Grotesque

Jedidiah 2022-03-18 09:01:02

People’s fear comes from their own hearts, combined with the widespread concern about AIDS in the 1980s and the social problems that people have caused, the audience seems to have seen a scene of apocalyptic prophecies through "Strange Shapes", whether it is imagining the alien creatures in the film as AIDS Fortunately, it is still other fatal infectious diseases. The film reflects the relationship between AIDS patients and us in reality through the relationship between the strange shape and normal humans. Whether you have the courage to overcome your inner fear and continue to maintain normal interpersonal relationships. Communication, the film is like a mirror, which also casts our own shadow on the strange shape. With the struggle of human nature and self-torture, facing the blurred true face of the strange shape, is it an alien or ourselves? And the desperate ending-claustrophobic space and mimicry reproduction, as long as it is stained with a little weird DNA, it may be copied, and the intensified special effects have created this dystopian classic.

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Extended Reading
  • Wayne 2022-03-24 09:01:10

    story-driven, tension, special effects.

  • Stan 2022-03-21 09:01:09

    The movie with the most disgusting picture I've ever seen. From the point of view of today’s point of view, the techniques from the plot soundtrack to the suspense setting of photography and mirroring are not very clever. To say that the message is the McCarthyism that is universal for this kind of film. The story is also general, the characters have no character and arc at all.

The Thing quotes

  • MacReady: Childs, we're goin' out to give Blair the test. If he tries to make it back here and we're not with him... burn him.

  • Garry: My God, what was happening to him?

    MacReady: If it had more time to finish, it would have looked and sounded and acted just like Bennings!

    Garry: I don't know what you're saying.

    MacReady: That was one of those things out there trying to imitate him, Garry. C'mon.

    Garry: MacReady, I know Bennings. I've known him for ten years. He's my friend.

    MacReady: We gotta burn the rest of 'em.