Perfect for anyone with the attention span for a slow burn thriller.
I don't understand how people don't understand the ending, or think that it's ambiguous. How much more spoon fed do you need it to be?
Peace.
That had not occurred to us, Dude.
Yeah, I enjoyed it too. I found it captivating. I hope I don't behave that way when I fall in love. Ick. Also, I was frustrated that he kept asking her what was happening to her and she would never tell him. Extreme case of denial, fear and selfishness haha. Great acting. I do think the ending is a little ambiguous because I don't agree with the primary explanation most viewers seem to have deduced. I won't spoil the film with my interpretation of the ending, though it's still in the realm of sci-fi.
Actually, I would very much like to hear your thoughts on the matter. Seeing as how I thought it was pretty straight forward, I'd be interested to see if there was something I may have missed.
Peace.
That had not occurred to us, Dude.
Well, from the start of the film - based on my best recollection - I always thought there was some insect theme. And then I thought there was some kind of Loch Ness monster theme happening due to the lake. Throughout the film I realised that are she was discovered in the wood, something had either entered her body or something.
I didn't think that extraterrestrial beings were involved. Because the wife mentioned once about not hurting ants, and there appeared to be an insect theme throughout the film and I interpreted that to mean that there was a creature in the woods or by the lake/in the lake. And then I though, it couldn't live in the lake because she wanted to hide her husband in the lake. But that's just crazy, she must have been losing her mind quite severely by that point, because humans can't survive under water. Plus when she was physically changing appearance, she looked scaly, like a snake, serpent, lizard, or insect.
I have read on here that some people think it's ET related because of the light shining through the window. Personally, I think that's some mating call or hypnotic draw to attract females. Meh.
See how I can't be sure of anything really. That's why I found it ambiguous. What are your thoughts?
Well, I don't know whether the being or beings were ET or not, but there is definitely something to the reptile/amphibian thing. The screenplay made a point of demonstrating how Bea had no problem killing or harming frogs when she told the story about how she and her dad would use frogs as bait, and she even took pleasure in freaking out her husband in relating how the frogs would scream when hooked. Then, just a day or two later, she doesn't find his joke about eating the frog he caught to be funny at all. That was one of the first signs of her mind starting to be controlled by the alien consciousness, and that, maybe, that consciousness was somewhat reptilian in nature.
So, yeah, I'd say that the force was either a primal, animal force in the woods, or, if it was an ET presence, then it/they were somewhat reptilian in nature. I don't think that it really matters which one it is.
Then Bea says, or rather the alien voice says through her, that they have no use for the males of the species, the women are what was needed to reproduce. The men are superfluous, which is why they twisted her mind to think that she was "saving" her husband when really she was just murdering him. Her husband(and the husband of their neighbor)was just in the way. So, they had the women get rid of them by "hiding" them.
There is also certainly a subtext there about marrying someone only to find out that you don't know them at all, and further subtext about fear of pregnancy and childbirth, but I think those things are merely tools to help stoke fear, as those fears are very basic and common human concerns. However, those aspects are hardly the main point of the film. One could ignore all of that, just take the film as a straight ahead sci-fi thriller/horror flick and still come away quite satisfied with the experience.
Anyway, I guess the exact nature of the force may have been a bit ambiguous, but, as I said above, it's also irrelevant. Whatever it was, it's intent wasn't ambiguous at all.
Peace.
That had not occurred to us, Dude.
I agree, the moths, ants and frogs all seemed to be pointing towards that, although hooking the worm kind of gets in the way maybe? But one thing I was waiting for was when he brought up the lights and she was shocked, I was hoping she was going to freak out and then explain, "Someone said the same thing back when Will and I were kids, that's why we became friends," which would have made a nice "they came back for us" scenario.
shareI agree, I really enjoyed this movie. As horror it was exactly my cup of java; I like slow-burn, eerie, creepy, mysterious, and this was excellently done.
This film isn't deep.
It's symbolism everywhere (subjectively of course) because it didn't give ANY details to narrow the exact organisms responsible for Bea's morphing.
that is NECESSARY because the film gave such little information.
Basically:
1) Bea was impregnated in the woods by UNKNOWN assailants.
2) Bea began to change the way she behaved (first), and then her body began to change (second).
3) Bea changed into something that looked inhuman which would lead ANY logical individual to point toward the reasoning behind possibly...
a) Aliens (organisms from another planet with different DNA than our own world)
b) Experiment by the government (virus instilled in Bea etc.)
c) OTHER EARTHLY creatures with enough intelligence to plot in this manner to convert humans in the forest into other variants
Now, since there was evidence of SPERM in the woods after the nightgown was discovered we can rule out the possibility of her changing of mind/body being due to an injected PARASITE.
The sperm ALONE proves it was a sexual cause and that Bea was in fact PREGNANT with another organisms offspring.
Of course, as I said previously, there's a possibility it was humans who did this to her. I mean, you could see their silhouettes were humanoid.
Then again, I haven't seen this flick in a while so I'm probably missing details.
I think Bea said "they are here," which should prove that they are from another WORLD.
I should watch this again to get a more accurate perception :o
A bright light can hollow the deepest of nothingness.
It's an excellent horror movie.
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