Since he funded the whole thing and was the big boss man, he could've snuck out past the outer wall of the game park unnoticed and got the medicine. He could've easily made sure the outer guards kept quiet about it since he wrote their checks. Plus it would've kept the poor blind girl from almost dying herself.
shareHe had taken an oath to never return to the towns. All the founding adults had.
They actually made a big point about how HE had taken the oath . . . but Ivy had not. And so to let Ivy go would not be breaking the covenantal promise that they had made to each other.
He had taken an oath to never return to the towns.
I interpret it as their wholehearted dedication to their decision and their new way of life. They didn't want to have one foot in one world and one foot in the other, but rather desired to fully embrace their new world without looking back. The old world was gone for them. It no longer existed and they couldn't rely on it for support.
I understand their decision.
They didn't want to have one foot in one world and one foot in the otherThey already had one foot in the other world since they were paying the outside security guards to keep strangers out. They also paid the government for a no-fly zone, which wouldn't have been enforced in perpetuity unless the elders continued to pay for it. The movie conveniently avoids discussing what happens after the elders start dying off. share
I'll agree on your last statement. I have no idea how that would work, once the appropriate people on the outside stopped getting their money.
Still, I don't think the oath is nonsensical or irrational.