Hey what's up guys
Today I'll show you a science fiction horror film: "The Girl with All the Gifts"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with Melanie counting how long she can hold her breath
In the middle of her counting,
she hears the loud alarm of the sergeant knocking on the doors and telling them to transit
Melanie knows the drill
She wears her orange uniform, and sits on the provided wheelchair with straps on it
Melanie's bedroom door opens, and soldiers enter while pointing their rifles at her
Melanie greets them despite the aggressive treatment
The soldier approaches Melanie, strapping her head and ankle,
and cuffing her wrist onto the wheelchair
The soldier pushes Melanie's wheelchair,
and joins in line with the other children strapped on a wheelchair
The line travels into a classroom for class
Doctor Selkirk enters to substitute for a while,
and asks the children about the Periodic Table basics
Melanie is knowledgeable about it, yet somehow Selkirk doesn't show care at all
Amidst the recitation, the educator shows up in class to take over
Melanie smiles at her appearance and greets her
The educator warmly smiles and returns a greet
Selkirk leaves the classroom to the educator and exits the room
Melanie asks for a story, and the other children support her
But the educator reasons someone may snitch on her for telling a story
However, Melanie says to continue a story about Greek Myths because it will count as history
So the educator obliges and asks if anyone remembers the story last time
Melanie answers, "Prometheus and Epimetheus"
The educator thanks Melanie and continues to tell the tale
The educator narrates Pandora's box, where all the evils are unleashed due to curiosity
She mentions finding hope at the bottom of the box
The story parallels with Melanie that despite the apocalyptic event in the world,
she still finds hope through naivety
Meanwhile, the militaries return the children to their rooms
Afterward, the militaries deliver a bowl of living worms in each room, including Melanie's
She scoops them up, indulging herself until she falls asleep
She counts while holding her breath once she returns to consciousness
Outside, the scientist walks to Melanie's room, and asks if she has solved the logic problem
Melanie answers it, and the scientist commends her thinking
The scientist asks another problem
"There's a cat in a box
It could be alive, or it could be dead
Fifty-fifty
How would you find out?"
Exceptional Melanie answers, "to open the box and look inside"
But the scientist says she's not allowed to do anything to the box
Melanie then decides to wait before answering
Then the scientist writes Melanie's response as "Exquisite mimicry of observed behaviors?"
After the little quiz, the scientist lets Melanie pick a number between one to twenty,
and Melanie decides 13
The following day, the sergeant once again alarms the halls with his loud shouts
While the soldier pushes Melanie on the wheelchair, she notices Kenny's room 13 is occupied
Then in class, Melanie finds Kenny's spot vacant
Melanie tries to listen to the educator's storytelling; but Kenny's absence distracts her
The educator diverts the class from Kenny's absence, and lets the children write their own stories
While the other children find it challenging to write one,
Melanie manages to write a short story in a short period
Outside, soldiers criticize the educator with disgust,
because of her capability to withstand being with the children
Melanie tells the class her short story, making the educator teary
The educator approaches Melanie to pat her head
Yet the sergeant barges in, shouting at the educator for violating the rules
The rule is the people in the base can't directly touch the children
The sergeant asks the educator to watch him
He spits on his arm, and lets a child on the front smell it
The educator begs him to stop; but the sergeant insists
The child's nose starts to twitch, and his jaw moves
Then suddenly, he starts biting the air nonstop, needing to grab the sergeant's spitted arm
The back row children begin to change as well, trying to reach for the sergeant
The children are not humans, but rather hybrids between Hungry and humans
They're attracted to smell, and can trigger their instincts as Hungry,
a mindless zombie-like creature
The sergeant stops his demonstration
He applies Blocker gel on his arm, and tells the educator to end the class
The militaries bring back the children to their assigned rooms
The educator visits Melanie
Through the small window of the door, the educator sees Melanie still strapped in the wheelchair
She knows that the sergeant did this to Melanie
So she enters to remove Melanie's locks
While pulling her straps, Melanie smells the educator's scent
Melanie attempts to control her urge to turn, and warns the educator to leave
Luckily, Melanie's left foot remains strapped;
and the educator manages to rush outside, locking the door
The educator tearfully apologizes while applying Blocker to her face
The educator hears Melanie growling; and she feels horrible
Meanwhile, the scientist finds a left-behind Blocker on the floor beside Melanie's door
She knows someone visited Melanie because they give Blocker in ratio
The scientist asks for another number; and Melanie says four
In shock, The scientist asks if Melanie's sure; and Melanie agrees
The following day, the sergeant fetches Melanie from room #4, to bring her to the operating lab
While traveling, Melanie sees the military base and field
Mindless Hungries are trying to infiltrate behind the fences
Then, a soldier reports to the sergeant that one barrier is down at the south section;
and the sergeant says to use a flamethrower
More soldiers rush to the fences to defend the base
As for Melanie, she's left in the laboratory room with the scientist and Selkirk
On the shelf, Melanie finds a brain in a jar with growing fungus labeled "#13"
Melanie greets the scientist and Selkirk
Then she answers that the cat in the box is clever, so it's not there
But the scientist explains it's an analogy for Melanie
to understand that the cat is either dead or alive,
like Melanie, who's in between dead or living
Selkirk sedates Melanie; and she and the scientist strap Melanie to the operating table
But suddenly, the educator barges in, takes the fire distinguisher,
and argues she can't be part of another experiment procedure
She destroys the ringing telephone, and wants them to stop cutting open the children
But the scientist rephrases it as, "They represent as children,"
and asks the educator to drop her weapon
When the educator disarms herself, the scientist uses pepper spray on her
Selkirk calls security, and soldiers arrive to retrieve the educator
Before they leave, the scientist explains,
"Melanie is the main ingredient to create a test batch of a vaccine"
The soldiers leave with the educator when suddenly a siren horning alarms the whole base
The scientist insists on proceeding with the experiment, and commands Selkirk to drop the shutter
Selkirk drops the shutter near a glass window
The shutter is almost down when suddenly Hungries breaks the window and bites her
The scientist attacks the Hungries with a glass shard; but it cuts her hand
In the room, Selkirk becomes Hungry, so the scientist flees the room
Hungry Selkirk can't attack her kind, which is Melanie who's strapped to the operating table
Melanie frees herself and goes outside the field
Hungries overrun the base, devouring the soldiers' flesh
On the field, Melanie hears the educator calling her
But a soldier knocks her out in the head
So Melanie bolts to them, and bites the soldier and the other soldier
Afterward, she feels sleepy and lies down
The educator who regains consciousness, carries Melanie
While carrying Melanie, the educator boards an armored truck escaping the base
The sergeant drives the truck; while a soldier fires a rifle onto the Hungries from the roof
Besides the soldiers, the scientist is inside as well
They flee from the base and stop at a barren
The sergeant commands the soldier to send coordinates to the Beacon while they deal with Melanie
Beacon is the militaries' main base
The educator asks the group what about the rest of the children;
but the sergeant assumes they might be dead
Eventually, the group decides to bring Melanie,
but they restrain her hands and muzzle her face to be safe
She sits on the roof while the rest are inside the truck
As for the Beacon, the truck's range can't reach them
The group decides to gather water at the river
The sergeant asks the surviving soldiers to apply suppressors and soft bullets,
to lessen blood splatter that causes the spread of infection
Unfortunately, the soldier forgets to install suppressors, attracting a small number of Hungries
While the soldiers fight off the Hungries, the scientist and the educators rush inside the truck
But for the soldier, he wrestles against one Hungry and turns into one
The sergeant kills him the moment he shows signs of turning
Because of the wrestle between the soldier and the hungry,
he accidentally shot the truck's fuel line,
giving the group no choice to walk on foot towards London
In London, stagnant Hungries surround the city
Desperate enough, they blend in with the hordes, by sneaking and not making eye contact
After a nerve-wracking tour from the herds, they find an abandoned ward
Inside the ward, they settle in a private room to rest
The sergeant commands the soldier and the educator to do a quick check of the ward
At the same time, Melanie stays with the scientist
Alone, the scientist checks her wound, and sees it far from healing
Then Melanie asks who she is
The scientist tells Melanie her origin
It's revealed that the sergeant with armies went to cities, retrieving survivors
However, they stumbled into a hospital,
and found infected newborns who ate their way out of their infected mother's womb
The newborns grew up, which resulted in Melanie, and the rest of the children in the base
They can reason and have partial immunity to the Hungry pathogen
Melanie confesses that she doesn't want to be Hungry, but the scientist says that's what she is
Late at night, the educator fails to find food for Melanie,
but she manages to find clothes for her instead
The soldier eats canned food
Then he talks with Melanie, listening to her storytelling
In the morning, the group finds the ward surrounded by Hungries
Melanie volunteers to see bait outside
Before she leaves, the educator excitedly dresses Melanie in the new clothes
The group lets her go, and she eagerly explores the city
Eventually, she eats a stray cat she hunted, making herself full
Then in one of the houses, she finds a stray dog
She brings the dog outside the ward, and sets it free, so the rest of the Hungries empty the street
The sergeant restrains her again and muzzles her face
He then applauds her work
The group goes to the top of the building to search for the following route
Melanie volunteers again to find the safest way
The sergeant allows her, and lends her the soldier's radio to report her findings
Eventually, she finds a street manageable to cross
The sergeant restrains her, and the group travels again
While walking, they encounter a massive fungal growth wrapped around the BT Tower,
like vines from piles of dried corpses
When Hungries gather in one place, they turn into a forest-like tree
The fungal tower contains seed pods that, once they open,
will release spores airborne that will end humankind
The scientist then notes to Melanie the spores will serve as symbiotes to her, the Hybrids
The group stumbles upon the abandoned mobile laboratory,
designed by the scientist and her other colleagues
Once inside, the educator searches for food, but there's none
The sergeant comes in to contact Beacon again after checking the truck outside
Then the soldier volunteers for a supply run
When the soldier leaves, Melanie says she needs to eat too, because she's starting to smell them
So they let her go
Outside, Melanie hunts a bird and eats one on the roof
Once complete, Melanie finds a tribe of feral Hybrids like her
Melanie knows the Hybrids smell the soldier's scent, despite the Blocker
So she immediately runs back to the mobile lab to warn them
The scientist tells the educator that she's dying,
because of sepsis caused by her wound in the mobile lab
She begs the educator to at least let her sacrifice Melanie for a vaccine before she dies
But the educator denies it, and leaves the scientist devastated
As for the soldier, he follows a trail of canned food, leading him into a convenience store
Oblivious to the Hybrids' trap, he goes inside, where the feral Hybrids devour him alive
Melanie returns to the lab, and warns the group to find the soldier quickly
The sergeant radios the soldier; but unfortunately,
the soldier left his equipment outside the store to squeeze between the shutters
In the middle of their contact, the Beacon finally responds to their call
The Beacon reports they're almost at fall;
and they're evacuating any survivors left because they'll relocate
Then Melanie once again reminds them about the soldier
Eventually, the educator and the sergeant follow Melanie to the store;
but when they reach inside, they're too late
Melanie explains the Hybrids trapped the soldier; and so they are
Outside, the feral Hybrids surround them
Melanie takes the lead, and growls at the feral Hybrids
Then she wrestles against the tribe's leader, who's holding a bat
The tribe leader's bat falls off while fighting; and Melanie grabs it
She beats the tribe leader's head to death
The three of them manage to escape, while the rest of the feral Hybrids gather around their leader
The three of them return, but the scientist releases propofol in the lab to sedate them
The scientist wants to dissect Melanie; but to her surprise, Melanie stands up
Melanie explains she practiced holding her breath longer than humans can
Then the scientist realizes the fungus metabolizes oxygen for Melanie
The scientist convinces Melanie to sacrifice herself, so they can create a vaccine for the educator
She adds the educator can't be safe once the seed pods open, that responds to moisture or heat
Melanie is almost convinced
Until she asks the scientist if she's thinking about Melanie's kind,
nor does she remember her written words, "Exquisite mimicry of observed behaviors?"
implying that Melanie and her kind are alive and not dead
Melanie leaves the lab, but the scientist follows her outside
Desperate enough, the scientist stumbles and gasps while searching for Melanie
Unfortunately, feral Hybrids corner the scientist where they feast on her
Melanie sets the BT Tower on fire, where the seed pods open, releasing clouds of spores airborne
The sergeant coughs loud when she appears behind Melanie
Melanie explains her actions; thus the sergeant realizes he's turning
The sergeant gives his handgun to Melanie and commands her to kill him at once
The sergeant doesn't want to turn into one,
so Melanie tearily shoots him and shakily says "Transit," just like before in the base
In the lab, the educator wakes up, and sees outside the spores fall like snow
Behind the glass door is Melanie, looking at her
The movie ends with the educator safe and sound inside the mobile lab,
while surrounded by infectious air
While behind the glass wall of the lab, she brings out a whiteboard
Outside the lab are rows of children from the base, and the feral Hybrids sitting together
Knowing that this is the inevitable fall of humankind and the rise of a new species,
The educator speaks through the microphone, greeting the Hybrids to start their lesson
Just like in "Pandora's box," Melanie unleashed hope for her kind
Melanie, standing in the back row,
smiles while watching things unfold beautifully for the second generation of her kind
This's Daniel CC movie channel Stay safe and enjoy your day