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* AliensAreBastards: The aliens have enforced a totalitarian regime on Earth and they're rapidly stripping the planet of its resources.
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* AlternateHistory: The film starts in what's an alternate 2018, since the rest was 2027, nine years later.
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* AlternateHistory: The film starts aliens invaded Earth in what's an alternate 2018, since one year before the rest film was 2027, released in RealLife. The bulk of the film takes place nine years later.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Commissioner Igoe is aware that the Legislators are stripping Earth to the bone, and hopes to get off the planet in exchange for his service to them. [[spoiler: He does, but on a prison ship, as a result of how YouHaveFailedMe]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Commissioner Igoe is aware that the Legislators are stripping Earth to the bone, and hopes to get off the planet in exchange for his service to them. [[spoiler: He does, but on a prison ship, as a result of how YouHaveFailedMe]]. [[YouHaveFailedMe disappointing them]].]]
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* CoolOldGuy: Eddie the priest and Rittenhouse the newspaper classified ads editor.
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* SemperFi: Ellison, one of the Resistance leaders, is an ex-Marine and is greeted with a "semper fi" from one of his fellow resistance members, apparently a fellow former marine.
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* BenevolentAlienInvasion: The Legislators make a token effort at making their occupation of Earth look like this, but it's anything but. Anyone sufficiently high up on the chain of command is aware that all the talk of helping humanity is bullshit and that the aliens are actually just pumping Earth dry.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The resistance does not want to be taken alive under any circumstances and will try to kill themselves without hesitation if exposed with no escape routes. Given [[ColdBloodedTorture what happens]] to [[spoiler:Rafe]] after he's arrested, it's not hard to see why.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The resistance does not want to be taken alive under any circumstances and will try to kill themselves without hesitation if exposed with no escape routes. Given [[ColdBloodedTorture what happens]] to [[spoiler:Rafe]] after he's arrested, it's not hard to see why.
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* CoolOldGuy: Eddie the priest and Rittenhouse the newspaper classified ads editor.
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* CoolOldGuy: Eddie BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Jane goes out, courtesy of a police officer's bullet.]]
* BreadAndCircuses: The Unity Rally, some kind of annual public event that seems to be mostly devoted to making humans praise and thank thepriest and Rittenhouse Legislators for their occupation.
* BrickJoke: A very dark one. [[spoiler:True to Gabe's complaints, thenewspaper classified ads editor.gun that Jurgis buys does indeed contribute to him getting captured.]]
* BreadAndCircuses: The Unity Rally, some kind of annual public event that seems to be mostly devoted to making humans praise and thank the
* BrickJoke: A very dark one. [[spoiler:True to Gabe's complaints, the
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** Averted in that Jurgis is shown to have bought a gun early in the movie - Gabriel complains about the money spent on it - and the gun is hidden when the police arrive and never seen again.
* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated a vast majority of politicians around the world - from local levels to global government - have capitulated. The majority of Resistance targets are implied to be these as well.
* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated a vast majority of politicians around the world - from local levels to global government - have capitulated. The majority of Resistance targets are implied to be these as well.
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** Averted in that Jurgis is shown to have bought a gun early in the movie - and Gabriel complains about the money spent on it, not to mention that even owning it - and could get them arrested. Shortly after the gun is hidden when the police arrive and never seen again.
* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated a vast majority of politicians aroundnot used... [[spoiler:until Gabriel tries to use it to protect Jurgis during the world - from local levels crackdown following the stadium bombing, leading to global government - have capitulated. The majority of Resistance targets are implied to be these as well. his capture]].
* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated a vast majority of politicians around
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: The band performance reenactment of FirstContact. It's weird, doesn't seem to mesh with the flashes we saw early in the movie, and simply raises more questions.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: CoolOldGuy: Eddie the priest and Rittenhouse the newspaper classified ads editor.
* CrypticBackgroundReference:
** The band performance reenactment of FirstContact. It's weird, doesn't seem to mesh with the flashes we saw early in the movie, and simply raises morequestions.questions.
** Gabe and Jurgis are planning to flee Chicago by using a boat to cross Lake Michigan. Rula describes the area across the lake as lawless and dangerous, and Jurgis affirms this when justifying his purchase of a gun, but how and why this is the case is never explained.
* CrypticBackgroundReference:
** The band performance reenactment of FirstContact. It's weird, doesn't seem to mesh with the flashes we saw early in the movie, and simply raises more
** Gabe and Jurgis are planning to flee Chicago by using a boat to cross Lake Michigan. Rula describes the area across the lake as lawless and dangerous, and Jurgis affirms this when justifying his purchase of a gun, but how and why this is the case is never explained.
* DrivenToSuicide: After the resistance is exposed, most of their ringleaders commit suicide to avoid capture.
* EnforcedTechnologyLevels: The internet has been shut down and many other modern luxuries have been stripped away, all in the name of enforcing the peace, leaving humanity at a roughly 80s level of technology.
* EnforcedTechnologyLevels: The internet has been shut down and many other modern luxuries have been stripped away, all in the name of enforcing the peace, leaving humanity at a roughly 80s level of technology.
* FascistButInefficient: Thanks in part to their way of doing things, the Legislators and their human quislings end up incompetently letting a rebel group fester right under their noses, to a point that [[spoiler:one of Chicago's top-ranking police enforcers is a mole for the resistance and the rest of the police leadership [[EpicFail blabbed state secrets to a prostitute who turned out to be the leader of the insurgents]].]]
* FantasticSlur: Humans sometimes refer to the Legislators as "roaches", though not to their faces for fairly obvious reasons.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Anyone who isn't killed for breaking the law is sent to an off-world prison. What little is hinted about it implies that death is very much preferable.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The Trojan Horse painting on Jane Doe's wall. [[spoiler:Which hints at [[TheMole the actual plan]] of the resistance.]]
** While the cops are investigating the brothel, Mulligan lies and claims he's never been there before, seemingly covering his ass preemptively. [[spoiler:He is, [[TheMole but not in the way you'd think]].]]
* FantasticSlur: Humans sometimes refer to the Legislators as "roaches", though not to their faces for fairly obvious reasons.
* AFateWorseThanDeath: Anyone who isn't killed for breaking the law is sent to an off-world prison. What little is hinted about it implies that death is very much preferable.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The Trojan Horse painting on Jane Doe's wall. [[spoiler:Which hints at [[TheMole the actual plan]] of the resistance.]]
** While the cops are investigating the brothel, Mulligan lies and claims he's never been there before, seemingly covering his ass preemptively. [[spoiler:He is, [[TheMole but not in the way you'd think]].]]
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* InscrutableAliens: There's never really any explanation for why the Legislators are conquering Earth beyond implied colonialist/imperialist motives. A lot of their behavior in general that we see is left unexplained; we never get a translation of their language when we hear it nor any scenes from their perspective, just descriptions of what they're doing from their human minions and implications of what they're doing that can be discerned from the few times we see them directly.
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* InscrutableAliens: There's never really any explanation for why the Legislators are conquering Earth beyond implied colonialist/imperialist motives. A lot of their behavior in general that we see is left unexplained; we never get a translation of their language when we hear it aside from Mulligan's decommissioning near the end, nor do we get any scenes from their perspective, just descriptions of what they're doing from their human minions and implications of what they're doing that can be discerned from the few times we see them directly.
* LesCollaborateurs: It's stated a vast majority of politicians around the world - from local levels to global government - have capitulated. The majority of Resistance targets are such individuals.
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* SemperFi: Ellison, one of the Resistance leaders, is an ex-Marine.
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* PlanetLooters: What the Legislators are seemingly conquering Earth for; to strip it of it's resources for their own use. Rafe claims that within a few years, they'll have drained everything.
* TheQuisling: Many of the surviving human leadership are collaborators serving the Legislators in hopes of having a seat on the lifeboat when the aliens inevitably strip Earth of all resources and pull out. Commissioner Igoe in particular plainly states to Mulligan that he's only on the police force in hopes of getting off Earth.
* RetroUniverse: Despite being set in 2027, the vibe is definitely more 70s or 80s in terms of aesthetics and technology. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the nature of the alien occupation; see EnforcedTechnologyLevels.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The resistance's methods mostly entail carrying out a brutal bombing campaign on any collaborators with the alien regime. Their plan in the film involves planting a bomb on Chicago's mayor and blowing up him, his administration, and a delegation of alien diplomats at a public rally attended by thousands of people.
* SecondHandStorytelling: A lot of the backstory and worldbuilding is more hinted implied through concise dialogue and visual hints than actually stated or shown.
* SemperFi: Ellison, one of the Resistance leaders, is anex-Marine.ex-Marine and is greeted with a "semper fi" from one of his fellow resistance members, apparently a fellow former marine.
* TheQuisling: Many of the surviving human leadership are collaborators serving the Legislators in hopes of having a seat on the lifeboat when the aliens inevitably strip Earth of all resources and pull out. Commissioner Igoe in particular plainly states to Mulligan that he's only on the police force in hopes of getting off Earth.
* RetroUniverse: Despite being set in 2027, the vibe is definitely more 70s or 80s in terms of aesthetics and technology. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the nature of the alien occupation; see EnforcedTechnologyLevels.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The resistance's methods mostly entail carrying out a brutal bombing campaign on any collaborators with the alien regime. Their plan in the film involves planting a bomb on Chicago's mayor and blowing up him, his administration, and a delegation of alien diplomats at a public rally attended by thousands of people.
* SecondHandStorytelling: A lot of the backstory and worldbuilding is more hinted implied through concise dialogue and visual hints than actually stated or shown.
* SemperFi: Ellison, one of the Resistance leaders, is an
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* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Jane baits the cops into shooting her by having her gun on hand when they breach her room. The cops don't find out until after they've blown her brains out that the gun was empty and [[ThanatosGambit she wanted to get killed]].]]
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* SuicidePill: The resistance members who carry out the stadium bombing carry cyanide pills with them as they do to avoid being taken alive. [[spoiler:Daniel kills himself with his when cornered. Anita settles for the more immediate death of getting an alien hunter to shoot her. Rafe tries to take his pill, but is shot and wounded by Mulligan before he can.]]
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Mulligan's part in the big plan is getting promoted high enough to be granted a meeting with the Legislators, then carry a bomb with him to said meeting. He knows he will die doing this and doesn't care. Nor do the majority of resistance members, who are mostly aware that the plan requires their deaths in some way or form.]]
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Mulligan's part in the big plan is getting promoted high enough to be granted a meeting with the Legislators, then carry a bomb with him to said meeting. He knows he will die doing this and doesn't care. Nor do the majority of resistance members, who are mostly aware that the plan requires their deaths in some way or form.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with [[spoiler: Mulligan revealed to be a mole in the collaborationist government and launching a suicide attack on the aliens, while Gabriel is implied to aid the Resistance. It's also shown that the Resistance extends across the US (and likely the world), with a montage of attacks and protests seen.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: The film ends with [[spoiler: Mulligan [[spoiler:Mulligan revealed to be a mole in the collaborationist government and launching a suicide attack on the aliens, while Gabriel is implied to aid the Resistance. It's also shown that the Resistance extends across the US (and likely the world), with a montage of attacks and protests seen.]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Commissioner Igoe is aware that the Legislators are stripping Earth to the bone, and hopes to get off the planet in exchange for his service to them [[spoiler: He does, but on a prison ship, as a result of how YouHaveFailedMe]].
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:The resistance's plan involves manipulating the Legislators and their human police state into doing things based off their general behavior, such as the way that [[YouHaveFailedMe they punish failure severely]] and reward success through promotions. They also gamble that Gabe will sell them out to save Rafe's life, which he does.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Commissioner Igoe is aware that the Legislators are stripping Earth to the bone, and hopes to get off the planet in exchange for his service tothem them. [[spoiler: He does, but on a prison ship, as a result of how YouHaveFailedMe]].
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Commissioner Igoe is aware that the Legislators are stripping Earth to the bone, and hopes to get off the planet in exchange for his service to
* ConnectedAllAlong: The three main characters initially seem unrelated to one another. [[spoiler:In truth, Mulligan and Jane are friends of Gabe's parents, and its implied their knowledge of him was a major part in their plans, such as knowing he would give up the resistance to save his brother.]]
* EvilColonialist: The Legislators, an imperialistic alien force that has invaded and occupied Earth and are stripping it of all its resources.
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jane Doe allows herself to be uncovered and killed as the leader of the Resistance Cell in Chicago, so her partner will take the credit. He's thus promoted and given direct access with the aliens, permitting him to launch a suicide attack on them.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Jane [[spoiler:Jane Doe allows herself to be uncovered and killed as the leader of the Resistance Cell in Chicago, so her partner will take the credit. He's thus promoted and given direct access with the aliens, permitting him to launch a suicide attack on them.]]
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* IllegalReligion: Public religious displays are banned, as shown in background references such as a sign saying that praying and congregating is prohibited. This sets up a switch when one of the resistance members tells another to take something off because "you might as well wear a target". The obvious choice is the bandage covering where her tracker was, but it's the cross necklace she's wearing. It also helps explain just how many people oppose the aliens' occupation, since this would alienate the majority.
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* IllegalReligion: Public religious displays are banned, as shown in background references such as a sign saying that praying and congregating is prohibited. This sets up a switch when one of the resistance members tells another to take something off because "you might as well wear a target". The obvious choice is the bandage covering where her tracker was, but it's the cross necklace she's wearing. It We also hear a rendition of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" with the lyrics edited to remove any religious references. It helps explain just how many people oppose the aliens' occupation, since this would alienate the majority.
* InscrutableAliens: There's never really any explanation for why the Legislators are conquering Earth beyond implied colonialist/imperialist motives. A lot of their behavior in general that we see is left unexplained; we never get a translation of their language when we hear it nor any scenes from their perspective, just descriptions of what they're doing from their human minions and implications of what they're doing that can be discerned from the few times we see them directly.
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* LaResistance: Rafe is a member of a resistance cell called "Phoenix" that opposes the Legislators. [[spoiler: It's later shown there's a national network in the US which they're a part of.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Mulligan]] turns out to be one in the government for the Resistance.
** And Phoenix's plan is [[spoiler:a ThanatosGambit to let him take credit for wiping them all out. This gets him promoted to the new Commissioner, earning him a face-to-face meeting with the Legislators, and so an opportunity to bring them a bomb.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Mulligan]] turns out to be one in the government for the Resistance.
** And Phoenix's plan is [[spoiler:a ThanatosGambit to let him take credit for wiping them all out. This gets him promoted to the new Commissioner, earning him a face-to-face meeting with the Legislators, and so an opportunity to bring them a bomb.]]
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* LaResistance: Rafe is a member of a resistance cell called "Phoenix" that opposes the Legislators. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's later shown there's a national network in the US which they're a part of.]]
* LudicrousGibs: The results of the Legislator's primary weapons, which basically vaporize anything they hit.
* MeaningfulName: Mulligan. [[spoiler:A Mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. The ThanatosGambit of the Phoenix Resistance involves the cell being seemingly slaughtered, getting Mulligan into the position necessary to make a strike against the aliens.]]
* {{Minimalism}}: There is a plot but the focus is very much on a slice-of-life depiction of a world under alien occupation, with the larger world and its history more hinted at than actually described.
* TheMole:[[spoiler: Mulligan]] [[spoiler:Mulligan]] turns out to be one in the government for the Resistance.
** And Phoenix'sResistance. Their plan is [[spoiler:a ThanatosGambit to let him take credit for wiping them all out. This gets him promoted to the new Commissioner, earning him a face-to-face meeting with the Legislators, and so an opportunity to bring them a bomb.]]
* LudicrousGibs: The results of the Legislator's primary weapons, which basically vaporize anything they hit.
* MeaningfulName: Mulligan. [[spoiler:A Mulligan is a second chance to perform an action, usually after the first chance went wrong through bad luck or a blunder. The ThanatosGambit of the Phoenix Resistance involves the cell being seemingly slaughtered, getting Mulligan into the position necessary to make a strike against the aliens.]]
* {{Minimalism}}: There is a plot but the focus is very much on a slice-of-life depiction of a world under alien occupation, with the larger world and its history more hinted at than actually described.
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** And Phoenix's
* ShowDontTell: A big fan of it. Most of the film's worldbuilding and characterization is more implied than said outright, conveyed through environmental storytelling and concise dialogue rather than direct exposition.
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* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: Mulligan launches one on the aliens in Chicago at the end, destroying their colony and setting off revolts around the globe.]]
* SuicideBySea: Implied to be the fate of [[spoiler: Raul the truck driver]] after the remaining Resistance leaders are exposed.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The various ads for the film included shots of [[spoiler: Mulligan]] wearing the gas-mask setup, showing that he was going to be visiting the alien headquarters before the movie was over.
* SuicideBySea: Implied to be the fate of [[spoiler: Raul the truck driver]] after the remaining Resistance leaders are exposed.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The various ads for the film included shots of [[spoiler: Mulligan]] wearing the gas-mask setup, showing that he was going to be visiting the alien headquarters before the movie was over.
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* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler: Mulligan [[spoiler:Mulligan launches one on the aliens in Chicago at the end, destroying their colony and setting off revolts around the globe.]]
* SuicideBySea: Implied to be the fate of[[spoiler: Raul [[spoiler:Raul the truck driver]] after the remaining Resistance leaders are exposed.
* TrackingDevice: Humans are required to receive tracking implants in the form of [[OrganicTechnology insect-like creatures surgically placed into their bodies]]. The resistance has developed a way of removing it, but it's dangerous and not all the subjects survive.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The various ads for the film included shots of[[spoiler: Mulligan]] [[spoiler:Mulligan]] wearing the gas-mask setup, showing that he was going to be visiting the alien headquarters before the movie was over.over.
* TrojanHorse: The trope namer is alluded to through the ArcWords "beware a Greek bearing gifts", [[spoiler:foreshadowing the resistance's plan for striking the aliens by getting a mole into their base after he's been laced with explosives.]]
* SuicideBySea: Implied to be the fate of
* TrackingDevice: Humans are required to receive tracking implants in the form of [[OrganicTechnology insect-like creatures surgically placed into their bodies]]. The resistance has developed a way of removing it, but it's dangerous and not all the subjects survive.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The various ads for the film included shots of
* TrojanHorse: The trope namer is alluded to through the ArcWords "beware a Greek bearing gifts", [[spoiler:foreshadowing the resistance's plan for striking the aliens by getting a mole into their base after he's been laced with explosives.]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: What if the plan was to fail?]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated, [[spoiler: which is one hint that it isn’t really]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated, [[spoiler: which is one hint that it isn’t really]].
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: What [[spoiler:"What if the plan was to fail?]].
fail?"]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated,[[spoiler: which [[spoiler:which is one hint that it isn’t really]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: A few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated,
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* [[spoiler:HiredToHuntHimself: Mulligan is in charge of hunting down Phoenix, of which he is one of the two leaders.]]
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* [[spoiler:HiredToHuntHimself: Mulligan HiredToHuntHimself: [[spoiler:Mulligan is in charge of hunting down Phoenix, of which he is one of the two leaders.]]
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* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The strange rock-like spaceships that transfer people off-planet are very blimp-like.
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* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: The strange rock-like spaceships that transfer people off-planet are very blimp-like.blimp-like.
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[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture The year is 2027, 2027]], nine years after an alien invasion that has made Earth into a vassal planet ruled by mysterious "legislators." Rarely seen, they have co-opted existing human institutions (police forces, municipal governments, etc.) to run daily life as they see fit.
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** And Phoenix's plan is [[spoiler:a ThanatosGambit to let him take credit for wiping them all out. This gets him promoted to the new Commissioner, earning him a face-to-face meeting with the Legislators, and so an opportunity to bring them a bomb.]]
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: There's surprisingly little exposition, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a large cast]], and a lot of unanswered questions.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: There's surprisingly little exposition, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a large cast]], cast, and a lot of unanswered questions.
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* OminousMundanity: The aliens that defeated and subjugated humanity are known only as the "Legislators".
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** "Beware Greeks bearing gifts." The quote refers to the story of the TrojanHorse, [[spoiler:which is what Mulligan [[ReverseMole turns out to be.]]]]
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** "Beware Greeks bearing gifts." The quote refers to the story of the TrojanHorse, [[spoiler:which is what Mulligan [[ReverseMole [[TheMole turns out to be.]]]]
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** "Beware Greeks bearing gifts." The quote refers to the story of the TrojanHorse, [[spoiler:which is what Mulligan [[ReverseMole turns out to be.]]]]
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* ArcWords: "Beware Greeks bearing gifts." said by Jane Doe and Mulligan. [[spoiler:Mulligan turns out to [[TrojanHorse be a Resistance spy all along, waiting until he was promoted high enough to access and destroy the Closed Zone.]]
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* ArcWords: "Beware Greeks bearing gifts." said by Jane Doe and Mulligan. [[spoiler:Mulligan turns out to [[TrojanHorse be a Resistance spy all along, waiting until he was promoted high enough to access and destroy the Closed Zone.]]]]]]
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* IllegalReligion: Christianity, in background references such as a sign saying that praying and congregating is prohibited.
** Sets up a switch when one of the resistance members tells another to take something off because "you might as well wear a target". The obvious choice is the bandage covering where her tracker was, but it's the cross necklace she's wearing.
** Sets up a switch when one of the resistance members tells another to take something off because "you might as well wear a target". The obvious choice is the bandage covering where her tracker was, but it's the cross necklace she's wearing.
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* IllegalReligion: Christianity, Public religious displays are banned, as shown in background references such as a sign saying that praying and congregating is prohibited.
** Setsprohibited. This sets up a switch when one of the resistance members tells another to take something off because "you might as well wear a target". The obvious choice is the bandage covering where her tracker was, but it's the cross necklace she's wearing. It also helps explain just how many people oppose the aliens' occupation, since this would alienate the majority.
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** Sets up a switch when one of the resistance members tells another to take something off because "you might as well wear a target". The obvious choice is the bandage covering where her tracker was, but it's the cross necklace she's wearing.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: The band performance reenactment of FirstContact. It's weird, doesn't seem to mesh with the flashes we saw early in the movie, and simply raises more questions.
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* AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler:The prostitute]] turns out to be the resistance leader. [[spoiler:What's more, prior to the invasion, she was just a school teacher.]]
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* AlmightyJanitor: AlmightyJanitor:
** [[spoiler:The prostitute]] turns out to be the resistance leader. [[spoiler:What's more, prior to the invasion, she was just a school teacher.]]
** [[spoiler:The prostitute]] turns out to be the resistance leader. [[spoiler:What's more, prior to the invasion, she was just a school teacher.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Tons. The computer teletype, the print on the wall, the record player, the Blackberry, etc.
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** Tons. The computer teletype, the print on the wall, the record player, the Blackberry, etc.
** Tons. The computer teletype, the print on the wall, the record player, the Blackberry, etc.
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* VoiceOfTheResistance: Downplayed, with the local DJ and the classified editor at the newspaper knowing not to publicly and obviously declare for the resistance, but delivering coded messages through classified adds and songs on the radio.
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** Averted in that Jurgis is shown to have bought a gun early in the movie - Gabriel complains about the money spent on it - and the gun is hidden when the police arrive and never seen again.
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In UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, a factory worker (Ashton Sanders), (Creator/AshtonSanders), a cop (Creator/JohnGoodman), a prostitute (Creator/VeraFarmiga), and assorted others try to get by amid the constant surveillance, paranoia, and brutality of the alien occupation. There was a [[LaResistance resistance]], once, but now it's extinct. Maybe.
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* SuicideBySea: Implied to be the fate of [[spoiler: Raul the truck driver]]. after the remaining Resistance leaders are exposed.
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* SemperFi: Ellison, one of the Resistance leaders, is an ex-marine.
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* ViewersAreGeniuses: Surprisingly little exposition, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a large cast]], and a lot of unanswered questions.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: a few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated, [[spoiler: which is one hint that it isn’t really]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: a A few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated, [[spoiler: which is one hint that it isn’t really]].
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Commissioner Igoe is aware that the Legislators are stripping Earth to the bone, and hopes to get off the planet in exchange for his service to them [[spoiler: He does, but on a prison ship, as a result of how YouHaveFailedMe]].
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** Harrison Ma, the SoleSurvivingScientist of the resistance, who found a way to take out the trackers, never finished medical school due to the invasion.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: What if the plan was to fail?]].
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: a few rebels, including the DJ, aren’t seen on TheBigBoard after the resistance cell is apparently eradicated, [[spoiler: which is one hint that it isn’t really]].
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The various ads for the film included shots of [[spoiler: Mulligan]] wearing the gas-mask setup, showing that he was going to be visiting the alien headquarters before the movie was over.
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* AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler: The prostitute]] turns out to be the resistance leader.
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* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: The Resistance Cell in Chicago. For starters, the mission we see carried out by the Cell are partially made of a Goth cross-dresser who's implied to be a prostitute, a {{butch lesbian}} mechanic, a deeply religious ex-priest, and an ex-Marine. Rafe's partner is a low-class bum.
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* ArmyOfThievesAndWhores: The Resistance Cell in Chicago. For starters, the mission we see carried out by the Cell are partially made of a Goth cross-dresser who's implied to be a prostitute, a {{butch lesbian}} mechanic, a deeply religious ex-priest, and an ex-Marine. Rafe's partner is a low-class bum.low-class, trashy [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy wigger]].
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* VichyEarth: Aliens known only as the Legislators have conquered Earth and are forcing the humans to mine for resources.
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* VichyEarth: Aliens known only as It's stated the hostilities from the Legislators have conquered Earth and landing quickly ceased after the invading aliens were able to negotiate some kind of deal. Nearly all governments are forcing cooperating with the humans aliens, now, with Chicago's mayoral system mostly in service to mine for resources.alien interests.
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* NothingIsScarier: The Legislators' underground headquarters. All we know is that getting there involves a decon shower, a breathing mask, a lonely walk along a narrow gantry, and being strapped into a tiny rocket-powered capsule that then plunges into the depths. The only concrete description we get is something along the lines of 'you won't believe what's going down there'.
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* NothingIsScarier: The Legislators' underground headquarters. All we know is that getting there involves a decon shower, a breathing mask, a lonely walk along a narrow gantry, and being strapped into a tiny rocket-powered capsule that then plunges into the depths. The only concrete description we get is something along the lines of 'you won't believe what's going on down there'.
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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Despite the Resistance Cell's elimination, it turns out the cop spearheading the anti-Resistance operation is, in fact, a Resistance member, and suicide bombs the Legislator colony underneath Chicago, triggering widespread rebellion across the Earth.]]
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* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Despite the Resistance Cell's cell's elimination, it turns out the cop spearheading the anti-Resistance operation is, in fact, a Resistance member, and suicide bombs the Legislator colony underneath Chicago, triggering widespread rebellion across the Earth.]]
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** A police commander forces a man he knew as a kid - Gabe - to be a patsy against the Resistance, ranging from bugging his apartment personally to targeting his [[spoiler:still-alive brother with imprisonment and torture, forcing Gabe to cooperate and reveal the Cell leaders]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:this was the exact plan - by Gabe cracking and revealing the Cell leaders, the commander is credited with taking down the Resistance AND is instated as the newest Commissioner.]] It's also heavily implied [[spoiler:that the Cell leaders were relying on this betrayal.]]
** Government personnel are allowed to visit the Legislator colonies. [[spoiler:With his new rank, the commander's able to enter the colony... strapped with enough plastic explosive to nuke it.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: After the Police Commissioner is revealed to have passed classified intelligence to the Resistance Cell leader unwittingly, he's next seen along with Rafe and other prisoners who are being deported offworld.
** A police commander forces a man he knew as a kid - Gabe - to be a patsy against the Resistance, ranging from bugging his apartment personally to targeting his [[spoiler:still-alive brother with imprisonment and torture, forcing Gabe to cooperate and reveal the Cell leaders]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:this was the exact plan - by Gabe cracking and revealing the Cell leaders, the commander is credited with taking down the Resistance AND is instated as the newest Commissioner.]] It's also heavily implied [[spoiler:that the Cell leaders were relying on this betrayal.]]
** Government personnel are allowed to visit the Legislator colonies. [[spoiler:With his new rank, the commander's able to enter the colony... strapped with enough plastic explosive to nuke it.]]
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** The Resistance Leader [[spoiler:is a prostitute in the ghettos of Chicago. Not only are the ghettos less watched, but multiple government personnel are her Johns johns - they don't suspect a thing from a mere sex worker, and see nothing wrong in telling her bits of what they do - enough for her to formulate plans to strike specific targets and alien infrastructure and discredit the Police Commissioner...]]
** A police commander forces a man he knew as a kid - Gabe - to be a patsy against the Resistance, ranging from bugging his apartment personally to targeting his [[spoiler:still-alive brother with imprisonment and torture, forcing Gabe to cooperate and reveal theCell cell leaders]]. As it turns out, [[spoiler:this was the exact plan - by Gabe cracking and revealing the Cell cell leaders, the commander is credited with taking down the Resistance AND is instated as the newest Commissioner.]] It's also heavily implied [[spoiler:that the Cell cell leaders were relying on this betrayal.]]
** Government personnel are allowed to visit the Legislator colonies. [[spoiler:With his new rank, the commander's able to enter the colony... strapped with enough plastic explosive tonuke destroy it.]]
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''Captive State'' is a 2019 science fiction drama directed by Creator/RupertWyatt about life under alien rule.
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''Captive State'' is a 2019 science fiction drama directed by Creator/RupertWyatt about life under alien rule.
