Continuity mistake: When they are at Sarah's house, the boy's father tells her to go outside and ask Lucas to pull the van around back. When Sarah walks to talk to Lucas her long braided hair is tucked into her shirt and her arms are crossed. In the next shot when the camera comes back, her hair is on the outside of her shirt despite her arms still being crossed. (00:45:55)
Midnight Special (2016)
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Directed by: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Joel Edgerton, Michael Shannon, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher
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Midnight Special is a Science Fiction drama about a little boy named Alton who discovers that he's hunted by a variety of factions due to his unique gifts such as getting classified Info, speaking in tongues and emitting a bright light at will. He wants to go home, a place that's unknown to everyone, including his dad Roy (Michal Shannon), mom Sarah (Kirsten Dunst) and family friend, Lucas (Joel Edgerton). This faverage chase feature is only moderately satisfying and there's little payoff in the boy-as-alien tale.
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Question: In the very last scene, we see Michael Shannon in shackles (presumably in a federal prison) with electroencephalographic sensors attached to his forehead and scalp, oddly gazing at the sunrise as two prison guards flank him. In the very last shot of the film, a closeup of his face, we see his eyes faintly glow for a split-second as he smiles a very slight smile. Question: Is the film implying that Alton is in otherworldly contact with his father, or that his father absorbed some of Alton's otherworldly power; or is it implying that, being the boy's biological father, he was the source of Alton's power? In any event, this may never be revealed, because the film barely made back one-third of its $18 million production budget, making the probability of a sequel highly unlikely.
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Answer: I wasn't sure what to make of it, but I got the impression that he was communicating with Alton like he had done when Alton ran from the truck. I also thought his smile was perhaps in reaction to what Alton told him and/or the two were making fun of (mocking) the use of electrodes because they knew the electrodes would not have any effect on him.
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P.S. Plenty of lousy movies have had sequels, so it is possible there could be a "Midnight Special 2".
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Not necessarily holding my breath.
Charles Austin Miller
A sequel doesn't seem likely. Hope you weren't holding your breath waiting for an answer to your question.
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