False Positive

Lucy’s reality is fractured by her paranoia and hallucinations, which are fueled by the manipulative and illegal practices of Dr. Hindle. Throughout the film, she becomes increasingly unsure of what is real and what is imagined. Ultimately, she discovers that Hindle had secretly terminated her daughter, Wendy, because Hindle believed her embryos—particularly the female one—were superior for his own dark purposes. His obsession with creating a lineage of “superior” offspring led him to play God, killing the girl embryo to ensure only the male twins remained.

As Lucy unravels the truth, she confronts Hindle and gets into a violent altercation, during which she thrashes him unconscious. Her mental state continues to deteriorate as her grief and anger intensify. She takes her daughter’s embryo and, in her hallucination, drops the twins out of a window, symbolically getting rid of Hindle’s manipulations and the trauma inflicted upon her. Interestingly, in her mind, the twins fly away like Peter Pan, representing her desire to free herself from control and guilt.

The film ends with Lucy caring for her daughter’s embryo—an act that signifies her ongoing connection to her lost child and her unresolved grief. Her hallucinations of Wendy’s movement suggest she might never fully let go of her guilt and sorrow. The ending leaves viewers pondering whether Lucy’s descent into hallucination is a form of psychological escape or a tragic reflection of her inability to accept the horrifying truth—that Hindle’s experiments and her own trauma have permanently altered her perception of reality. Ultimately, her mental breakdown symbolizes her fight against a corrupt, godlike figure and her struggle to regain her autonomy in a world manipulated by power and deception.

Last Updated: June 25, 2025 at 08:59