Man I love movies that make me think. Not a fan of this one, though. Here is how I interpreted it;
The aliens are the memories of the people around her, coming back to haunt her as she suppressed her guilt. She has been avoiding her own emotions so long that all of them "became aliens" to her.
She kills the first alien that she encounters the way she killed her best friend. I think the other aliens that came after the first kill represent the other poeple who found out what happened.
The second alien looks for her, and finds her hiding under a table, holding a photograph of her and her best friend. In the past, someone (possibly her mother) understood that something was wrong, and asked her what happened; to which she replied by running away crying. Maybe she even confessed, not sure. She didn't kill this alien - their relationship did not end; and in reality her mother never "abandoned" her till she died.
Then there comes a small alien, possibly representing her best friend's little bborther (that she danced with at the end), attacking her. This might mean that the truth was out in the families and she was getting some hate now. She kills this one - meaning she cut the cords with him, well we obviously see that in the first quarter.
Then there comes a giant alien, who controls a spaceship by making gestures; possibly the cop-dad. Or someone in control. She burns it in a car - cords cut.
The alien that came after that, was checking out her old room, looking like it was trying to understand her. I bet it was a lawyer or something, trying to "put words into her mouth", under the "lights of authority". It could be her own mother too though, not sure. Because only she was understanding towards her.
I believe they were trying to make her loog good in court, or under arrest. When she ripped the little alien creature out of her throat, it was the moment she said "these are all lies, I'm not innocent" or something. When the spaceship shone its light on the ground, they only saw the "new Brynn" inside the little creature; "the authority" only saw "the mellowed plea" and the fake profile of hers that her alien lawyer created. But then she goes on and "kills" this "false profile", choosing to be truthful and rejecting to "act like it's all okay, nothing happened", because doing so hurt her (like a knife to guts). The fake her actually represents the version of her that "looks" innocent, potentially acceptable and loveable by her town - which she would really like; so she puts her down gently, hugging her.
So she finally gets caught and lifted up by the spaceship (probably the police, court etc), but seeing that she was young and regretful, they "let her go". The twist is, she is actually going through a healing process of forgiving herself while all these alien invasion stuff happens, as all these "alien" memories come back to her.
And now it doesn't matter if the town likes her or not; in her head, she is dancing with the whole town (her little version, with Turkish carpets on the streets and all). Because she forgave herself, and now she can be happy, and not anxious all the time because of guilt.
So yeah, I think the whole movie is a metaphor for "accepting, forgiving and moving on" process; and it all happens in her head.
The aliens are the memories of the people around her, coming back to haunt her as she suppressed her guilt. She has been avoiding her own emotions so long that all of them "became aliens" to her.
She kills the first alien that she encounters the way she killed her best friend. I think the other aliens that came after the first kill represent the other poeple who found out what happened.
The second alien looks for her, and finds her hiding under a table, holding a photograph of her and her best friend. In the past, someone (possibly her mother) understood that something was wrong, and asked her what happened; to which she replied by running away crying. Maybe she even confessed, not sure. She didn't kill this alien - their relationship did not end; and in reality her mother never "abandoned" her till she died.
Then there comes a small alien, possibly representing her best friend's little bborther (that she danced with at the end), attacking her. This might mean that the truth was out in the families and she was getting some hate now. She kills this one - meaning she cut the cords with him, well we obviously see that in the first quarter.
Then there comes a giant alien, who controls a spaceship by making gestures; possibly the cop-dad. Or someone in control. She burns it in a car - cords cut.
The alien that came after that, was checking out her old room, looking like it was trying to understand her. I bet it was a lawyer or something, trying to "put words into her mouth", under the "lights of authority". It could be her own mother too though, not sure. Because only she was understanding towards her.
I believe they were trying to make her loog good in court, or under arrest. When she ripped the little alien creature out of her throat, it was the moment she said "these are all lies, I'm not innocent" or something. When the spaceship shone its light on the ground, they only saw the "new Brynn" inside the little creature; "the authority" only saw "the mellowed plea" and the fake profile of hers that her alien lawyer created. But then she goes on and "kills" this "false profile", choosing to be truthful and rejecting to "act like it's all okay, nothing happened", because doing so hurt her (like a knife to guts). The fake her actually represents the version of her that "looks" innocent, potentially acceptable and loveable by her town - which she would really like; so she puts her down gently, hugging her.
So she finally gets caught and lifted up by the spaceship (probably the police, court etc), but seeing that she was young and regretful, they "let her go". The twist is, she is actually going through a healing process of forgiving herself while all these alien invasion stuff happens, as all these "alien" memories come back to her.
And now it doesn't matter if the town likes her or not; in her head, she is dancing with the whole town (her little version, with Turkish carpets on the streets and all). Because she forgave herself, and now she can be happy, and not anxious all the time because of guilt.
So yeah, I think the whole movie is a metaphor for "accepting, forgiving and moving on" process; and it all happens in her head.
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