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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The Thing quotes

  • Fuchs: [whispering] I have to talk to you.

    MacReady: I'm tired of talkin', Fuchs. I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk.

    Fuchs: Mac, it's important.

    MacReady: What is it?

    Fuchs: Outside.

    MacReady: It's 40 below zero outside.

  • MacReady: I don't know. Thousands of years ago it crashes, and this thing... gets thrown out, or crawls out, and it ends up freezing in the ice.

    Childs: I just cannot believe any of this voodoo bullshit.

    Palmer: Childs, happens all the time, man. They're falling out of the skies like flies. Government knows all about it, right, Mac?

    Childs: You believe any of this voodoo bullshit, Blair?

    Palmer: Childs, Childs... Chariots of the Gods, man. They practically own South America. I mean, they taught the Incas everything they know.

    Garry: So, come on now, MacReady, Norwegians get ahold of this... and they dig it up out of the ice.

    MacReady: Yes, Garry, they dig it up, they cart it back, it gets thawed out, it wakes up... probably not the best of moods... I don't know, I wasn't there!

    Nauls: [skates in with ripped long johns] Which one of you disrespectful men been tossing his dirty drawers in the kitchen trash can, huh? From now, I want my kitchen clean, all right? Germ free!

    Childs: So how's this motherfucker wake up after thousands of years in the ice?

    George Bennings: And how can it look like a dog?

    MacReady: I don't know how. 'Cause it's different than us, see? 'Cause it's from outer space. What do you want from me? Ask him!

    [motions to Blair]

    Childs: You buy any of this Blair?