Just tell me how you feel about this movie.
It's not so much a monster movie as it's a movie about people on the fringes. Rather than the movie being about the heroine's love with a monster, it's about the love between two fringe people.
The monster in the film is not the low-IQ or brutal cold-blooded monster we usually see in movies, but an amphibious species with high intelligence, high autonomy, breathing in water, and walking on land. Rather than calling it a "monster", it would be more accurate to call it a "xenogeneic". This alien is a rare species that has coexisted with human beings on the earth for a long time. It has been isolated from human society for a long time (living in the wild areas of South America), so its existence is very marginal to human society.
The heroine of the film, Eliza, works in a collective environment, but she doesn't show any sense of collective belonging - she just does her own thing silently, hardly communicates with others, just passively listens With colleague Zelda chattering about his family chores. When she got home from get off work, she passively acted as the confidant of her roommate Giles. She is always passive in her relationship with the other. She never intervenes in anyone's affairs. She loves music, dances, fantasies, and masturbates in a tub full of water. She always masturbates in the morning, and she uses an egg timer before masturbating to avoid being late for work. It can be seen that she is very indulging in morning masturbation, just like practicing a ritual on time every day. She seems to enjoy being alone, enjoying being alone, without showing emptiness and pain. But in the monotonous life day after day, she must be lonely deep in her heart, otherwise she wouldn't be able to reach out and touch the big water tank containing the aliens for the first time. It can be seen from this detail that she has a strong curiosity, and she is eager for new things to bring a little excitement to her monotonous life. This desire covered her fear, or occupied her fear, so she dared to sit directly by the pool where the aliens were, and when the aliens emerged from the water and roared, she didn't show much fear. Ordinary people are afraid to come into close contact with unknown aliens like this, and even if they are very interested in them, they will be more careful when approaching. But Eliza approached so easily, as easily as meeting an old friend, as if she didn't know what "scared" was all about. Her easy approach also easily gained the trust of aliens - aliens and her eat eggs and listen to vinyl records together. Aliens, like her, can't speak. She is no longer the object of others' confidence. She and the aliens achieved the most tacit communication without language. The appearance of a xenogeneic person is weird and even ugly to ordinary people, let alone falling in love with him. But Eliza's eyes when she looked at it clearly revealed such a message - he must be beautiful in her eyes. Her unusual aesthetic should be related to her attachment to water. Xenomorphs live in water, and for Eliza, the beauty of Xenomorphs is largely given by water.
The appearance of aliens made Eliza begin to have an active attitude in life. She took the initiative to approach aliens again and again, brought different records for aliens to listen to, danced to aliens, and in front of aliens she released She realized her purest self, and getting along with aliens became her happiest thing every day. The aliens saw the beauty of human nature in her. Before he was caught in the laboratory, the xenogeneic people had been worshipped by the indigenous people of South America as gods. After being discovered by the military, he was suddenly reduced from a god to an experiment at random. As a god, he saw the humility and awe of human beings; as an experiment, he saw the greed and cruelty of human nature. But he never saw the beauty of human nature, never saw the light of human nature, until he met Eliza. In front of Eliza, for the first time, he was loved equally by human beings—he was no longer a god above, nor an experiment to be dissected, but a life equal to human beings. How could he not be moved by such love?
When the aliens were to be dissected, Eliza actively carried out rescue work. Her proactive attitude has reached an unprecedented level - she is not only involved in the crisis of aliens, but also in highly classified national affairs. She also tried her best to ask Giles for help, and she was even furious when she couldn't get support. A small person who originally enjoyed himself in loneliness and never interfered in the lives of others, was thus involved in national affairs, and had a specific and direct relationship with the background of the international "Cold War". To use a very common saying - this is the power of love.
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