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From: goun%whoaru.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
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Subject: "Cocoon" query
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 14:44:53 EDT
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From: goun%whoaru.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Heisenberg may have slept here)

I finally got to see "Cocoon" yesterday, and came away sorely puzzled at
some obvious consequences of the ending.  Can anyone out there enlighten me?

   ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER **

The boat captain (whose name I've forgotten) is left floating in a rubber
raft when the "Arcturians" and the old people are lifted up to the
mothership in his boat.  Presumably, he survives.  A little later, though,
we see the funeral scene, suggesting that the old folks are thought to have
drowned.

Wouldn't our hero return to civilization to find himself charged with thirty
counts of manslaughter, at the very least?

Should I put this down to another case of Hollywood playing fast and loose
with reason, or am I missing something?

					-- Roger Goun

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