BlackBart2012

The guy who wrote this article is obviously a 13-year old kid who has no imagination and no capability of seeing things without being told. He simply cannot figure things out on his own.

The jellyfish in the sky is an example of his not having any imagination. This movie was not meant to graphically show an alien invasion. If they did that, it would have extended the movie and it would have taken us away from the point of the movie. Therefore, they showed that they multiplied like rabbits, starting with just one in the sky in the early moments of the film, and then, by the time J (played by Will Smith) was on the ledge of the building, they began to rapidly multiply while he was discussing how to use the time machine medallion. They then showed that the jellyfish tried to stop Will's jump, and they left the rest up to imagination.

They showed PLENTY with the relationship between K (played by Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones) and Miss O (played by Alice Eve and Emma Thompson). This wasn't meant to be a love story. It was meant to show just enough for the imagination--IF you have one at all--but it wasn't the main part of the storyline. It was just enough to show that there WAS something going on between the two--but that something suddenly changed on that day in 1969 that changed K and that made him turn into a sad and bitter old man--something that "put out the fire" between he and O, something that didn't even have anything to do with O, but it still ruined his relationship with HER--and ALL other women, because it made him turn into a grumpy old man. But if you don't have an imagination, you wouldn't see that.

They showed PLENTY to prove that Boris IS an animal! Has this "journalist" no imagination at all? That Boris would kill everyone in sight, if he could, is enough right there to show that he was an animal. They even showed that he would kill just for not liking what someone says. He's mean--and he's ruthless. What more does this journalist need before he sees the point?

The REAL reason for J making the "time jump" was not to rescue K from the clutches of the evil demon--even if that IS what they say. If you have any imagination at all, you would be able to figure out that the real reason they had J make that jump was to see what happened to his daddy.

"Why K is so sad" is another show of this "journalist's" lack of imagination and understanding, which is SO BAD that he completely failed to see the MAIN POINT of the entire movie. <<"Whatever it is, it hasn't happened yet," says Brolin. Oooh! So it's going to happen, then!>> And it DID happen. The problem with this "journalist" is that he needs to be TOLD everything, because he has no imagination at all.

WHEN did it happen? To answer that, you need to ask, "Who was the Colonel?" and "Who was the little boy?" Earlier in the movie, we were shown that J carries a silver pocket-watch that was given to him by his daddy, one that his daddy said was given to him by his daddy--which is J's grandfather.

When K succeeds in placing the medallion on the Apollo space rocket he is talking with the Colonel, in the midst of trying to recruit him, when suddenly and unexpectedly, Boris the animal comes out from nowhere and kills the Colonel, but this time, being forewarned early in the movie by J, K doesn't just arrest Boris, but he kills him.

THAT was the life-changing event--not the killing of Boris the animal, but of the DYING of the Colonel--because who IS that man? Who is he to J? and who is J? and how is K connected between the two? Those questions are answered in what happened next--and again, it's the MOST IMPORTANT POINT of the entire movie...

The camera pans out into the background, to show that there's a car parked on the beach. A little boy gets out of the car and asks K, "Where's my daddy?" He's a little black boy. The Colonel was black. It's easy to figure out that his daddy was the Colonel, who is now dead.

K takes out his taser and tases the little boy, to remove his memory that K had anything to do with his daddy, and then he tells the little boy, "Your daddy was a hero". Then the little boy shows him a pocket-watch that his daddy had just given him--one that was his daddy's daddy's pocket-watch. It's the same watch that J is carrying around. Does the "journalist" who has no imagination at all, need to be TOLD who the little boy is? They gave a very STRONG and UNMISTAKABLE clue--and yet this "journalist" entirely missed the point.

Now here's why I called the "journalist a 13-year old"... He cannot figure out on his own--because he needs to be TOLD--what had made K so sad and bitter for the rest of his life--and what ruined it between him and Miss O. Throughout his entire career, K had to kill many people (or be killed), but this one hurt the most. When this "journalist" matures, he'll learn about human emotion, and then maybe he'll understand what I'm about to say. This one hurt the most, because with each death, that was just another man. However, with THIS death, that man who had just died was somebody's FATHER!

When the little boy came to K, asking "Where is my father? What happened to him? When is he coming back to get me?" need I say that that tore his heart apart? Think of the tremendous guilt that he carried with him for the rest of his life! One with an imagination can only imagine that he surely must have felt, "I should have known that Boris would have struck again! It's all MY fault! It's MY fault that that little boy's father was killed! Had I only been ALERT, I would have protected him!" And then again, one with an imagination could imagine that K watched J grow up, and then one day he recruited him--not just to "recruit him" but to PROTECT him, and not just to protect him, but to make up that he felt he didn't protect his daddy.

In the last scene of the movie, J shows K that NOW he understands--because now he has had a chance to go back in time and watch it all happen. NOW he understands why Miss O shut off his computer access just as he was about to find out WHAT happened at Cape Canaveral and WHO was killed there. NOW he knows why K is an old and grumpy man. Because HE has seen, HE understands. He shows K the silver pocket-watch--the one that he's been carrying around since that day in 1969, the one that his daddy gave him, the one that originally belonged to his grandfather, and then he says some words of comfort to K. Now K can be relieved of the guilt that he'd been carrying for 40 years. Now he knows that he's been forgiven by the little boy who lost his daddy on that day in 1969. THAT was the MAIN POINT of the WHOLE movie!