Children Are Sent to Colonize a Distant Planet But Their Mission Turns Into Chaos & Hunger For Power — Transcript

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1. 0:00Welcome back to Movie Recaps. Today  I will show you an adventure, sci-fi,
2. 0:04thriller film from 2020, titled Voyagers. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.
3. 0:10The Earth is dying. Scientists look for a new  planet able to sustain human life and find it in
4. 0:15the year 2063. The planet is seen on screen,  while a woman explains that it is a planet
5. 0:21humans can colonize. She continues, saying that  a scouting mission to the planet should be sent.
6. 0:26Since the voyage there will take 86 years, the  crew of the mission will reproduce on the ship,
7. 0:30making the third generation on board the one  to reach the planet. The crew is genetically
8. 0:35engineered on Earth by combining the genes of  leading scientists. A man is seen talking about
9. 0:39the reasoning behind this plan, justifying  why the crew will be specifically engineered
10. 0:44to man the mission, consisting of children  raised and trained solely for its purpose.
11. 0:48The next step is assessing when they'll  be ready to go. The younger the crew is,
12. 0:52the longer the resources can be preserved. But,  the man - Richard, is worried that they might not
13. 0:58be fully equipped to deal with the complexity of  space travel on their own. Later, Richard is seen
14. 1:03entering a facility where the child crew is being  raised and he gets into full protective gear.
15. 1:08He enters the rooms where they live and when they  see him they all rejoice. Richard monitors where
16. 1:13they are in their education, and then tucks  Christopher, Sela and Zac into bed. Zac tells
17. 1:18him that he's afraid, but Richard comforts him by  telling him that he's safe. The next day, Richard
18. 1:23is talking to a woman in charge of the mission.  He tells her that he should go with the children,
19. 1:27to raise and protect them. Richard's addition  to the mission would also mean that it will be
20. 1:32able to launch in 4 years, instead of 7. Next,  the mission launches with Richard on the helm.
21. 1:38The shuttle docks with Humanitas, the ship for  the mission. They all go inside and find their
22. 1:43quarters. Richard takes one last look of Earth. 10 years later, the children are already adults,
23. 1:49as they can be seen waking and getting  ready to start their days on the ship.
24. 1:53The first lesson covers the fertilization  for the second generation, which will begin
25. 1:57in the 24th year of their lives. The  crew goes about their day like robots.
26. 2:01They're seen drinking a blue liquid. Christopher  and Zac are listening to classical music.
27. 2:06Sela walks through the ship and looks out at the  space around them. Later, she talks to Richard,
28. 2:11saying that the lives of the crew are  unimportant. Trying to comfort her, he shows
29. 2:15her pictures of his grandparents, telling her  that providing for the future is very important.
30. 2:20That night, Christopher can't sleep.  He listens to the sounds of the ship.
31. 2:24The next day, Richard and Christopher are in the  hydroponics bay checking the state of the plants,
32. 2:29when a message about toxicity in the water appears  on Christopher's screen. He asks Richard about it,
33. 2:35thinking it's some kind of chemical that  isn't being processed from their urine,
34. 2:38but Richard dismisses his concerns. He's  skeptical about it. So, later, he asks Zac
35. 2:44about the ingredient T56j. They wonder why the  information is unavailable. During the night,
36. 2:49the two of them go back to figure out what  it is. Christopher bypasses the firewall
37. 2:54and is able to find the information. The chemical  ingredient is found in the blue liquid they drink.
38. 2:59Zac thinks it was a digestion aid, but they  figure out that it has other effects on their
39. 3:03personality. It makes them dull and docile,  decreasing their desires and pleasure responses.
40. 3:09They're being drugged and pacified, so they don't  reproduce naturally and overpopulate the ship.
41. 3:14The two of them stop drinking the blue liquid.  Later, they share the information with Kai
42. 3:18and Julie. Along with the information  about a hidden compartment on the ship.
43. 3:23Later, Christopher is in a session with Richard.  He says he knows that he's been lying to them,
44. 3:28but only mentions the unmarked compartment, pod  23. Richard tells him that the mission must have
45. 3:33lied to them for a reason, that the pod might  be for the third generation. After the session,
46. 3:38Richard sends a message back to Earth asking if  he could share everything with the crew and be
47. 3:42honest with them, so they don't lose faith in  him. The message will take time to get there.
48. 3:47The next day, while standing in line next to  Sela, Christopher has a fantasy about her.
49. 3:52They eat lunch and he keeps looking at her, but  Zac approaches her telling her that she's changed.
50. 3:57Richard comes in and tells him not to grab her,  as per the rules. In the gym, Christopher and Zac
51. 4:02are seen fighting and taking it a bit too far.  The others don't understand what's happening.
52. 4:07The two of them start feeling the effects of not  taking the drug. They hear the ship noises and
53. 4:12go to an observation room where they see one of  their fellow crewmembers. The three of them talk
54. 4:16about what it might be, so he tells them that he  thinks it might be some kind of alien life form.
55. 4:21Sela and Richard are in his office and he shows  her dried plants from Earth. Zac and Christopher
56. 4:26hear them talking and approach the room. Zac sees  Richard touching Sela's shoulder and gets jealous.
57. 4:32They loose contact with Earth and Richard informs  them that their transmitter needs to be fixed.
58. 4:37Zac will come with him, while the  others continue with their roles.
59. 4:40The preparations are under way, as Zac  sees Sela and approaches her again.
60. 4:44She tells him about the suit he'll be wearing  and he starts touching her inappropriately.
61. 4:49Richard runs in and gets him off of her. He asks  Zac what's happening, but he runs away. Looking
62. 4:54for him, Richard sees Phoebe on the way and  she tells him that he stopped taking the blue.
63. 4:59Next, he runs into Christopher and finds  out that he stopped taking the drug as well.
64. 5:03They argue, but Richard tells him that the  drug was implemented to stop precisely the
65. 5:07type of behavior witnessed in Zac. He asks  Christopher to help him fix the transmitter,
66. 5:12so that when it's online he'll back him up when  he voices his objections to mission control.
67. 5:16All of the other crewmembers are on their  positions in the ship, while prep for the
68. 5:20spacewalk is under way. Zac enters the systems  room. Richard and Christopher go outside the ship.
69. 5:26Christopher is experiencing sensations he hasn't  felt before, so Richard keeps an eye on him.
70. 5:31Richard repairs one of the transmitter  parts then goes over the the second one.
71. 5:36Inside the ship, the noises from the ship can  be heard again and the crew is getting restless.
72. 5:40They check to see if anything else is outside and  suddenly something appears on the screen next to
73. 5:45Richard and Christopher. It hurts Richard, hurling  him away from the ship. The ship has some kind
74. 5:50of malfunction as well. No one knows what has  happened. There is a fire in the systems room.
75. 5:56Christopher brings Richard inside and they take  him to medical. All kinds of errors appear on
76. 6:01the ship, from navigation to communication. The  medical team and Sela are trying to resuscitate
77. 6:06Richard, but it doesn't work. Sela is the  chief medical officer and pronounces him dead.
78. 6:11Later, the crew has a meeting, where  they speak about what has happened.
79. 6:15They mention the creaking sound. One of the  crewmembers says he saw something on the
80. 6:19monitor when it happened, that looked like a force  jumping into Richard, like it was something alien.
81. 6:24Phoebe starts crying. Christopher comforts  them, saying that if they keep it together
82. 6:28they'll be alright. The systems reboot and the  crew is checking the surveillance archive, but
83. 6:33all of the footage has been deleted by the fire in  the systems room. They need to choose a new chief
84. 6:38officer. Zac says that he should be chief. But  the others say that they need an election. All of
85. 6:44them vote and place Christopher as chief officer.  Zac is jealous, but congratulates him regardless.
86. 6:50First order of business is repairing the damage in  the transmitter. He gets the entire crew working
87. 6:55on the other repairs on the ship caused by the  fire. The surveillance system is the last thing
88. 7:00on the repair list, so they can see what happened  to Richard. They hope the drives are intact. Sela
89. 7:05goes to his office and looks through his pictures  and videos, when Christopher arrives at the door.
90. 7:10She tells him that she is supposed to destroy his  personal archive, even though she doesn't want
91. 7:14to do it. She shows him Richard's photographs  and they talk about the importance of parents.
92. 7:19He asks why Richard told her about his life,  thinking that they might have been more than
93. 7:23friends, but she explains that he was just feeling  alone. They look through his video diary, where he
94. 7:28explains how much he believes in the mission  and talks about how much he cares for them.
95. 7:32Christopher is looking for the crew and finds them  in the cantina, angry that they're not at their
96. 7:36posts. Zac tells him that they're repairing the  refrigerators, so they don't lose any food. But
97. 7:42there's a bunch of food that might go bad so he  asks him is they can have a feast, to celebrate
98. 7:46their new chief officer. After they eat, Kai tells  the others not to drink the blue and they all
99. 7:51dump it. Sela and Christopher are looking through  Richard's videos laughing and enjoying themselves.
100. 7:56Christopher feels increasingly more attracted to  her. Zac feels attracted to Julie, he touches her
101. 8:02and she touches him back. The others are looking  at them. Later, the crew can be seen play fighting
102. 8:07and running around the ship, having fun. They  all look through Richards personal archive.
103. 8:12Sela finds them in his quarters and tells  them to leave, but they don't want to.
104. 8:17Zac is the last to leave, telling Sela that  Richard isn't there anymore to protect her.
105. 8:21She goes back to the med bay, and grabs a scalpel.  Christopher is following Zac, worried he might do
106. 8:27something to Sela, when he finds out that she's  in the med bay and goes there before Zac can.
107. 8:31Zac arrives and Christopher pretends that the  two of them are making love, so he leaves. Sela
108. 8:36threatens him with the scalpel, not understanding  his intentions. But when he says he's there to
109. 8:41help her, she says he should help the rest of  the crew, because they're getting out of control.
110. 8:46Christopher leaves and finds Zac along the way,  telling him to stay away from Sela, when they hear
111. 8:50the strange crackling noise again. He follows  it around the ship, as others can hear it too.
112. 8:55Kai sees Julie getting close to another crewman,  so he flies into a rage and punches him off her.
113. 9:01They fight. Later in the cantina,  Christopher tries to get the crew to behave,
114. 9:05but they don't like it. Suddenly, the crewman  that Kai beat up starts hitting him with a tool.
115. 9:10Christopher stops him by hitting him too.  He tells everyone to get Kai and the other
116. 9:15one treated and then to meet at the common  room. In the meeting he tells everyone that
117. 9:19the fighting has to stop and the reparations  have to continue. Zac challenges him and the
118. 9:23others think that they shouldn't be doing the work  because they won't get to the end of the mission.
119. 9:27Christopher says that their grandchildren will  and that they need to support them. One of the
120. 9:31crewmembers says he doesn't want to work in  the systems room because the alien lives there.
121. 9:36He thinks Christopher brought it in when Richard  died. Phoebe suggests they repair the surveillance
122. 9:40system and see what happened, but Zac belittles  her and tells Christopher to shut up too.
123. 9:45He doesn't care about the rules anymore  and tries to get the others on his side,
124. 9:49saying Christopher isn't the right leader.  Zac thinks he should be the leader and tries
125. 9:53to convince the rest of them to become a part of  his group, which will be strong enough to fight
126. 9:57the alien if it's there. Many of the crew follow  him, but some of them stay on Christopher's side.
127. 10:02That group goes to the surveillance room to fix  the system, afraid the alien might be there.
128. 10:07Christopher goes in first to check. Zac and the  others roam the hallways and reach the systems
129. 10:12room. Him and Kai go inside the room, not knowing  Christopher has been in there too. They go deeper
130. 10:18inside the room to look for the alien. The ones  on the outside see something happening inside,
131. 10:22and Zac and Kai run out terrified, sealing the  room as they leave. Later, they tell the others
132. 10:28from the group that the alien attacked them.  Meanwhile, Christopher brings the surveillance
133. 10:32drive to Sela in the med bay. Him, her and a few  others check the footage. They find the footage
134. 10:38from the systems room and realize that it was Zac  and Kai that killed Richard by electrocuting him,
135. 10:43then lied about the alien. The group decides to  keep quiet for the moment, until they figure out
136. 10:47what to do. Christopher and Sela hide the drive in  her room and talk about Zac. He thinks that this
137. 10:53is what they're really like without the drug,  but she disagrees, saying that the two of them
138. 10:57are different. He says that he's worried that  the others won't care about the truth and that
139. 11:01maybe he doesn't care either. Sela tells him to  stay with her. They kiss and they sleep together.
140. 11:07In the morning, there's a knock on Sela's door.  It's Zac saying that he'll come inside, one way or
141. 11:12another. When she and Christopher open the door,  Zac and Kai invite them to another celebration in
142. 11:17the cantina. Christopher's group arrives, while  the others are already eating. Zac invites them
143. 11:23to get some food. When they sit down, he stands  up and proclaims himself the new chief officer.
144. 11:29Suddenly, Christopher stands up to, goes to a  monitor and plays the footage from the incident.
145. 11:34He tells the others that Zac killed  Richard and that there is no alien,
146. 11:37that he's been lying to them. He suggests  Zac confines himself in his room, while they
147. 11:42consult the program and they decide what to do.  Everyone gets upset and Zac confesses, saying he
148. 11:47did it to protect them, because the alien was  in Richard and Christopher brought it inside.
149. 11:52He convinces the others that the alien is  inside the ship, hiding in one of them.
150. 11:56Zac says that they need to find it and kill it,  to which they all agree. He pits them against each
151. 12:01other and they start fighting. They think it's the  crewman that works in the med bay and they start
152. 12:06chasing after him. Christopher follows suit. Kai  hits him first, then the others join, as they kick
153. 12:11the crewman to death. Christopher takes his group  to a secure place in the ship, while Zac's group
154. 12:16goes into the med bay and they arm themselves.  Christopher's group tries to figure out what to
155. 12:21do and some of them want to give up, saying they  can't do anything in the moment. They think they
156. 12:25should join Zac's group and try to detain him  later, because his group has weapons and they
157. 12:29don't. Sela realizes that Christopher knows  about the weapons hidden on the ship in the
158. 12:33secret compartment. Christopher goes to find it by  himself. He opens a compartment and crawls inside,
159. 12:39searching for it. When he finally finds it,  he can't open it and an alarm starts blaring,
160. 12:44which Julie and another crewman hear. They hear  him inside the compartments too and tell Zac
161. 12:49about it. Christopher gets out to get some tools  to open the compartment, but when he comes back,
162. 12:54the other group is already taking the compartments  apart. They open the secret compartment and find
163. 12:58the weapons. Kai thinks they're meant for the  third generation, but Zac says they are for them.
164. 13:04Two people from Christopher's group  want to join Zac and the others.
165. 13:07Zac asks where the rest are hiding. Sela,  Phoebe and Christopher devise a plan how
166. 13:12to get close to Zac. He suggests that he  should kill him, but Phoebe doesn't like it.
167. 13:17Sela watches them on the monitor and sees  that they're moving, coming after them.
168. 13:21They cut their power and arrive at the room. Sela  tells her group not to resist, as the others storm
169. 13:26the room and grab them. Sela stops them, as they  are dragging Christopher away, and asks to talk
170. 13:31privately to Zac. She says she wants to be with  him and join his group, as she walks up to him.
171. 13:37But he rejects her, laughing at her, when  Phoebe appears asking if they've all gone crazy.
172. 13:42She says they can decide not to act the way  they have. But they all tell her to shut up.
173. 13:47Suddenly Kai kills her to the shock of everyone,  including Zac. But he turns it around and goes
174. 13:52after Christopher. He and Sela escape, but  the others hunt for them throughout the ship.
175. 13:56They hide in a vent, but the others quickly find  which one it is. Zac shoots inside, as Julie tells
176. 14:02him to be careful, because he's destroying their  food supply. He sends one of his men after them
177. 14:07to see if he got them, but they escape again.  Suddenly, someone shoots at them, so they start
178. 14:12looking for weapons. Christopher finds a fire  extinguisher and as Kai comes inside the med bay,
179. 14:17they incapacitate him and accidentally kill  him. Zac finds them fast and shoots after them
180. 14:22as they run away. They get into an airlock and  Christopher tells Sela to get into a space suit.
181. 14:27He covers the window of the air lock. When  Zac reaches it, he shoots without hesitation.
182. 14:32Suddenly he's sucked inside, because the hatch  to the outside has been opened. He grabs Sela
183. 14:37and goes to close the hatch, fighting with  her and eventually stabbing her with a knife.
184. 14:41Christopher pushes him outside the hatch, but as  they fight, ends up sucked out in space himself.
185. 14:46Before Zac can close the hatch, Sela kicks  him out of it. She searches for Christopher,
186. 14:51waiting for him to come back and suddenly  sees him grabbing onto the ship. The two
187. 14:55of them come back inside and tell the others  that Zac is gone. They put down their weapons.
188. 15:01Some time later, all of the crew is having lunch  in the cantina. Sela asks Christopher how they
189. 15:06can make sure something like that doesn't happen  again. They listen to some of Richards recordings
190. 15:10again, in which he says that no matter what bad  happens on the mission, the ones that prevail
191. 15:15are proof that humans are worth saving. The crew  votes for a new chief again and they choose Sela.
192. 15:20She records a diary in which she says that they  will vote for everything from that moment on and
193. 15:24that they will still not go back to the blue.  The crew continues repairing the ship and work
194. 15:29together in peace as time goes by. Sela can be  seen pregnant and the baby is Christopher's.
195. 15:34The baby is born. A few years later, it can  be seen running on the ship and joining other
196. 15:39children. Those children grow up on the  ship, as the first generation grows old.
197. 15:4486 years since the start of the mission  the Humanitas can be seen floating in space
198. 15:48and engaging it's drive to land on the  planet. The older generations and the
199. 15:52younger ones look toward their  new home on the alien planet.