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Apr 2, 2017 · By Dan Jackson. Published on 4/2/2017 at 8:33 PM. Netflix. Warning: This post contains massive spoilers for the movie The Discovery, which is now available on Netflix, and discusses the ending in...
- Thomas’ Wife
- TV Interview
- What Is The Afterlife?
- Will & Isla
- Thomas’ Tests
- Isla’s Story
- Isla’s Suicide Attempt
- Stealing The Dead
- Will and Isla Get Close
- Lacey
Thomas is so involved in his work that he begins to neglect his wife. One evening, on their anniversary, his wife prepares dinner. Thomas doesn’t even step out of his office. His wife goes upstairs and drowns herself in the bathtub. Will is unable to continue living in the house and he leaves. He gives up on the research too. Thomas’ guilt leads hi...
Once the suicide rates reach a million, Thomas agrees to do a TV interview. This is the opening sequence of the movie. The journalist (Mary Steenburgen) is trying to sense if Thomas feels responsible for the many deaths. Thomas simply says “no”. Just then, a member of the crew thanks Thomas for his “fresh start” and blows his brains out.
I think it is important to stop and dive right into what the underlying concept here with the afterlife is. The different plane of existence that the consciousness gets transferred to, is not really an “afterlife” but more an “alternate life”. Let me clarify. When a person dies, a part of his consciousness is transferred to another version of his o...
Let’s continue with the plot. When Will finds out that the suicide toll has increased to a million, he decides that he needs to go back and stop his dad. On his way to his father’s place, he meets Isla (Rooney) on a ferry. Now, let’s get one thing straight. This conversation that we are shown with Isla, it’s not the first time. The first time, Isla...
Thomas is testing the machine on himself. They put Thomas in a near dead state to take recordings of his mind and defibrillate him back to life. Will feels that his father has started a cult. He tries telling Thomas to put an end to the research as people a dying because of it. Thomas doesn’t agree.
Later he happens to see Isla at a distance putting weights in her bag and walking into the ocean. Now would be a good time to talk about Isla. She’s someone who once had a son. On a day at the beach, she happens to fall asleep and her son wanders into the waters and drowns. Ever since, she has been unable to feel anything. Eventually, she also hear...
Will stops Isla from drowning. She’s angry with him for that. Will takes her back to the mansion. He tells Toby about it. Toby says that Isla will have to take a questionnaire before she can be inducted. This is when Isla finds out that Will’s dad is Thomas, the guy behind the proof to the afterlife. Thomas runs Isla through the questionnaire. She ...
Later, Thomas, Toby, and Will talk about how that recording can be made. Thomas suggests that he could be in the altered machine but needs to be dead a lot longer for it to record anything. So they plan to steal a dead body from a morgue. Isla decides to help. They head to a morgue. Toby goes in and makes up a story saying that his cousin Billy wen...
That night Isla sleeps on the bunk bed with Will. They talk about their childhood. Will tells Isla about his mother. Isla feels that she’s taking the spot of a person who might actually value life and that she doesn’t value hers. There is an interesting mention on the afterlife that is made. “Do animals have an afterlife? Bunnies, kittens, pigs, mo...
Isla talks to Lacey. Lacey is someone who has witnessed her father and sister hanging dead in their living room. They do this right after the discovery. Like million others, they kill themselves to get to the afterlife. Lacey is odd because she feels left out from her family suicide. Will and Isla return the body to the morgue. Well, they dump it a...
Summary: One year after the existence of the afterlife is scientifically verified, millions around the world have ended their own lives in order to “get there”. A man and woman fall in love while coming to terms with their own tragic pasts and the true nature of the afterlife. Director: Charlie McDowell. Writers: Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader.
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Netflix''s Original Movie "The Discovery" is a philosophical mind-bender with a major reveal in the ending. And if you re-watch it a second or third time, yo...
Mar 29, 2017 · 1h 42m. By Neil Genzlinger. March 29, 2017. What if life’s greatest mystery were solved? How would the world react? “The Discovery,” a star-laden film with simultaneous theatrical and Netflix...
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Mar 31, 2017 · By the end of The Discovery, the film finally feels like it’s starting to go somewhere, opening up more complex lines of inquiry. But then it just ends, leaving a bunch of...
Jan 21, 2017 · Jordan Hoffman. Sat 21 Jan 2017 10.20 EST. T he Discovery posits a world in which an afterlife has been scientifically proven. There are no specifics, other than concrete evidence that brainwaves...
