When I first read it, I didn't know why, but later I felt shivering at the little meaning I figured out.
The heroine chopped down the "housing agency" with a shovel, and the "intermediary" showed instinct in panic, threw away the human disguise, and quickly opened the sidewalk to escape underground like a cockroach on all fours. The heroine held the entrance with a shovel and also got in. In the underground world, she kept falling, passing through small rooms with different background colors, with humans similar to her encounters, and finally fell back to her green house.
According to the director's speech, this underground world is another space that exists at the same time, and the heroine and this space are not of the same attribute, so in the end she was pushed out again.
And this whole, uniformly repeated to terrifying pale green community itself is a separate dimension from the human world. In the concept designed by the director, these "real estate agents" are "monsters" that coexist with humans. For some reason, they need to be nurtured by human beings. In the process of being nurtured by human beings, they observe human beings, imitate human beings, enter the human world as adults, lure new human beings into the community, and continue to raise the next generation.
At the beginning of the film, there is a scene where the cuckoo lays its eggs in the bird's nest, killing the chicks so that the birds can feed their offspring. This point has already shown that this is a story of a dove occupying a magpie's nest.
Doves occupying magpie nests is also an extremely common phenomenon in nature. Among them, the most widely distributed and most directly related to humans is probably the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma gondii can only reproduce in the body of the final host feline. In the process of going through the intermediate host, Toxoplasma gondii will exert its greatest influence on the host to achieve its own reproductive purpose. Studies have shown that mice infected with Toxoplasma have permanent changes in their brains and even their behavior. The mice lose their fear of cats and are even attracted to the smell of cat urine. In this way, through the manipulation of the intermediate host, Toxoplasma gondii successfully completed its journey to the final host (in addition, some studies have shown that Toxoplasma gondii can even have an impact on human brain, personality and behavior. The data comes from the Internet, without verification, the feeling is interest can be searched). In addition, there are countless examples in nature of parasites controlling the host's brain, madly sucking the host's nutrients, and turning the host into a "zombie", so I won't go into details here.
Parasites can be "monsters" in the director's concept, or parasites. This is tangible. In fact, can't invisible thoughts also become the same parasites?
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