At the end of the movie 9, you notice many strange greenish glowing bacteria like substances that have exploded into the entire world. Helena is a guinea pig, part of an experiment in which humans are monitored for their whole lives, in the interest of an eventual mission to venture to the fictional planet of Celeste.

Then again, we humans are a complicated lot.Although Helena wasn’t physically tortured, she was deprived of a normal life without her knowledge. And when she does get a taste of the world outside, she refuses to be treated like a guinea pig any longer. Filed under: ← Previous Post. It could also be that her daughter was well aware of the experiment, unlike Helena was.Judging from the silhouette of the figure at the end of the film, the girl might be looking at Alex as he steps out of the Orbiter.Helena might still be inside because she can’t survive in the outside world.Some theorize that she might have already been transported to Celeste where she’s waiting for Alex and their daughter.

(Not that I’m complaining, there have been some really fun recent entries and some stinking turds as well). It shows that it's Orbiter 9, Hugo looks older, and you can hear countdowns and rockets launching in the background. When an engineer named Alex boards her ship for repairs, she invites him to have dinner with her. Alex is allowed to get away, but Helena is captured.Alex comes up with a way to be with Helena again. Yet another scifi film picked up by netflix. Posted on April 12, 2018 by deffinition. Alex smuggles Helena to his apartment and this allows her to experience the rain and wind on her skin for the first time. For instance the puppets having a soul are odd and even odder is the machinery that hunts them.


Like when Helena discovers Alex was working with the same people who used her as a guinea pig, or when Alex’s therapist dies trying to protect him and Helena. Alex was a pioneer of the program to reach Celeste and to study the human guinea pigs, but he has now rebelled.Returning to Helena due to the connection he feels, Alex informs her that her ship is only an observation module in which all her movements and bio-signs are recorded daily. Whilst most will struggle with this I personally believe that though it may seem necessary on the surface, Helena’s story showcases how we must value one another and that all life is precious.Finding out that she is in fact a clone and isn’t classified as a real person still doesn’t matter too much to me and this technicality has clearly been brought in by the government to allow experimentation. They make love. The scientists are old now, and there are sounds of engines in the sky.The movie ends with the girl looking back at another figure that steps out of the Orbiter.There are many theories on this ending on social media, the most common being that girl is Helena and Alex’s daughter.Earlier in the movie, Alex mentioned that the space mission to Celeste would get off the ground in another 15 to 20 years.Considering the girl looks about that age and there are unseen spacecrafts heard in the sky, it seems the experiment was successful. Órbita 9/Orbiter 9 written & directed by Hatem Khraiche. Her physical constitution can’t adapt to the outside atmosphere. Unable to turn her in, her surrogate mother frees her.They are both now in danger, and as the authorities begin to suspect Alex’s betrayal of the program, they hunt down and kill Silvia, a psychologist whom Alex has visited on a regular basis. This means that Helena and Alex are on the run from the scientists.For his directorial debut, Hatem Khraiche does a fine job bringing together romance and sci-fi, two extremely strong genres independently. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the film so if you’ve seen it please comment below and let me know.If you would like to hear more of my ending explained videos then please subscribe to my channel.