Color Out of Space

Color Out of Space Feb 29, 2020 19:15:14 GMT

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Post by moviemouth on Feb 29, 2020 19:15:14 GMT

Feb 29, 2020 19:03:42 GMT @cat said:

Feb 29, 2020 18:54:09 GMT moviemouth said:

Interesting. I didn't come to that conclusion at all and I still don't because the color is already a part of the meteor before it even comes in contact with the stuff around it. I saw it as just being about an entity that transforms and destroys and the color is the radiation that is causing the stuff that is happening. I agree that the point is to fire up the imagination about the unknown in the universe and the movie is effective in that regard.

It was my prevailing interpretation until I looked it up to be sure, but I never got around to looking it up. I thought it'd be more fun to just wallow in interpretation. I couldn't tell if it sought color or brought color with it. There's the one part where it seems like the shape of the daughters self-mutilation is channeling the force because it's the same shape as a citadel on the planet from which it came, but I don't know if that means the organism is parasitic, bacterial, viral...sentient.

I don't think it's sentient...yet. I mean it's horror right, not even science fiction. There's no moral spin on the organism's right to survive or escaping its home planet. It's not completely clear if it's a form of viral warfare, or the foot soldiers like the first several monsters in Pacific Rim; in theory it's just an organism that exists. It's not even clear to me if it survived; it might have gorged on the color in the are surrounding the farm and ate itself to death. Or it could still be working.

I never read the story, but that's my interpretation thus far.

You are overthinking it imo.

I don't think it is anything but some kind of space organism or something like that. For me it isn't important what it is, but what it is capable of.

I didn't like the movie (in large part because I didn't care at all about the people it is happening to), but I like the idea. I'm planning to read the short story soon.