The hidden plot behind The Thing.

Lyla 2022-04-19 09:01:47

Viewers who scored 2 stars in the short comment believed that it is possible for a creature with exposed external genitalia to master interstellar travel technology, and the biology that masters this technology should be a highly intelligent civilization.
I think: the creatures discovered by the scientists and their group from the ice are not the monsters themselves, but the mutants of a certain creature A and the monsters fused, just as we can see the fusion and mutation of humans and monsters in the film body. We can imagine a hidden plot. Creature A is an intelligent creature of civilization. It has traveled to a certain planet during interstellar travel. As for why it finally came to the living earth, the monster has actually controlled the spirit of the host before it turned violent, but the monster has the instinct to continue to spread, and the monster controls the host's wisdom to control the host to find a living planet. , so that the monster can continue to breed.

Another thing I want to discuss is whether the male protagonist at the end is infected.
First of all, I think that once the human body comes into contact with the monster, it will start to mutate from the inside in a very short period of time. It can be seen from the victims who were attacked by the monster that it is basically no longer the original person within 1 minute. Therefore, the heroine meets the hero after killing the last monster with a grenade. The hero is either a healthy person, or a "fusion person" whose mind and spirit are controlled by the monster (I'll call it that). There is no situation where the hero is infected without knowing it.
But the heroine always kills the hero in the end, for the reasons explained in the movie.
However, the director is still vague, and the heroine may kill the wrong person. The moment before she killed the male protagonist with a flamethrower, the monster still did not choose to go berserk and mutate. The female protagonist was sitting in the car last alone, and her dazed trance actually implied that the audience female protagonist was also doubting whether she was a manslaughter in the end. , the movie ended at the moment when the heroine was in a daze.
Although the heroine talked about the problem of earrings, let's imagine such a situation.
Before the male protagonist and the female protagonist met for the last time, the male protagonist's earrings all existed, but is there such a possibility that the male protagonist lost the earrings while running/fighting, and the male protagonist sprayed fire on david The musket will temporarily malfunction, and it is normal to drop an earring while running.
Some people want to say, but he did touch the wrong ear, but isn't it easy to make some common sense mistakes when people are exhausted after extreme panic/excitement/fight? It is actually possible for the male protagonist to touch the wrong ear under the circumstances at that time.
Therefore, whether the male protagonist was murdered by mistake in the end is open to question, and both possibilities can be explained.

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The Thing quotes

  • Sam Carter: I wanna know how the Cavaliers are doing?

    Kate Lloyd: Hmm. I don't follow football.

    Sam Carter: It's a basketball team. They play basketball.

    Jameson: Barely. They're the Cavaliers, man.

  • Sam Carter: And the last place you want to be is cooped up with a dozen of Norwegian guys.