Earlier when no one voted the machine just picked someone at random, it didn't give the tie beams. But at the end when it was just him and the fetus, no one voted and then it got the tie beams. Shouldn't have picked someone at random.
shareYeah, I don't think you missed anything. I think you're correct. The movie was inconsistent about ties.
As I think this over, it could have been a much darker and creepier ending if the final two had come down to a random selection. Have the guy be picked to die and end the movie with the dead woman back on earth lying on the ground with the living fetus inside of her which we would know was now doomed. Yikes!
Is that what happened? I thought that the guy voted for the fetus and since the fetus could obviously not vote, the fetus was killed off and the guy won, hence he wakes up on the streets alive.
Did i miss something?
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At first, he wasn't considering that the fetus counted as a participant (neither did I btw).
He just stood there for 2 minutes confused, talking out loud and wondering why the game didn't end. He didn't vote because he didn't think that there was anyone left to vote for.
It wasn't until the two beams appeared over himself and the pregnant woman's belly that he deduced what was going on and he snuck in a vote in the nick of time to win the game.
On the subject of it picking people at random. Was it ever established it did? It's entirely possible in a room of 50 (49, 48) people one of them will have their fist clenched at anyone time
I can't really remember but when no one voted didn't go buck mad and hightlight them all
Or the rules simply change once they go down to a certain number.
Or, as someone suggested below, it's possible that people did vote at first (but nobody noticed) and that's why people died and it wasn't like a regular tie.
He voted. It showed him close his hand. I thought it was odd a nominee could vote, but he did.
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The movie shows no hand closing in this final voting. In the "ask the movie makers" thread, they told they left it open ended. Also, they said there that the rules for the final 1v1 tie might be different, I just don't remember exactly how.
shareWas it established at first that if nobody voted, then it would either pick a random person OR give tie beams? Or just pick a random person?
shareNot necessarily. What we saw was people in the group encouraging everyone to NOT vote so they could see what happened in such a case. Nobody debated the point, but someone (or multiple people) could have secretly cast their vote. Remember, nobody can see anyone else's arrow, and while many people made a big deal of putting their hand out and clenching their fist hard to cast their vote, some did it much more subtlely.
If only one person decided to go against the majority and vote when everyone else abstained, he or she would be solely responsible for the death in that round.
No one can see anyone else's arrow, BUT everyone can hear when someone votes (there's a loud "honk" sound)
They can also see everyone else's hand (or tell if the person's hiding his hand)
There was at least one no-vote round early on (the one where all the arrows light up)
He definitely voted for the Fetus. It's apparent because he woke up outside and survived.
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