Noah's Ark and the Monolith from 2001?

Kang really is an alien

that his story is completely without fabrication.

Kang reading through Lee's materials, together with the scenes taken directly from 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Old Testement that the story was embellished, and not to be taken completely at face value.

I don't believe that Kang was an alien at all. I see the whole ending of the movie as allegorical. When the main character's girlfriend dies and he's lying on the ground looking at her, I believe his last words are "but who is going to save the Green Planet now..." He's dying and everything you see after that IS ALL IN HIS HEAD. He's so convinced that Kang is an alien that he IMAGINES the spaceship arriving and all the rest. And when the credits start to roll and you see the images of his life on the tv floating in the air, that's the "your whole life flashes before your eyes" moment right before death.

Lee was right about everything that he said. he even got the language right.

the idea that our popular culture is referenced doesn't mean that the truth was embellished. rather, i think that the movie, books, evolution, the bible, etc. are all pale reflections of what had really happened. they aren't totally true but, but the truth is out there.

you could say that Lee put together the truth from all the clues... but, i wouldn't necessarily be happy w/ that.

it didn't hit me until i realized that telepathy clearly exists. the helmets work, the haircut worked, Lee's girlfriend had it (from her sudden realization that Lee was in danger). i think Lee probably had some of it as well and that helped him understand what was really happening. he was drawn to it.

but, ultimately, the realization that Kang is an alien was the final piece evidence. at that moment, i had to say... Lee wasn't a nutcase. i had been still thinking, no way... he can't be right.

what is the true message about the film? the reason i gave this movie an 8/10 was b/c it is the only movie (maybe the matrix) that i can think of that asks you to make a decision in the end.

do you still doubt Lee? despite his suffering life and after everything was confirmed, do you still doubt as everyone else in the movie did? do you lack the faith? if you doubt, then you have failed the experiment... and we deserve the final resolution.

i choose to believe him.

if he's really dead or just dying. i thought he was dead.

Ichi the Killer had an ending with a similar explanation, where some people posed it was all in Kakihara's mind.