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BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION (2021) Ending Explained

1.6M views · May 16, 2022 · Entertainment

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@lovegood141 · 4 years ago (edited)
Mr foundflix man, I don’t really comment on YouTube vids and Ik ur not gonna see this but I just wanna say I’m really grateful for ur vids. Your channel is so chill, helpful for when I don’t wanna watch the whole movie or don’t understand parts of it, and your voice is so relaxing to listen to (like I’m at a campfire listening to stories and because I’m so use to hearing it over the years I’ve been subscribed to ur channel) I hope for more years of watching your channel
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@illustriousSad · 4 years ago (edited)
The way I see it James made this whole thing up. The tapes was his escape to blame it on someone else. He doesn't wanna be held responsible for his wife's death.
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@Kira-El · 4 years ago
I think Nora at one point offered him a way out he could've just gone out with her and let all that stuff go but he just could not let go even when offered an off ramp.
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@lubbi0156 · 4 years ago
The ”I Feel Fantastic” inspiration feels like something that needs to be mentioned in a video like this
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@x3dfritz0 · 4 years ago (edited)
unreliable protaganists are so good when done right. constantly making you question even the most mundane scenes, making you think back on previous ones and wonder if they really happened or not. very interesting
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@WarDragon72345 · 4 years ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq_d0aLSKdI&t=37">0:37</a> What the clips of the masked person strongly reminds me of is the video of that robot saying "I feel fantastic".
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@DLHRocker · 4 years ago
I think you're right with everything there at the end, Alice is a figment of James' mind trying to conjure up his wife to in a way help him along, and all the things she says is trying to help him come back to reality and give him the truth of what has happened. But as you said he doesn't want to believe he was responsible in any way shape or form for Hannah's death. So when Alice was saying that the investigation was over, that was essentially his wife saying "You have your answers, from me and all these people you have talked to, now come back to reality and stop chasing a pipe dream" But when he wouldn't listen she disappeared because that was her giving James his final warning before he fully descends into madness. James was warned time and time again through the movie, but each time rejected the warnings for his own reality where he is the hero and could never be the villain.
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@matthewsalyer9804 · 4 years ago
I actually think the ending is the answer to Hannah’s disappearance. He’s trying to come up with a scenario that makes him the hero, where I kinda think that he killed her. The fact that it’s clearly Hannah walking into the road at first but changes to a nonhuman being when they actually collide is him trying to avoid responsibility. That’s just my theory.
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@mischief1824 · 4 years ago
I think this might be the first time that your explanation didn't make me less scared of a movie 😱😰 that mask, man......... nope nope nope!
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@LunetteFox · 4 years ago
This is a pretty sad look at a lot of real people in life today; they want answers but sometimes reject the truth because it's not what they expected or wanted to hear. Reality is stranger than fiction they say, but the fiction some people create for reality can be terrifying.
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@punishedbrak4255 · 4 years ago (edited)
The film has several of it's own kind of "subliminal intrusions" that pop up in dialogue and scenes; things like James getting uncomfortable when asked what he does for fun (only stating he likes cameras), Alice's dialogue about Stalking and how it makes her feel in control and powerful, repeated allusions to young girls, Spying and Voyeurism, Phone Tapping, Surveillance; digging into people's private lives and past, James attending those meetings but never discussing anything and just watching others; those with mental issues being fascinated/obsessed with tech and the Phreaking culture, analog tech in general, multiple characters with mental issues like the group of kids that did the first Sal-E hijack, and just the entire Hannah memory/video itself: it's highly revealing - Notice how James seems to be running after her? Chasing her? She's never turned to him, and when she does, she turns into Sal-e in his memories: an idealized object, essentially (as much as I loathe the framing as it's usually used); I don't think James was ever married to her or even knew her. He was stalking her, murdered her, and took her wedding ring. He obsessed over her, even having videos of her Ballet performances. He likely was a telephone operator, in line with his dialogue with Alice about what she "learned" on the Tapes. That puts the "Stop filming me" line in the Final Tape he has of her in a completely different context: she sounds like she's half-heartedly laughing because she's nervous and doesn't know James. It's also why he's so reluctant to give the specific Tape Player to the Chester guy and discuss the tape with him at all, basically shutting him out entirely any time he asks: it's the ONLY memory and evidence he has of them together, and its revealing of his true nature and what he did, which is what causes him the delusions when viewing it and trying to remember it: he needs the tape player to ever be able to experience that, but he desperately doesn't want to remember the end and what he did. At the end of the film, he has everything in his trunk as well, though to him and the viewer it's "circumstance": a mask, even likely the knives used in the tapes. Notice the mask is damaged and shows signs of attempted repair throughout the various tapes: James has been "fixing" it, the way he "Fixed all of them". It's HIS OWN story he's been "discovering", and filled the blanks in himself, about Sal-E and Hannah and it all in the first place based on the in-universe actual Doc Chronos hijack. When he forces the confession out of the Stranger on the farm at the end, it's entirely a story of his creation, which is why the guy is terrifyingly confused and why James says "you'll understand" when asked why he's doing this and if he'll stop if he just reads James's message. Furthermore, it's clear he's wearing Hannah's jacket; if he wasn't there when she disappeared, how would he have it, or think/know she was wearing it in his memories of running through the field? It's because he took it after chasing her down. Think about all of the equipment he has in his apartment before the movie even starts; why would he have it all? Just because his job is to watch for Signal Intrusions? It doesn't add up and paints a picture of James as a neurotic, obsessive individual who gets a weird pleasure from immersing himself in his voyeuristic world, surrounded by his tapes and equipment, obsessing over them. Essentially, I believe James is either one of the original Kids who participated in the Sal-E hijacks, or, influenced by them so greatly, projected a kind of copycat mentality onto them, taking inspiration from them for his sick actions and an excuse in the form of the hijacks, allowing him his delusions of innocence. What's happening in the later Tapes (everything but the original 1987 Sal-E hijacking tape) is meant to be evocative of the violence James has done to these women and how he views his actions in the context of being "someone else". It might be reaching, but with the director being the age they are, I wouldn't doubt if there's some Silent Hill 2 inspiration going on there.
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@sonablom · 4 years ago
Makes me think of Memento. Grieving husband with questions can’t accept answers that don’t give him closure so creates closure by implicating Teddy.
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