Hi, Today, I am
going to explain a Canadian science fiction
thriller film called “Radius”. Spoilers
ahead!!
The movie opens with bright lightning
striking the ground. Following the storm,
a man wakes up in the middle of the woods, injured
and disoriented. He gets flashes of himself
panicking right before a car crash. Initially,
he thinks he might have dreamt of the crash
but upon spotting the car behind him, it is
clear that something terrible has happened.
The man doesn’t remember how he got there
and starts walking to the nearest town.
On the way, he comes across a car
and tries asking for help. However,
the person swerves it and carelessly stops on the
side of the road. Upon checking, he sees that the
driver is dead. Her eyes have turned foggy as
if the cause of the death is a disease. The
man immediately gets her phone and calls 911.
The operator inquires about his emergency before
asking him his name and location. Only then does
the guy realize that he doesn’t remember a single
thing about himself. He doesn’t even know if he
has a name or a family member. He hangs up the
call in confusion and brings his wallet out.
His driver’s license says he has no name
which confuses him even more. As he
contemplates what he should do next,
a dead crow falls on the car’s roof. Its eye
is also hazy like that of the dead woman.
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The man ignores it and makes his way
towards the nearest town. He finally
arrives at a diner but inside, everyone is
dead and their eyes are foggy. He freaks out,
assuming the deaths are caused by some contagious
virus. He rushes outside just in time to
witness another death of a truck driver.
He quickly covers his nose and gets a map from
the diner before making his way to the address
written on his driver’s license. A while later,
he reaches a house that might belong to him.
At first, he knocks on the door and when no
one opens the door, he decides to break in.
After listening to the voicemail set on his phone,
he recognizes his voice and is finally
sure that the house belongs to him.
He also finds out his name is Liam.
Still confused, Liam cleans up and turns
the TV on. The deaths he witnessed earlier
are being investigated at the national level.
Experts speculate it to be biological warfare
or a naturally created deadly virus. Either way,
people are advised to stay home.
Liam notices a man working nearby
in the field and tells him it is not safe
outside. The person doesn’t make out what
he is saying and walks toward him. Suddenly,
his eyes turn foggy and he falls dead.
Liam is not brave enough to go outside, hence,
instead, he writes what he knows about the deaths
and stays home. He keeps up with the news and
figures out that the deaths are heavily localized
for it to be a virus. In fact, every death
that occurred has been near or around him.
Then, he hears a crow cawing and goes outside
to check. When he gets closer to the bird,
it dies the same death that Liam has been
witnessing till now. At this instant, a
wild theory comes to his mind. He believes that he
might be the cause of the deaths as everyone who
died was around him. He doesn’t want to test the
theory because that means more people would die.
At first, Liam contemplates calling the police and
telling them everything but the question remains
if they will believe him. Even if they do, he will
probably be the subject of strange experiments.
So, Liam decides to take care of the matter on
his own. He gathers food and supplies and locks
himself in the garage near his house. Later
that day, the police come looking for him
because his car was found crashed in the woods.
Liam runs outside to hide as far away from them as
possible. One of the officers almost catches him
but is stopped when birds fall dead in front of
her. They run away immediately after realizing
the unexplained deaths are occurring again.
At night, Liam dreams of the car crash and
wakes up to find a woman in his driveway.
She hears him in the garage and comes closer.
Liam warns her to stay away but she doesn’t
listen. A while later, he opens the door, and
surprisingly enough, the woman is still alive.
She reveals that her name is Jane. She doesn’t
remember anything else about herself since this
morning when she woke up in a hospital. The
staff told her that she was in a car crash
and the car belonged to him. Hence, she
is here to ask him if he knows her.
Both of them are as surprised as each other. They
remember glimpses of the crash but do not know
what caused it and why they were together. As they
talk, a puppy approaches Liam and doesn’t die.
This makes him believe that he is not the center
of the deaths. He doesn’t tell Jane about his
theory and the two go to his house together.
They try to figure out if they live together but
it seems like Liam lives on his own. Suddenly, he
looks at her reflection and remembers her getting
inside his car on the day the accident occurred.
This gives him an idea and he quickly opens
the map. They find a bridge near the place they
crashed and decide to go there to investigate.
The following morning, they go to the said place
but neither of them associates any memory with it.
Jane reveals that the only thing she remembers
from her past is going to the mall with her
family as a child. Liam thinks it is a good
thing because this would mean she still has
a chance of remembering other incidents.
Just then, another epiphany comes to Jane.
One night, she was on the bridge looking at
a blank paper in her hands. She threw it in
the water and Liam was also beside her.
The duo doesn’t know what to think of it
but they are not ready to give up yet. They go to
the crash site to see if it brings more memories.
On reaching the place, they find a huge black
circle on the ground. As they had expected,
seeing the circle makes them remember more
glimpses from the night. They know they were
standing on the opposite side of the circle
facing each other after the accident.
Liam also thinks that the radius of the circle
is the rage of his curse. He tells Jane that
the deaths started with him and how they stopped
after he met her. Jane panics and refuses to work
with him anymore, afraid for her life.
She tries running away as he follows her.
They stop when a car pulls over and a woman
comes out of it, introducing herself as a cop.
She recognizes Liam as the guy whose car they
found in the woods. As she keeps him busy,
Jane runs away. Just when she is
far enough, the cop falls dead.
It is clear that Jane acts as an antidote to
Liam’s curse. Whenever she is around, no one dies
but as soon as she is away from him, the
unexplained deaths occur.
To prove the theory, Liam brings Jane to a field
with a goat and asks her to walk away slowly.
When she is outside the radius, the animal
dies, making her believe that Liam is right.
Following that, the duo goes to the hospital to
get an MRI scan. They believe the results will
tell them what is causing the deaths. They stay
close to each other throughout the procedure but
in the end, the results say they are normal.
At the same time, they hear Liam’s name on
the news. The police have found the
cop’s and the farmer’s dead bodies
and related the murders to him. The duo knows if
he is arrested, more people will be killed.
Upon realizing the cops are already at the
hospital, they quickly run to the elevator.
Liam gets inside but Jane is distracted by the
missing person posters on the wall. It makes
her recall that the paper she was looking at
on the bridge was not blank. It was a missing
person poster with a picture of herself.
Back in the present, Liam loses Jane and
dreadfully gets ready to witness more deaths. He
tells the people with him to run outside as fast
as they can when the elevator door opens. They do
as told and Jane comes to him at the same time.
Thankfully, no one is killed in the incident.
Following that, they drive to a fenced property
and spend the night in the car. Liam again
wakes up from the nightmare of the crash.
A while later, Jane listens to the news
on the radio. The police have found
out that she is with Liam too. Her
husband Sam is at a report conference
begging her to come back. Jane is shocked
because she didn’t know she was married.
They go to meet him in private and
convince him to help them. Initially,
the guy doesn’t believe the two but when Liam
demonstrates his curse by killing some birds,
Sam has no way but to believe them.
The three go to his office where they can hide
for a while. There, Liam finds a missing person’s
poster that Jane was holding in her memory. It has
her picture but the name of a different girl.
Sam explains Jane’s real name is Rose and the
girl in the picture is her twin sister Lily. She
went missing a few months ago and never came back.
Her disappearance caused Jane to fall into
a spiral of depression. She was too obsessed
with finding out where Lily went which caused an
argument between her and Sam. This is when she
left a few days ago and came back only today.
The story fills a huge gap in Jane’s memory,
making her remember more things. That
night, she gave up on looking for her sister
and was about to commit the unthinkable on the
bridge. Liam found her and saved her life. They
were driving somewhere away from the bridge
when the accident happened. She tells Liam
that he saved her life and thanks him.
Later, Sam finds her sleeping on Liam’s lap
and gets jealous. He calls the police but
regrets it instantly. When the cops arrive,
they separate Liam and Jane, causing their own
deaths and the deaths of the pedestrians nearby.
After everyone dies, Sam asks the duo to run away,
promising that he will take care of things.
By now, Liam has an idea of where they were
going after the crash. He thinks they were
driving to a secluded cabin he owns.
They stop at a gas station where a news
broadcast catches their attention. On the night
of the crash, an unexplained cosmic anomaly
struck the Earth at the exact spot
where they had the accident.
The duo believes it might be the cause
of the strange things happening to them
but have no way to prove it.
In the following scene, they arrive
at the cabin that is near a lake. They chat for a
long time about their future and everything that
has happened till now. Even if they convince the
authorities that the cosmic anomaly was the cause
of the deaths, what then? They will have to be
confined and kept together for their entire lives.
Liam thinks it is unfair to Jane since she
will be his babysitter but Jane claims that
she won’t mind living a life like that.
Since the cabin is far from the nearest town,
Liam can stay away from her without
killing anyone. He goes to the lake nearby
and gets on a boat. At the same time,
Jane finds a journal in the fireplace.
Inside it are several missing person posters
with a detailed note about the person.
Jane skims through it and finds her sister’s
missing poster in the end. Then, there is her
real name written on the top of the next page.
It is finally revealed that Liam is a serial
killer who kidnaps and kills women. He is on
the boat getting the same flashback as Jane.
He realizes the truth and remembers how he killed
Jane’s sister and threw her body into the water.
He was about to do the same with Jane as well.
That night when they were driving to the cabin,
Jane noticed he was trying to sedate her. They
got into an altercation which caused the crash.
However, both of them got out of the car unharmed.
When they were outside, the cosmic incident
occurred and trapped them inside dome-shaped
energy. They do not remember what happened after
but the pieces have finally come together.
Liam comes outside the lake and vomits at the
thought of the horrible things he
did when he was his former self.
Suddenly, Jane arrives with a gun and asks
him to bring her sister back from the lake.
She is about to kill him but cannot get herself
to do it. They return to the cabin and find
a bunch of men outside. The group thinks
they are terrorists and attacks them.
Liam runs away a bit further and kills two
of the thugs. Meanwhile, the last one panics
and shoots Jane. He also dies a while later
but Jane is severely hurt in the process.
Liam rushes her to the hospital and
watches the doctors take her away.
He no longer resonates with the serial killer he
was and feels disgusted with himself for what he
did in the past. In the end, he commits the
unthinkable to prevent any other deaths.
Thank You.
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