What was with the necklace in Super 8?
I loved the movie Super 8 but there is one thing I've always kind of wondered about and never really come up with a good answer to. When the space ship is gathering all the metal so it can restructure itself, it starts to pull Joe's necklace from his mom up and he holds onto it for a while but in the end lets it go. I could be mistaken, but I always had the impression that this last piece is what finally allows the ship to take off.
Was the necklace literally needed for the ship to be complete? And if so why? And if not, then it must've had some symbolic meaning.
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The locket wasn't needed to complete the ship, but it's symbolic in that it shows Joe is finally willing to let the past go and embrace his future without his mom.
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Answer 2
If I remember correctly, when the alien had Joe in his arms, he told it something to the effect of that he knew a lot of bad things happened to it, but that it needed to let it go or something to that effect. So when the alien was drawing metal to the ship, it specifically chose the necklace as a way of saying the same thing to Joe.
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