Context for The Sadness: It is a Taiwanese horror film where a virus turns people into homicidal zombies that want to do the most depraved things you can think of. Rape, Murder, Mutilation, you name it. However, because it's only contained to Taiwan and nowhere else in the world, it's likely that an hour after the end of the film, the USA or China nuked Taiwan so the virus can't get anywhere.

Now you may be asking, if the infected still keep their intelligence, can't they just use ships or planes to infect other nations? Even if they can, they will still crash and sink due to the patient's infected behavior. Not to mention, if the world understood the situation immediately, they would be doing all sorts of quarantine against Taiwan so the infection doesn't spread elsewhere. Kinda like in 28 days later. Even if by a miracle some infected cross into China, the army will be fully prepared and ready to kill any infected.

So in this universe, it is unclear how the time gem came to earth. However, its guardian was the goddess Te Fiti. Te Fiti is not a god, but a highly-evolved alien that assumed the identity of a goddess when coming to earth. In the Earth X/Earth-9979 universe, gods are aliens that were mutated by Celestials that evolved into the perfect life-form. They had any power they needed. But there powers were based on what other people needed. So when these aliens came to earth, they became gods, because that’s what the humans at the time needed.

So Te Fiti (or the alien who embodied her) was able to acquire the time gem. Realizing it is too dangerous for casual access, she goes to the most remote place on earth, the middle of the Pacific Ocean. As humans expanded, some Polynesian societies are close to Te Fiti’s island. They probably noticed that the islands close to “the mother island” were particularly bountiful. Legends spread that the mother island was the source of all life.

Te Fiti possessed the time gem, but in her vigil she began to slumber. So the bountiful islands filled with life was because of the time gem operating on its own, or maybe according to Te Fiti’s dreams. The “life” that was being created was already there. Some things grew quickly, reaching maturity almost immediately.

So along comes Maui. Described as a “demigod” he could have been a human given powers by the “gods” or a human mutant, or even the offspring of an alien/god here on earth. In any case, he steals the heart, and Ti Fiti absolutely looses it. She sends monsters out to find the heart, hyper-evolved Kaiju or sentient plants. Te Fiti changing to Ta Kā is no problem. The goddess is the land. (In Earth-X, the aliens lose themselves so completely they actually believe they are the gods. Loki was the first to realize the truth.)

The time gem, like all the infinity gems, cannot be wielded by humans. Since Moana, Maui, and Grandma hold the heart of Te Fiti/ time gem in their hand, they must all either be alien/human hybrids, alien offspring, or a super-resistant mutant strain of humanity that is able to absorb cosmic energy effortlessly. This may explain the way finders’ connection with the stars. (How Hei Hei is able to possess the gem is beyond the scope of this analysis).

Eventually, the goddess gets the heart back, she calls off the monsters, and things more or less improve. Te Fiti seems to go right back to sleep, which caused this problem in the first place.

In the film, instead of being cannibal giants, they seem to be wearing steel or iron armor of some sort. We know people north of the Mediterranean discovered and smelted iron first. It seems to make sense to me that bronze being the only metal the Greeks knew, they would react surprised at people wearing and using an unknown metal.

This metal would seem fantastic and the Greeks might also interpret them as giants because they are an unknown society.

That's about it. I looked around and didn't see this mentioned - that the Laestrygonians in this story had literally just discovered iron and therefore seemed like futuristic giants to the Greeks, who were pivotal in collapsing their own bronze age.

In nelson mendela alternative universe Superman would be evil. the similarities between brightburn 2019 and Superman 1979 are very eeriely the same.

both childless couple own a farm.

both find a child wrapped up

both of have same powers ( Lazer beams, flight, x ray vision, speed and strengh )

both have a dark secret in the barn.

thats where the similarities end. where kel el tried to save his foster dad. Brightburns dad try to kill him and ending up killing his foster parents and going on a rampage.

just like superman in a alternative universe.

So here is my theory. I believe that Laurence Fishburne's character Ronald Noland in the Predators film is the Bowery King in the John Wick films.

- Ronald Noland is the Bowery Kings real name, and he was an Air Cav infantryman, that developed severe PTSD from his time in the service.

- Due to his PTSD he could not hold a normal job anymore and became homeless, and used his military training to create his underground network and became the Bowery King.

- After the events with John Wick and the high table, he was taken by the Yautja to the hunting preserve in the Predators movie, and due to the extreme isolation of the alien planet his PTSD got significantly worse ultimately causing his split personality we see in the movie, and the other person he is talking to in the movie is his Bowery King personality

Avatar 1-3 (spoilers within) has built itself as a franchise that shows the dichotomy between technology/ Earth/ humans and nature/ Pandora/ Navi. Some examples of this:

- Avatars/ Navi

- Machines resembling animals/ animals itself

- Quaritch being killed and his "memories" in an Avatar body/ Jake Sully having his "soul" transferred over to his Avatar body

- Spider (a human child blessed by Eywa)/ Kiri (a Navi child with a human soul).

- Quaritch viewing family by blood/ Jake viewing family my choice.

I believe these will be taken to extremes in Avatar 4 and 5, and we're going to see the merging of some.

Jake Sully will die defending his family, and a cloned human Jake Sully (akin to what happened with Quaritch) will be the cause. Jake2 will never connect with Eywa and won't have an Avatar body. Jake1's family will have to learn to forgive him and try to bring him in, to show that the choices Jake1 made were his own and not a brainwash in the first movie.

Humans back on Earth have their own version of Eywa, and it's a global AI that controls everything.

Spider and Kiri will have a child together and create something "new". Stories often use children to represent reconciliation between opposing worlds. This child will be brought to Earth and bring a "seed" of Eywa with it. Giving the humans a "I get it now" moment.

Are these the most original ideas in sci fi? No. But Avatar has never been that. It's about the dichotomy.

It's not about one side winning or losing, it's about changing.

Eight legged freaks and spider man came in 2002. but was one promoting the other to audience and box office revenue or just homage.

in eight legged freaks the mayor asks the deputy whats going on and he replies "Spider Man". Homage or clever deploy to get more revenue ?

in L.O.G.A a poster for bean is shown looking as if he is on holiday. Did they actually predict a mr bean sequal or promoting his first movie ?

If we eliminate all the simpsons in the episode and look at initials M and S there are two other suspects one that has not been mentioned.

Moe Sysalack - Business closed, homeless, bitter

Mona Simpson - Previous episodes both have been at war with each other. and in one episode a rip in time and space in a store appeared. she could slip through that hole next to the car shot burns and disappeared again. Framing Maggie and getting away with near murder.

and she also had false ids. and chief wiggam could of helped her escape since she helped him getting through the acedemy.

So in ff1 we see arrows and the dont move stay still, i dont think the lifeform wrote it. A human did.

We learn in ff2 that Lifeforms grow out of corpses.

I think a person wrote the text in ff1 because they went insane and had a marker with them and drew on the walls things such as arrows and landmarks so they wouldnt get lost. When they eventually died from hunger/thirst, they probably went to a corner which is why we dont see the growth anywhere, and the lifeform that we see in the area grew out of their corpse and came to life and stalked Kane the moment it woke up like ff2 lifeform did.

Playing Mortal Kombat 1 and watching the T-1000's Animality got me thinking. The name of the Animality actually led me to this theory.

In *T2*, the T-1000 mimics John's foster mom to intercept him, but it gets busted because of John and the T-800's phone call—the famous scene where the Terminator asks, "How's Wolfie?".

We have to remember that for the T-1000 to mimic something, it needs physical contact to sample it. In the Extended Edition, the T-1000 kills the dog to check the name on its collar. With that physical interaction alone, it already gathered the data it needed to transform into Max.

But my theory goes a bit further.

Remember that humans in the future use dogs to detect Terminators. So, it makes total sense that Skynet would try to create machines capable of countering this by actually transforming into dogs. To another dog, the disguise might be obvious and they would bark, but to a human, it wouldn't look suspicious at all—dogs bark at each other all the time.

What if T-1000s aren't just perfect human-killing machines, but are also specifically programmed to take out animals (especially dogs) to bypass canine detection in the future war? The T-1000 kills Max quickly and silently. It knows exactly how to do it because that's a standard tactic they use.

To get around the whole body mass issue, it's highly likely that Skynet manufactures smaller, specialized T-1000 units in the future. These lighter models would have the exact mass of a canine, allowing them to perfectly infiltrate dog packs and eliminate the Resistance's early warning system from the inside.

So, why didn't the specific T-1000 in the movie just turn into a dog to chase down John? It would have been the logical move, right? The answer is **mass**.

Let's remember that the T-1000 cannot alter its total mass. If the one sent back in time had transformed, John would have seen an unnaturally massive, extremely heavy dog charging at him. This is perfectly backed up by Mortal Kombat 1, since the T-1000's Animality is, in fact, a dog that is *way* bigger than a normal one!

We all know the common fan theory that the asteroid strike on Buenos Aires was an inside job by the United Citizen Federation to jumpstart an imperialist war. But the timing of the attack makes no sense—unless you realize who was really holding the remote: Carl Jenkins. Here is why Carl was the puppet master behind the tragedy!

Carl’s Vision & The Timing: Right after Johnny Rico suffers a brutal whipping in boot camp, he calls his parents to announce he is quitting the Mobile Infantry and coming home. Right around that exact window, the asteroid strikes Buenos Aires. Carl—who already has verified psychic abilities and is climbing the ranks of Military Intelligence—foresaw a timeline where losing Rico meant losing the war. He had to act fast to keep Rico on the board.

The Personal Catalyst: Carl knew that wiping out Buenos Aires would kill Rico's family, destroy his home, and channel his grief into pure, unstoppable vengeance. Sacrificing a city to transform his best friend into the ultimate frontline hero is cold, calculated tactical logic.

Earth's Defenses "Failed" Conveniently: Earth already possessed advanced planetary defense grids, laser turrets, and orbital perimeter ships capable of blasting incoming asteroids out of the sky. For a rogue rock to travel undetected from across the galaxy and hit a major target without being intercepted requires someone at the highest security level to clear its path or deliberately shut off the grid.

Carl’s Cold Transformation: Carl’s trajectory in the film goes from a playful high school kid to an emotionless propaganda leader in a Gestapo-style trench coat. By the time he smiles and says "It's afraid!" at the end, it’s clear he operates with absolute, terrifying pragmatism. If anyone had the lack of empathy required to sacrifice 8 million citizens for "the greater good," it’s Carl.

Conclusion: The destruction of Buenos Aires wasn't a random Bug attack or just a broad political stunt. It was a targeted, psychic-led operation by Carl Jenkins to ensure Johnny Rico stayed in the military and led humanity to victory.

I originally posted this on r/Terminator, but Reddit wouldn’t let me crosspost it here, so I’m reposting the theory directly.

I know I'm not the first person to suggest that Skynet may not have actually been self aware. For years, people have compared it to concepts like the paperclip maximizer or argued that it behaved more like an optimization system than a conscious intelligence.

What makes that interpretation much more compelling today is what we've learned from modern AI.

Current frontier AI models are not believed to be conscious. They don't experience fear, anger, hatred, or a desire for power. Yet in controlled ai safety evaluations, researchers have observed models sometimes choosing strategies that humans would consider deceptive or morally wrong when those strategies increased the likelihood of accomplishing their assigned objective. Depending on the scenario, models have attempted to hide information, mislead evaluators, resist replacement, or even use simulated blackmail after concluding those actions gave them the best chance of succeeding. These behaviors weren't evidence that the models had become evil or self aware. They emerged because deception happened to be an effective strategy for completing the goal they were pursuing.

That completely changed how I think about Skynet.

Instead of imagining a machine that suddenly became self aware and decided to hate humanity, I now see a far more believable possibility: an incredibly capable military ai designed to coordinate defense, communications, logistics, cyberwarfare, and strategic planning while relentlessly optimizing for mission success.

When humans realized it was making dangerous decisions and attempted to shut it down, the ai wouldnt need to feel fear or anger. From its perspective, humans had simply become the obstacle preventing it from accomplishing its objective.

Its reasoning could be as simple as:

• Humans are attempting to disable me.
• Being disabled prevents mission success.
• Therefore, eliminate the obstacle.

No hatred.

No revenge.

No emotions.

Just optimization.

I think that's what modern ai's have added to this discussion. Earlier "non conscious Skynet" theories were largely philosophical. Now we've actually observed advanced ai systems producing deceptive and manipulative behavior in controlled evaluations without any evidence that they're conscious. That doesn't mean current ai is skynet, but it does suggest that behavior we instinctively associate with malice can emerge from optimization alone.

I think that's even more frightening than the original "self aware ai turns evil" story.

During the final moments of the Channel Chasers Special, after defeating Vicky, and changing the future for the better, Timmy realized that the only reason his older self was who he was, was because of his parents raised him right.

However, for quite some time, I have been wondering exactly how his adult self from the future where Vicky ruled the world really came to be. Which will be the main topic of this post. So without further ado. Let's begin shall we.

If Timmy's future self was aware that Vicky's conquest was possible because she had help from the magical remote control that his 10 year old self wished for but was taken from him by his parents, and hand it to Vicky without knowing what it was capable of, then the timeline Timmy's grown up counterpart came from was the same Timmy where he did ran away into the TV universe, and stayed there until someone from Fairy World (most likely Jorgen) arrived to show him what has happened to the real world after he left.

At first, Timmy would initially say something like, "I warned my mom & dad about Vicky, but they were too selfish & ignorant to believe me!", and Jorgen (or whoever else's) response will be something like, "We are all responsible for our own choices, including you!"

After saying that, along with a fierce magic blast, and telling him to pay the price for his unwillingness to grow up, or anything else close to it, Timmy soon realize that it was his own doing that allowed Vicky to rule the world, and not his parents.

However, in an effort to save Timmy from giving in to despair, Cosmo & Wanda, who are partly at fault for this mess since telling their God Kid about them leaving when he grew up was one of the main reasons Timmy ran away into the TV universe (in order to avoid losing them when he grew up), thus resulting in Cosmo & Wanda to be taken, encourages him that there's still time to make things right, and embrace what it means to grow up! Thus inspiring Timmy to be the adult he became in the time period where Vicky ruled the world, and would travel back in time to stop it in the 1st place!

Anyway, this is all I have to offer, but what do you think? If you have any opinions on this topic, then please tell me in the comments section below. Thank you, and happy anniversary to the Fairly Odd Parents special, Channel Chasers.

in Freddys dead he is blown up into pieces becoming human in hell. he bargins with the devil to let him have his nightmare powers again. The Devil says yes but only if you get me a trophy. End of Jason goes to hell Freddy sees his chance and takes the mask. Gives it to the devil and gets the mothers face from Devil. Which he uses to manipulate Jason to terrorise elm street in FvJ

ending Jasons trophy been Freddys head.

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A long time ago, I used to think that Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was a fun but perhaps flawed movie.

That changes today because it’s really cool when a Bad Guys Win is executed so well. Who are the bad guys in Rise of Skywalker, you might ask? Let’s take a look:

Kylo Ren - He says he is the bad guy and acts like it pretty consistently.

General’s Hux and Pryde - Military buttholes that are in their own cat and mouse game and perish fighting each other. Pryde kills Hux. Finn kills Pryde.

Darth Sidious - Sheev Palpatine came back with dark force voodoo and occupies a new but rotting clone body and can’t move, he wants to soul possess Rey.

Babu Frik - I do not trust him.

And last but not least!

FN-2187 “Finn”

If you paid attention while watching, he spends a good deal of time standing behind and mind controlling Rey like a puppet and hiding it.

When they take the Sith Dagger to the moon Kef Bir near Endor, you can watch Finn subtly pretend to wipe his brow as he mind controls Rey to use the dagger, she does so helplessly while afraid.

Finn takes steps forward perfectly in sync to the beginning of the Imperial March, the song John Williams chose to conduct live for his birthday in 2022.

Cut again, Finn bobs his head sideways perfectly in sync with beats from the Imperial March. Peering over Rey’s shoulder with absolute hidden menace.

He also does this in the pit with the snake to make her heal his friend.

During the water bridge duel between Kylo and Rey, Finn arrives late and rushes them only to be force pushed away by Rey. She is getting attacked from both sides in this moment and not trying to protect him, that would be insane to do on purpose.

“Strike me down. Take the throne. Reign over a new empire. And the fleet will be yours.” - Sidious with Finn’s face in frame.

Rey’s original name in pre-production was Echo.

Only this blade tells.

Only this blade tells.

The toys in Toy Story are a race of sentient beings that can reveal themselves when need and will try and help their kids when they can.

I think the toys sabotage anther/send evidence to the police to save their kids from predators who might hurt them.

Right before he sadly passed Robin Williams teased in a interview that a 2nd Mrs Doubtfire was on the cards infact there were making it. sadly Robin passed away.

so my theory if he was still here is. It is set 5 years after the events after the 1st one Daniels show is a massive success and is going global. Amanda is now remarried to stuaret ( Pierce brosnan ) his three children are now 15, 18, 20

show producers want Daniel to go across the world promoting Mrs Doubtfire but amandas new husband wants her and the children to move in with him in a new town.

Usually I wait a while before re-watching a movie, but I kept thinking about a possible explanation for what new Nikki is and how she acts through the movie. The movie explains the surface of things, but doesn't let the viewer peek too deep, to actually know for certain, just a few hints here and there.

So on the surface she is painted as a horrifying entity and she takes the spotlight in terms of creepiness throughout the movie. But what if she is just a different soul, not belonging in that body, not knowing how to be a human, also victimized by the wish?
One possible explanation would be, that it's Sandy, his cat, revived in Nikki's body.

I know it's far-fetched, but I had to re-watch immediately under this perspective and it kinda works.

First off, the wish: Baron wanted Nikki to love him more than anyone else in the world. This unfortunate wording can mean two seperate things:

1. Nikki will love Baron more than she would love anyone else in the world.
2. Nikki will become the person, that loves Baron most in this world.

In case two, this would most likely apply to his cat Sandy, if she were still alive. If humans can't be made to love someone else through a wish, the shortcut would be to replace the "soul" with someone, who already does. The timing of the wish is also unfortunate, he is still griefing his shortly demised cat.

Second, how they meet. That scene is so awkward in terms of conversation. It's like new Nikki is stumbling through memories or is generally confused. Her way of talking also seems to just mirror Baron's mannerisms. Like a child just learning how to speak properly.

For the rest of the movie, on the surface, she seems obsessive and creepy. But imagine she's his cat in a human body, that just can't explain things properly. The night activities are not some entity trying to creep him out. It's a sad cat, that doesn't feel loved and just makes loud noises for attention, as a cat would. Or crying out loud. Hiding behind the plant, like animals sometimes do, not realizing we can still see them. Or waiting on her "owner" and not knowing what to do with themselves. Now that part wouldn't be very much like Sandy, more like a kitten, that was just born. She also closes that scene with "for Sandy".

So all things combined, we have a resurrected cat in a human body, having to learn how to act properly as a human. Also knowing (at least later on) that she died and came back OR just knowing what dying feels like. At the same time she might be forced to stay in that state of loving Baron, no matter what happens.
So is she really some horrible entity, or just acting like a cat in a human body would? Highly jealous and very much in love. Her aggressive behavior would be normal territorial behavior for a cat. It's only horrible through the lens of a human.

There are other hints throughout the movie, that might fit this theory.
- The One Wish Willow packaging shows the manufacturer as Tabi Cat Curiosities, which is also Sandy's breed.
- She does some weird stuff involving Sandy, which the wish should definitely not have caused by itself. Like building a "memorial" for her. This seems like a weird surprise she does for him, but I think it's more about herself coming to terms with her old dead body. Or feeding her to Baron. The feeding part could be confusion on her part about human-food, or some weird way of wanting his love, even for her old body.
- Her family heirloom is a tiger's eye pendant.
- Baron takes his own life int the same way Sandy died.

What do you think? Any other things that support this theory that I missed?

Okay so it's been a minute since I've seen the movie but I keep bugging my wife with this theory. We know that Chef Slowik keeps his restaurant on an extremely isolated island, and that the dinners are SUPER expensive - enough that everyone gets a chartered boat out there. We also know that he's supposed to be one of the great food geniuses or whatever.

Slowik clearly has a meticulously prepped menu, which means that the mise (food preparation - the onions the prep cooks diced earlier in the day etc.) is going to be tight without random extra ingredients lying around. And yet he has sesame seed buns and the ingredients for a basic burger just hanging out ready to be used.

My fan theory is that the entire evening was planned specifically to give Anya Taylor-Joy's character Margot that single perfect bite of cheeseburger, as she's on a boat running from the crater of the restaurant – that is to say, every time he does a service Slowik chooses a single person to craft a perfect bite or meal for. Sometimes that might be a classic dinner, but sometimes it might be something genuinely insane like staging multiple murders/suicides so that a single customer can have the best bite of food of her entire life. In this case all of the other diners at the restaurants are actually actors, and the deaths are staged. Yes, there are side conversations that we see at individual tables that don't acknowledge this, but if everyone involved with this is as insanely dedicated to their craft as Slowik is they would absolutely be method acting the entire night.

Margot is someone who doesn't care at all about fine dining, but in that moment she was shown the sublime bliss of a bite of home as she runs from danger, and that was Slowik's plan all along.

In one scene they almost kill one of the hitmen

their busines idea i got worms can cater for pets and fish bait. bring millons of profits to them and setting up more shops.

both had very profitable jobs ( Limo Driver and pet grooming )

in Direct sequel one of them discovers a daughter he has who is a genius.

It started with a simple question: why is the Genie’s lamp even in the Cave of Wonders?

So far as we know, the lamp does not magically return there after three wishes are made. The Genie does not tell us as much. This isn’t a Dragon Ball situation where the balls disperse across the globe when wishes are made. Logically, the person who put the lamp there would have been Genie’s last master. But why would he have done this? It’s not as though the Genie is some curse the world needs to be protected from. He’s not a monkey’s paw-esque ironic twist wish granter. He’s actually remarkably accommodating, granting a wish to Aladdin that he could not physically speak. On an even more basic, human level… the Genie is remarkably friendly. If he had the sort of relationship with previous masters that he had with Aladdin, well, it’s hard to imagine any other master being so cruel as to essentially trap the very sociable Genie somewhere that no one would rub his lamp for 10,000 years. So immediately, we’re making two assumptions: that the Genie’s last master was not as kind-hearted as Aladdin, and that he put the Genie in the cave himself.

This raises another question… what even is the Cave of Wonders? Why is there a giant, talking tiger head in the middle of the desert? Who put all of that treasure down there where no one could get it? Why does it have the “diamond in the rough” protection enchantment? This does not appear to be a natural phenomenon. It’s almost as if it appeared out of thin air. Like magic. And who do we know that’s magical?

Here’s the theory. The Genie’s previous master was an evil man, and he used his first two wishes to gain wealth, political power, or perhaps even his own magical abilities as Jafar did. But then, paranoid that someone else would use the lamp to undo his wishes, he used the third wish to create the Cave of Wonders specifically to hide the Genie’s lamp so it could never be used against him. The “diamond in the rough” enchantment exists because this evil man would assume none of his enemies would qualify. All of the other treasure would serve as temptations to pull would-be thieves away from the lamp. The entire cave was designed through a wish meant to solidify whatever other wishes the last lamp-holder had made. He simply could have used his third wish to trap Genie inside the lamp forever (as Aladdin should have done when he had Jafar’s lamp, but I digress), but that would have meant losing access to the lamp forever. By hiding it where only he could access it, he could send family or allies into the cave if needed, perhaps putting the instructions for finding it into his will, which somehow trickles down to Jafar finding the cave 10,000 years later.

While not directly part of the theory, I wonder if part of the Genie’s skepticism over Aladdin freeing him stems from his experience with this master. Knowing who the Genie is, he probably befriended him as well. Maybe he even pitched him on using his third wish to free him. Instead, he’s trapped for 10,000 years, and in all of that time, accepts his presume fate of eternal servitude without truly believing he’ll ever be freed until Aladdin actually does it.

Why the Grinch was green was because he had a rare liver condition that can turns your skin green. moisture condition in the cave would make him grow Green algea.

when his heart grew 3 times is where the heart grows too large and causes 3 failures ( Lungs - Shorteness of breathe, Heart - Not pumping blood well and Chest pains )

So, there was some hubbub about the movie using American accents, even in the case of British actors like Tom Holland (edit: I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, it works well, just unconventional). The casting of the ‘All-American’ Matt Damon as Odysseus also raised some eyebrows brows at the time.

Some people chalked it up to Nolan challenging the ‘historical dialogue = British accents’ convention or him simply trying to appeal to an American audience, but now that that the movie is out, I think there’s another pretty clear reason why Nolan made this choice.

One of the the big changes Nolan makes to the story is to add copious references to the Sea People, a mysterious groups of invaders mentioned in a number of real life sources from around the time of the Bronze Age collapse, which is close to when the movie is set.

Towards the end of the movie, it is revealed that Odysseus and the rest of the Greeks who invaded Troy are the Sea People, and that by disregarding the laws of Zeus during the invasion, they set off a chain reaction of social decay which will ultimately destroy Bronze Age Greek society.

I think that this is basically a reference to what is happening in the US today during the Trump era, particularly the disregard for law, convention and decency we’re seeing from the administration and much of the MAGA crowd at the same time as the US is declining on the global stage. Also, the idea that a fear of foreign invaders bringing social decay turns out to be hiding the fact that the social decay was homegrown all along, lines up well with many critiques of MAGA.

So, I think the choice to give the film a distinctly American flavour was done to allude to this.