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Different Perspective

posted 7 years ago by redwriter76
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I haven't read the book, so bear with me. Is it possible that the attackers are feeding victims to the weeds in some sort of effort to save themselves? If they sacrifice others then the weeds won't come after them. Yeah, I get the whole quarantine scenario. However, maybe there's some sort of understanding between the locals and the weeds---you bring us the people, we let you live.

[–] DHfilmfan 7 years ago

There's no indication of that in the book. The subtext of this kind of eco-horror genre is the futility of humans' interventions and the 'horror' of nature's adaptability. So to me the idea of the plants and the Mayan descendents working in a symbiotic-cooperative manner seems unlikely, if only because it goes against the larger theme of the book/film.