Fantastic article Em! I loved your analysis of the ending scene, I feel I now appreciate it more than I did initially. It's jarring but with your explanation of what it all means, it makes more sense in the context of the movie and trilogy!
thanks isaak! the ending has LAYERS, if at least one person who previously went on the internet and said it was stupid and pointless reads my interpretation and likes it a little more then i’m happy😭
I love your reading of the birth scene as a real touchpoint for human empathy in the film Em. I think it has one of the most bizarre displays of sentimentality in the film as its accompanied by the pregnant infected wailing the entire time but it's definitely one of its most striking displays of female companionship too as there's a clear sense of mutual assistance between Isla and the infected she's assisting in the birth. Fantastic review once again, looking forward to reading more!
thank you will! there was just something about the shot of isla breaking through the human side of the infected lady and taking her hands that really touched me and has stayed in my mind since we saw this one. almost like isla was the last piece of humanity in that world which could explain why the next film has described to be much darker in tone.
That’s really interesting to think of Isla as the last of ‘pure humanity’ in spite of the fact that she is clearly now in-tune with the other side because of her condition. Spike leaving Dr Kelson’s settlement also feels like an embrace of the more ambiguous evils that lay outside of it to me.
Fantastic article Em! I loved your analysis of the ending scene, I feel I now appreciate it more than I did initially. It's jarring but with your explanation of what it all means, it makes more sense in the context of the movie and trilogy!
thanks isaak! the ending has LAYERS, if at least one person who previously went on the internet and said it was stupid and pointless reads my interpretation and likes it a little more then i’m happy😭
I love your reading of the birth scene as a real touchpoint for human empathy in the film Em. I think it has one of the most bizarre displays of sentimentality in the film as its accompanied by the pregnant infected wailing the entire time but it's definitely one of its most striking displays of female companionship too as there's a clear sense of mutual assistance between Isla and the infected she's assisting in the birth. Fantastic review once again, looking forward to reading more!
thank you will! there was just something about the shot of isla breaking through the human side of the infected lady and taking her hands that really touched me and has stayed in my mind since we saw this one. almost like isla was the last piece of humanity in that world which could explain why the next film has described to be much darker in tone.
That’s really interesting to think of Isla as the last of ‘pure humanity’ in spite of the fact that she is clearly now in-tune with the other side because of her condition. Spike leaving Dr Kelson’s settlement also feels like an embrace of the more ambiguous evils that lay outside of it to me.