Rakka (film)

Rakka
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Written by Neill Blomkamp
Thomas Sweterlitsch
Starring Sigourney Weaver
Carly Pope
Music by Lorne Balfe
Production
company
Release date
  • June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14) (YouTube)
Running time
 22 minutes
Country United States
Canada
Language English

Rakka is a 2017 American-Canadian military science fiction short film by Oats Studios directed by Neill Blomkamp.[1]

The film was released on YouTube and Steam on 14 June, 2017.

Plot

Chapter 1: World

The Earth will be attacked by technologically far superior and highly aggressive reptilian aliens in the near future. Humanity is nearing extinction. Millions have already died or have been enslaved. The extraterrestrials transform the earth in favor of its living conditions. They burn down forests, destroy cities and build huge megastructures that change the atmosphere and make the air less and less breathable for people, especially when approaching them. The structures also warm up the earth's climate, causing the port cities to be flooded.

The story begins in 2020, from the point of view of a Texas unit, militia officers representing the remains of the US Army. The last surviving people live mostly in underground hiding places and houses ruins, and have just enough provisions, weapons and ammunition to resist. The resistance fighters use conventional projectiles, wheel armor cars, pick-up trucks and technicals. As their situation is so desperate they have adopted terrorist tactics like suicide bombers to gain any small victory. On the other hand, all the high-tech extraterrestrials are based on a kind of oily-black nano-liquid, which can transform and solidify into tools, weapons, structures and spaceships. They also have telekinesis and telepathic powers. With the latter, they can influence and control animals and humans.

In order to counteract this, the resistors invented Brain Barriers (Brainlocks), which, however, can only be manufactured in very small quantities by hand. The reptilians know that humans do not follow production, and that the destruction of mankind is only a matter of time. The extraterrestrials have made the politicians their idle servants by means of brain implants and try to lure people voluntarily into concentration camps ("conservatories") in order to break the last resistance. They also make experiments on people, of whom only the very least survive, or even escape.

After the aliens destroy a militia convoy with an airstrike, one of the surviving soldiers witnesses an angel-like being materialise from thin air. The narration describes ″them″ as mankind's saviours.

Chapter 2: Amir & Nosh

Nosh is a technically savvy pyromaniac and bomb maker who lives as a hermit on a scrap yard. He is despised by the resistance fighters for his inclinations and demands (″disposable″ people for bait), but they need the brain barrier hoods and explosives he can provide.

The resistance fighters have in their custody Amir, who escaped from the aliens. The aliens experimented on Amir. They implanted cybernetics into Amir's head and shoulders. Amid opposition from her lieutenants, the resistance leader, Jasper, releases Amir from her custody into the care of a resistance fighter named Sarah. Sarah, having lost her daughter to the alien's experiments, attaches to Amir. She looks after him, giving him food and drink while trying to persuade Amir to help the resistance fight the extraterrestrials using the precognitive powers he acquired as a result of the aliens' experiments.

Chapter 3: Siege

Amir has recovered physically and mentally. He sees - thanks to his implants - in a future vision a wounded extraterrestrial on the run. Sarah asks him to help them, as the victim ready militia will openly attack the extraterrestrials. If he helped them, the militia officers would not have to die and the terrible experiments he had to suffer from, and the genocide would finally stop. The more she talks to him, the more his eyes change and he sees the future vision of the impending attack more clearly. Amir, still dumb, foresaw that the militia succeeds in shooting down an extraterrestrial aircraft and injuring the pilot. Sarah asks Amir if they will be able to learn how to hunt the reptilians and teach them how to fear. He still does not answer her and still sees that the wounded extraterrestrial hurls one of the militia officers against a wall by means of telekinesis, dropping his brain barrier and causing him to fight his comrades, who have no choice but to kill him. Sarah tells Amir that he now has the powers the aliens have and that he is to use them for humanity. Finally, he sees how the militia succeeds in shooting the extraterrestrials, whereupon Jasper orders the militia to cut off its head. Sarah urges Amir to use his abilities, as they have no other alternative.

Cast

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