To answer the first question: yes I do have a definitive answer for how the film is resolved, but I agree with you that it doesn’t need to (or shouldn’t be) answered in the logline.

To your second point about why the aliens need her… this is actually something I’ve been struggling with as well. I want them to need her, but at the same time I agree that it doesn’t make sense logically as they would have already invented the technology and if they have the ability to replace her partner, why don’t they just get him to build it?

Do you (or anyone) have any suggestions for this?

My ideas as possibilities:

1) They want her to implement the technology to drain energy from the earth before taking it form her, and having her believe she invented it will have her do exactly that (although this still doesn’t make sense if they have the ability to replace her co-worker, why don’t they replace her?)

2) Somehow the information on how to develop it has been lost and they only have pieces of it (what they give her) and she needs to fill in the rest of the details… this only works if I can figure out how/why the information has been lost… the only thing I can think of is that they are from the future and travel to the past to gather this information which is how they got it in the first place… but this may be overly complicated..

I’m sure there is a simpler answer, but I haven’t exactly figure it out yet.

Also, thanks dpg for engaging in a discussion about this with me! It is very helpful.

Well, at first she doesn’t understand why the aliens have given her the visions. Then she starts to suspect that the aliens are getting her to build the technology and drain power from the earth in order to bring it back to their home planet. Simultaneously we as the audience (and the protagonist) are also wondering if the alien(s) exist at all or if she is making them up.