Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2020 19:26:58 GMT
Feb 29, 2020 19:03:42 GMT @cat said:
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.
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.
The coolest stories make me think about the world before and after, and tease me by only showing me a portion of the journey. I think the last thing I'd want to see is a sequel or a prequel. The cool thing in my opinion about a creature/bacteria/force like this is it beckons no logic or explanation, at least not one pinned down by science. I'd say this fits squarely into the horror genre.
Some of the best horror movies I know (this not being one of them, I dug it but you know, it's not like The Exorcist or anything) is whatever supernatural horror thing is happening is incidental. The real story's with the family. The space stuff is just a catalyst for their relationship.