After disobeying Olga’s orders, Elio sneaks into a command center and sends the equivalent of a voice memo out into space, asking any alien lifeforms to come retrieve him from earth, which of course they do, but unlike popular depictions of alien abductions, these extraterrestrials are benevolent, utopian creatures with a government reminiscent of a Star Wars senate they refer to as the “Communiverse”. The film’s resolution, which sees Grigon exit his carapace and expose his own “softness” to care for a sick Glordon by swaddling and cuddling him, as well as accepting his son’s desire not to become a warlord, is a decided rejection of the conservative ideologies the Hylurgians represent. What starts out as enlisting help from Elio’s bullies and Olga’s work colleague turns into a global grass-roots effort to aid the aunt and nephew in a montage of international voices saluting the pair in a variety of languages, before sharing coordinates and trajectories of the incoming debris.
Author: Nicole Stawiarski
Published at: 2025-07-01 22:00:00
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