a few thousand years after and not a few decades after the clones believed. Another example: everything has limited resources, even super machines so it consumed a big part of those resources during the invasion and the destruction of the Moon.

And I can go on and on… Does anybody want somebody to write the book for it? Why does the AI have to clone the humans at all. The drones could have been sufficient for protecting the energy stations on earth and keeping the human threat away.

Please inform if you are aware. I came across your sight while watching Oblivion for the second time today. Great explanation thank you! Thank you so much for explaining this. Watching the movie twice sort of clarified things but your page helped so much more. So many different and interesting views to the movie. I see many imaginative directors, producers and script writers, to be…. A few years late with response I know lol but just wanted to point out the last 2 or so minutes of movie for your question about Jack regaining his memory.

Paraphrasing but he asks do our souls die even if our bodies do. Since Julia was love of his life, he kept remembering her. Tet design inspire me and my game much. The reason why Jack 49 becomes self aware is that at 49 days the consciousness and pineal gland begin. This is a very good movie although I wish we got more details on where exactly the tet came from.

At first I was very confused about the movie but watched it a second time and understood. I found your article here, because I needed help understanding who 52 is at the end. And how come she landed in Grid 17 when Jack 49 has existed to check on it and eventually save her? There is no reason for Tet to recreate that scenario if it has happened before they destroyed the moon.

I think the timeline is off. This atleast would have put a biological face and personality on our alien enemy. It would make a future part 2 more enticing as something we could look forward to. If there was one enormous energy sucking and species killing Tet, it might seem feasible that more interstellar space faring alien races would be very willing to join forces in the annihilation of the Tet.

I would be willing to check out a movie based on this kind of good versus evil, and this evil ultimately being put down. Maybe with many different clones not mentioned in the original giving room for more actors. My understanding was that in the original mission Jack was on, to Titan, and it was there, and not near Earth, that they were pulled in the alien ship and ejected the pod beforehand, which would travel back to earth on limited power.

They want to kill all the humans and have infinite Jack clones. They would have instantly shot the plane down. Super weak ending. Drone delivering the bomb makes way more sense.

Your explanation was excellent. Some of it came together for me at the end but your summary totally helped with the missing pieces. Your explanation was excellent, but for one detail: there IS a mention on how the Tet harvests energy, supposedly for bringing humanity to Titan; by extracting Water for its fusion fuel, namely deuterium. Of course it could be extracted and leave Plus it would probably be easier to mine deuterium from space. This said, as a sci-fi lover, i find this a great movie, for the plot, for special effects, and for acting.

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Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. May 29 I think the best starting place for this movie is a scene that took place near the end.

Act 1 The movie starts with Jack Harper Technician 49 and his female partner — who we eventually discover are clones of the original Jack Harper and commanding officer from 60 years ago. Act 3 Meanwhile, back at the Scav hideout, three drones attack the Scavs. Like this: Like Loading June 22, at am. July 23, at pm. Qubezo says:.

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How is it that 20th century technology works on a future planet obliterated by war? In Oblivion Earth has been so ravaged by nuclear war that only drones dare circulate in parts of it. There also is a fully-functioning record player with records — in a lean-to in the woods. On the off-chance that there were still power lines nearby, it seems highly unlikely any power plant is still pumping the energy needed to use it.

The precious pods out at sea are, apparently, extracting hydrogen from sea water to use for energy. It's a smart technique for science-fiction storytelling; it eases the viewer into the world of the film.

The problem is that the world "Oblivion" introduces — an abandoned, depopulated Earth — is more interesting than the story it tells. Or, more accurately, the stories it tells, because "Oblivion," derivative to a fault, tries to be several science-fiction movies at once.

It tries and it fails. It's a wannabe mindbender that raises questions about its lead character's identity — except that the lead character is too sketchy to make these questions compelling. It's a story about humans struggling for survival in an environment controlled by technology — except it appears to be much more interested in the technology than in the humans.

It's a rah-rah action flick — except its action scenes aren't very good. The only thread "Oblivion" follows to the end is its "creation myth. Though most of the movie's characters are women, not one of them is able to do anything without Harper's help — not even the mother triangle that lives in the space uterus.

Only his rugged-but-sensitive masculinity holds the key to humanity's survival. The movie reaches for profundity, but all it grasps is misogyny. Tom Cruise as Jack. Morgan Freeman as Beech. Olga Kurylenko as Julia.