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Fridge Brilliance:

• Since this is a found footage movie it seems strange to have so many POV's from cameras that don't survive the movie... Until you realize the military has confiscated and pieced together this whole thing trying to figure out how the kids got powers and tore apart the city. The camera that gets buried in the cave in? The camera in the hospital that the police set up, Andrew's camera from the robbery, all could be found by following the video breadcrumbs that Andrew leaves behind from other cameras.
  • An extension of this: Matt helped find the footage and put together the final cut. How else would they find the camera he left in the fricking Himalayas? He found the material Andrew already shot and put together on his computer (which Andrew was shown working on) and got as much as he could find, and included his own. Why? Matt wants answers, and he probably went to the government with this footage to find them. Not only does this explain the Himalayas scene, but also why a supposed military film would bother including such personal footage from before and after the incident. Matt wanted to show a sympathetic portrayal of his friends, so that they wouldn't think they were just some superpowered freaks, but kids that could have been helped.
• Why does Andrew continue to fight Matt at the end of the film? Stop and consider what Andrew repeats throughout the fight, that he is an Apex Predator. What do most Apex Predators do when they are challenged by another one of their kind? They fight in order to establish dominance. Andrew sees Matts stubborn refusal to get out of his way as challenging him for the role of the Alpha male.
• Is Andrew really stronger than the other boys with his powers? Or is his constant use of his powers to hold the camera whilst doing other things (while Steve and Matt always hold the camera with their hands) just exercising his limits more than the other boys?
  • In the rooftop scene, Steve pretty much confirms this when he states Andrew has more fine control than he does, having smashed his keyboard when trying to type his name.
• Andrew's dad isn't abusive and blaming Andrew for his mother's death just because he's an alcoholic Jerkass. He is jealous of Andrew, and becomes more so as the film progresses. Especially the scene before the talent show, when he says that Andrew is up to something because he is "skulking in and out of my house, smiling." This guy lost his job, can barely make ends meet, and has a family to take care of. On top of that, his wife is fairly ill and her care is taking all of his time and attention, to the point where he only has the energy to wallow in his own drunkeness. he has resigned himself to his lot in life as a miserable drunkard, and only finds satisfaction in knowing that Andrew (who he projects his guilt onto) is just as miserable and depressed as he is. But the combination of Andrew's being a high school senior plus his new social life outside the house means that he might leave, leaving his dad all alone with a dying wife and his own self-loathing. No Andrew means no physical and emotional punching bag to work out his frustrations on. That is why he goes through such lengths to break Andrew down with the later Hannibal Lecture. He doesn't want any more radical change in his life, and he definitely doesn't want Andrew (again, the person he blames for everything) to actually be happier than he is.
• The powers (or rather, the order in which they are manifested) shows a bit of Personality Powers. Andrew, the loner who wants to be stronger and actively pushes people away, develops his telekinesis control faster than the others. Steve, the optimistic and idealistic one who is the most eager to try "big" things first, often has his "head in the clouds" (his high ideals blinding him to danger) and is the first to fly. Matt wants to be unique and and tries to separate himself from the masses through his pseudo-philosophy, so he not only is shown with the force field first, but has the hardest time learning new abilities because he doesn't want to be just like Andrew and Steve.
• Listen to the words Andrew's father is saying in the hospital again. He's not blaming Andrew for his mother's death. He's blaming Andrew for his not being there as she died, because he was out looking for his son after he took off & mugged the local thugs before robbing (And blowing up) a gas station, when he should've been at his wife's bedside as she died. He doesn't blame Andrew for his wife's death, he blames him for her dying alone.

Fridge Horror

• Matthew was not made aware of his uncle's abusive behavior towards his cousin before having to kill Andrew. It is possible Andrew viewed Matt's rescue as support of his uncle's abuse. Such a gross betrayal on top of everything else Andrew had been through might turn anybody into an Omnicidal Maniac.

Fridge Logic

• The kids never compare themselves to, say, Peter Parker or the Fantastic Four, and no one uses the words "superpower" or "superhero". It's next to impossible that the boys, having lived all their lives in America, with normal access to TV, cinema, etc., have no concept of superheroes or have never been exposed to any form of superhero media. Perhaps they simply don't exist on this Earth?
  • Maybe they just don't pay much attention to comics and the like. Andrew's a shut-in, Steve's probably preoccupied with his school work, student government campaign, and football practice, and we don't know Matt's hobbies.
  • It does raise a similar question: why no references to Star Wars beyond the red lightsaber toy? You think they would relish the idea of comparing themselves to Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader, and the story does pretty parallel Yoda's speech about fear leading to suffering. Maybe they weren't allowed to make too many outside references to avoid legal attention?
• What was Andrew doing in the time between blowing up the hospital room and trying to throw his father out? There was enough time for the news crews to begin filming and broadcasting it and Matt driving to downtown Seattle from the suburbs, getting around several police roadblock already in place. That must have taken Matt an hour at least, when you'd expect Andrew to do his thing in seconds.
  • Well, It is down town, so the news crews could have already been there. Maybe (its possible there was a slow news day) they were reporting on Andrew's earlier robbery. As for Matt, we don't know where his girlfriend's house was in relation to the hospital, or when his nose started to bleed. its possible it started before Andrew's father arrived. Some of the scenes are probably out of exact order so they would make sense to the viewer.
  • It seems that the explosion happened while Andrew was unconscious. It could be that, for a while, he was still out of it. Only when the noises of the sirens and helicopters grew (or Matt arriving on the scene) did he wake up. He then saw his father lying next to him, flew into a rage and zipped out the hole in the side of the building.