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| Oh! Oh. That was not my interpretation at all. (spoilers) by Mischief Maker 08/31/2016, 9:35pm PDT | ||||
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| I didn't see the Aliens as misunderstood or a stand in for any human people at all. Not only are they murdering people left and right, the fact that humans in their vicinity need to wear gas masks indicates that peaceful coexistence is impossible. Add on top of that that the experienced guides were slaughered to a man, the aliens are able to snatch F-15s out of the air, and their glowing eggs were everywhere and it was clear that humanity was fucked. I saw this as an original take on an end of the world movie. Like that Zen Koan about the guy hanging from a cliff by a vine that's about to break grabbing eating a wild strawberry that was growing within reach. The main characters allowed themselves to appreciate the physical beauty of the aliens and steal a kiss in the face of inevitable doom.
To me the underlying political message of the movie was about American exceptionalism. People in Mexico are being murdered by giant aliens but the US still has a closed border policy. That can be used as a metaphor for drug cartel violence, Syrian civil war refugees, or environmental devastation. Two Americans are trapped in Mexico then forced to learn how bad the situation they'd been sheltered from in the states really is. But once they reach that Donald Trump wet dream border wall they learn that the safety of isolationism was an illusion all along. I suppose the fact that they died in the end isn't that bad the more I think about it, but my other comments on how dumb it was to reveal the Aliens in full view bad CG from the start still stand. |
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Monsters by 08/31/2016, 7:05am PDT  I liked this movie a lot (spoilers continue) by 08/31/2016, 6:57pm PDT Oh! Oh. That was not my interpretation at all. (spoilers) by 08/31/2016, 9:35pm PDT (more spoilers) by 09/01/2016, 6:16pm PDT How long do you have to stick with it by 09/01/2016, 7:33am PDT Re: How long do you have to stick with it NT by 09/01/2016, 7:51am PDT if you watch it from beginning to end you will see the good parts NT by 09/01/2016, 6:07pm PDT |
