Nearly a decade after an alien force came to earth, the human race has been thoroughly subjugated. Captive State is a film about the ways in which the original population is coping with their current state. In a way Captive State picks up right after the end of They Live. They Live featured an alien race which chose to live amongst the humans in a covert way so as not to upset them. This group of aliens is very different, they don’t care about causing chaos. They rely on their human collaborators and propaganda, examples of which are heard throughout the trailer, to keep people calm.
Captive State looks like a very tense extraterrestrial version of the infamous 1971 Stanford prison experiment. During the experiment, a group of students was split into two categories, prisoners and guards. The prisoners had to follow very simple rules and the guards had to enforce those rules. Within six days the experiment escalated to such an extent researchers were forced to stop it. I would imagine Captive State will feature some sort of human rebellion against their alien overlords and their human collaborators which begs the question of how the rebels will defeat the alien force and their superior weaponry.
Perhaps a second trailer will shed more light on that issue, until then this trailer is certainly enough to capture audiences’ attention.
Captive State is directed by Rupert Wyatt and stars John Goodman, Vera Farmiga, and Alan Ruck. It will be released in the U.S. on March 29th, 2019 and in the U.K. on April 12th, 2019. For international release dates click here.
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