Continuity mistake: Near the end of the film, Jack helps Julia into the stasis module, and the bombs are visible by her feet. If she was switched to another module, so that the bombs were still inside but she remained on Earth, she would have woken up in the process.
Oblivion (2013)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough
There are drone repair stations set up all over Earth, all manned by exact copies of Jack and Victoria. The Tet orbiting in space is in fact an alien craft that programmed the drones to kill all surviving humans on the planet. The Jack and Victoria clones were made when the aliens abducted the real Jack and Victoria years before invading the planet. Julia was ejected from the shuttle Jack was on moments before the aliens took him.
The Jack in the movie is about is one such clone. Jack, Julia and Beech plan to reprogram a drone to fly a nuke into the Tet, but the drone is destroyed in an attack on the human base, leaving them with no choice but to have Jack fly it up himself. Julia goes with him, but Jack puts her in cryo sleep and drops her off on his secret cabin on Earth and goes up to the Tet with Beech in her place. They detonate the nuke and destroy the Tet, disabling all the drones on Earth. Years later, Julia is at the cabin with her and Jack's daughter and one of the Jack clones arrives at the cabin. (Earlier in the movie, Jack encountered one of his clones who had memories of Julia and knocked him out).
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Suggested correction: There's no evidence that she would have woken up. We don't have enough information about the statis process or its effects on the person once the pod is open to determine if she would have woken up during this time.
Suggested correction: My question is, where is this new stasis module from? It's a 60 year old special equipment on a spaceship to Titan. For that reason it is unlikely that these stasis modules are numerous on earth and in the hand of the scavengers. All other populated pods are destroyed by the drones. May be there are two more empty stasis modules for Jack and Vika on the jettisoned space vehicle? OK, that could be.
Jack Harper: How can man die better: than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods.
Sally: I created you, Jack. I am your god.
Jack Harper: Fuck you, Sally.
Trivia: At the start when the UNIVERSAL writing comes around the Earth, the TET can be seen in orbit.
Question: Maybe this was explained in the film and I missed it, but it has been bugging me for a while. What happened to all the rest of the clones of Jack and Victoria after the Tet was destroyed? Presumably their daily instructions in the form of Sally would cease. Wouldn't they get suspicious? Some reasonable explanation would be nice.
Answer: They would obviously notice that the Tet was gone and would no doubt have questions, but, without outside intervention, would be unlikely to be able to do anything about it, as they would have no reason not to believe that the "radiation zones" confining them to their particular area weren't real. Some would likely die fighting Scavenger groups in their areas (without the drones, they'd be increasingly vulnerable), others might be successfully contacted by those groups and thus could join with them, some may have ultimately starved without resupply from the Tet. The film only covers what happens to Jacks 49 and 52; the others likely met with a variety of different fates.
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