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It is said that I watched this movie in the cinema last year, and some people left the scene in anger, but I liked the movie very much (this sentence It's a long story), and it was broadcast on TV for the first time a few nights ago (7/23 21:00). A friend who has no concept of the plot asked me, what kind of creature is that on the poster? What kind of movie is this? My answer is like this....
"It was a couple of scientists who illegally mixed the genes of animals and humans to create a monster. As a result, when the monster grew up, he slept with his father and threatened his mother. In the end, he changed from female to male, raped his mother, and was finally beaten to death by his father. At the end of the film, the mother is pregnant with this monster's child, and she is ready to give birth to do research."
Of course, this plot brief without any added jealousy really made friends shy away. Isn't it time to watch a fun and funny movie on weekends? Why don't you watch this inhumane, animal-like story? The reason I rewatched it on TV and still highly recommend it is not just because of the picture that annoys good men and women and defenders, and doesn't know how to define bestiality or inbreeding, of course, there are also good reasons for this.
▶ Is it bestiality or inbreeding?
Let's talk about that shocking scene first. Dren, who was full of girlish feelings, was locked in the barn, had trouble with "mother" Elsa, and learned to use the charm of his young body, so "father" Clive was seduced like this, and then the scene of the two lying naked on the ground was good. Coincidentally, he was caught by Elsa who opened the barn door. Afterwards Elsa accused Clive how could he do such a thing? In addition to apologizing, Clive can only continue to apologize. But what is not clear here is whether he apologized for mating with his "daughter", or for a simple affair? Ethically, Clive is inbreeding, and although Dren is not related to him in any way, Elsa treats it as her own (in fact, she did make Dren out of her own genes). Suppose this relationship is not considered? Dren is just a normal person, and is this just a simple affair? In fact, in terms of species distinction, if the logic of either man or beast makes sense, Clive and Dren are human and beast mating.
Dren has all kinds of animal traits, she has a long tail with poisonous spines, kangaroo-like hind legs, and an amphibian that can breathe on both land and water. But she has all kinds of emotions of dependence, craving, anger, etc. for Elsa and Clive, and will cover her body with her hands in shame the moment she is bumped into the barn. Is Dren a man or a beast? This is a difficult question to define. The two scientists think they can replace God, and the arrogance that dominates the evolution of species assumes that the ear will lead to disaster. In this film, humans are driven by their own curiosity, and God also takes advantage of the situation to put humans in a dilemma, and slaps them in the face with the chaotic and embarrassing scene in the barn.
▶ Are women the real driving force behind evolution?
In fact, if you look closely, you will find that the movie is all about women, and Clive, the seemingly important male protagonist, is strictly a supporting role.
First of all, about this experiment, in fact, Elsa has always been leading. Not only did she privately use her own genes for experiments, but she even regretted her decision to keep the experimental results under the persuasion of Clive several times. In other words, Dren was originally just an experiment, but on the one hand, she did have Elsa's genes (so Elsa kept telling her that the two were one), and on the other hand, Elsa had a strong maternal instinct in her body that she was not aware of. .
At the beginning of the film, the two scientists chatted about the house, Elsa firmly stated that she did not want to have children, because of the shadow of her childhood growth experience, she did not want to repeat the same mistakes (the film did not explicitly say what happened when she was a child). But in the face of the experimental results Dren is about to break out, and faced with several discussions on whether to destroy Dren, she always actively strives to keep her at the last minute. To put it bluntly, this is the maternal potential that she cannot restrain.
The shadow also uses various scenes to expressly imply that Elsa is unable to extricate herself from the role of a mother, including details such as her patient care and companionship with Dren, and treating her like a little daughter. And I think the most important evidence is the scene where Dren was born. At that time, Elsa put her hand into the uterus-like skin, trying to help the little life out, but the little life stabbed her hard, and later caused her to have convulsions. At this time, Clive could only help by the side. This scene of "only Elsa suffers, but not Clive" is just like the human birth process, where the mother first suffers great pain before the child can see the light. The debut of this human-born Dren actually hinted at the inseparable relationship between Elsa and this little life.
The life in paradise that was originally enclosed in the laboratory can be very stable. The important turning point of the story is that the "family of three" returns to the place where Elsa lived as a child. In addition to letting Dren, who is ignorant of the world, come into contact with music, the scenery outside the window, small animals, cosmetics, etc. Let the dark clouds that cast Elsa's childhood shadows reappear. Although we still don't know for sure (at least I don't see it) what happened to Elsa when she was a child, Clive in the play keeps suggesting "your family history...", it seems to be the family where Elsa lived when she was a child. injury and the like. And this film that discusses genes, subtly makes Dren return to the place where "mother" lived when he was a child, as if to make the memory in the space summon the resonance that exists in the genes. Dren's rape of Elsa after transgender is another kind of Domestic violence against close relatives.
At this point, it seems that we can start trying to focus on the transgender factor.
A few years ago, a technology was developed to convert female bone marrow stem cells into sperm. It seems that through technical conversion, the originally female bone marrow stem cells have the opportunity to be converted into male sperm. This technology can't help but remind me of another group of experimental subjects in the film, Fred and Ginger. These two "organizations" were originally a male and a female, so they could not be right. I didn't expect Ginger to suddenly turn into a male. Same-sex Freds kill each other. This female-to-male transgender process also presupposes the trend of the ending: Dren turns from female to male, kills each other with Clive of the same sex, and develops desire for Elsa of the opposite sex.
Assuming that the above-mentioned technology of producing sperm from female stem cells is mature, males are likely to be redundant in the reproduction process in the future, which implies that women are really important in reproduction, and may even be relatively dominant in the future. In this movie, everyone is dead except Elsa, who survives with Dren's child in her belly. She agreed to accept the quid pro quo from the owner of the pharmaceutical factory and decided to give birth to a child for the experiment. In the end, the two women stood together in front of the dark window and looked into the distance, not exactly as if to imply that on the way of species evolution, the future will be shouldered by women. Should we step forward together? However, the surging sky outside the window tells us that the future of mankind created by scientific and technological exploration is still in an unknown state, and it is probably not optimistic.
▶ It's all the fault of nerds
The name Dren came up when Elsa and Dren were playing Scrabble, and the little girl was clever enough to reverse spell the word Nerd on her mother's T-shirt. This Nerd in the film is the abbreviation of Nucleic Exchange Research & Development, a biotechnology unit of a pharmaceutical factory, and also means "nerd", a bit like the word "house" (お屋) in Japanese. A person who may have no common sense about life. The name Dren seems to be accusing the culprit of this storm, which is actually these nerds. This group of scientists who bury their heads in their research labs is superstitious about the infinite possibilities of science, but ignores social ethics and the great dangers that come with exploration, and inadvertently commits big mistakes that affect evolution.
This story has no time and space background, I don't know when and where, but it is like a terrible fable that could happen in any country. Nowadays, almost every country capable of developing high-tech industries is trying to expand the field of biotechnology. However, many movies and novels can always foresee the superstition of science for human beings a few steps earlier, ignoring the disaster that may occur after the lack of human relations. Dren in "Artificial Evolution" is the product of genetic engineering myths that will appear, or a tragic product that has already appeared long ago. God's slap in the face with Dren's response really made humans blush and embarrassed.
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