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Be brave! Comment. I’ll give the answer when I get home.

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I will wade in. The wife leaving a message for the brother to ”swing” foreshadows the final confrontation with the alien. Dad “gets it” first by asking abiut coincidences and encouraging the brother to action. Because of this, they discover how water affects the creature. The final statement, when the dad agrees with his son that “someone saved him” leads to the final scene showing the father dressed as a priest with an almost too obvious cross on the bathroom door. There are a lot of layers but I will go with the wife’s death caused him to lose faith but, her message, while dying, foreshadowed his return to faith. Coincidence? It is an odd one if so.

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The key: Dad, did someone save me? Then the return to faith and the final cross. The dad’s “Don’t. Don’t” is to God. Don’t make all these revelations be for nothing.

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Such a great movie. I'm sure you've heard the theory they they weren't actually aliens, but demons (https://www.cbr.com/m-night-shyamalan-signs-demons-aliens-theory/). That last words I heard we're the son saying "Did somebody save me?" and the dad replying "Yeah, Ben, I think someone did". Then the final scene is Mel Gibson back in his cleric garb, seemingly having returned to faith?

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By all means, a return to the faith. And look again at the last image — look at the door.

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Missed the door! It zooms right in on it to the perfect dimensions and as it fades out seems to do so around the cross last, if just for a moment.

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Precisely. It’s even stronger on large screen with original music. And the pattern of the door has been altered to stress the cross.

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