Russo brothers of the ‘Avengers’ fame have come back with an expensively assembled sci-fi adventure ‘The Electric State’ starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. Set in an alternate 1990s, where all robots have been exiled, an orphaned teenager embarks on a dangerous mission to find her missing brother, only to discover a sinister truth.
So, does she succeed? Here’s ‘The Electric State’ ending explained:
In this fictional world, bots were said to be built by Walt Disney to promote their theme park and eventually put into mass production. They quickly became the backbone of the global workforce, picking up jobs that humans didn’t want to do. For years, they never complained about working around the clock, until they snapped, grew tired of the lives assigned to them by humans, and demanded lives of their own.
Things went haywire when the ‘Robot Equality Coalition’ went rogue launching violent protests in multiple cities. Any citizen harboring a robot was met with charges of treason. For two years, humanity fought with machines that didn’t eat, sleep, or blink, and for two years, it lost. Until Stanley Tucci’s Sentre CEO Ethan Skate, invented Neurocaster, a breakthrough device that linked the human minds to mechanized drone bodies. The war that lasted two years was over within weeks when machines fought machines, eventually leading to robots being banished to Sentre’s exclusion zone.
Amid this, we’re also introduced to Millie Bobby Brown’s Michelle Greene, a ward of the state, living in foster care, who once had parents and an intelligent brother who’d speak highly of how it is theoretically possible to always stay connected. “Quantum physics says that particles can stay linked way after they come into contact. And if everything exists in a state of electricity, then it’s possible our consciousness could transcend physical boundaries,” he explained.
Michelle was under the impression that his brother died in an accident until he reappeared after the war, in the form of bot Cosmo, alleging his physical form is still present. We learn that it is Ethan Skate who experimented on the child and, in a twisted fate is using his brain to develop and run the Neurocaster. Michelle goes on a sci-fi adventure to find her brother and is helped by Chris Pratt’s John D. Keats, a former soldier, and Herman, a sentient robot, and the remnants of exiled robots.
By the end of the film, Michelle and Keats help the oppressed robots gain their freedom and take down the evil mega-corp Sentre of Ethan Skate but not before a big sacrifice. Michelle’s brother Christopher (Woody Norman), whose brain is hooked to the core of Sentre’s tech, explains that he shares a ‘symbiotic’ relationship with them, which means taking down the company, would also lead to his death.
He is ready to make the sacrifice and Michelle who was initially hesitant to make the decision, pulls Christopher’s plug, which leads to his and Sentre’s demise. However, the film drops subtle hints in the closing scene that Christopher’s consciousness might still be present in his bot Cosmo, and therefore he might still be connected to Michelle.
