DIVERSE POSITION
This story is quite unique. It has many symbols throughout it and definitely represents the perspectives of majoritarian culture. First, I feel the Preserve represented a prison where the humans could roam freely, yet the Tlic were always watching. The humans were governed by rules made by the majority, the Tlics. At first it seemed like the humans tried to reject the Tlic's plans, but they eventually succumbed. A dominant issue addressed in this story was human gender relationships. The idea of females implanting eggs into males and men suffering the pain of childbearing was very scary to me because I am a male! To think that something alien would be growing inside of me and once it was "born" I would have served my purpose and been disposed of is a horrible thought. It is also disturbing for me to think that humans weren't allowed to make decisions for themselves and that their destiny had been decided by another life form who used the humans in order to survive.
A love theme is also present. First T'Gatoi feels love toward her human family and wants them to be safe and happy, but on the other hand, she knows what she has to do in order to survive and nothing will get in her way. A sensitive and deep relationship develops between Gan and T'Gatoi. Even though the relationship started out as a brother/sister type, it grows into an emotional experience. It is a love between two very different beings.
Lastly, this story seems to hint towards the issue of slavery where the Tlic insects are the masters in control and the humans are the so-called slaves. The humans are forced to keep their hosts to survive. The humans have no say in the matter and must endure sometimes extreme suffering and pain for the Tlics. I feel that this story should be made into a Sci-Fi movie. It would be really neat. As I read the story, the author made it so graphic that I could actually envision the scenes. I found some of the scenes to be very disturbing and disgusting, but it helped create the setting and the author got her points across well.
Movie: MONSTERS (2010)
I watched this movie and found that it possessed several themes. The first being and invasion of alien troops around the Mexico area. The second, a political theme that saw the United States government building a wall to keep out the aliens. Just to let you know, it doesn't work. The treatment of the aliens symbolizes the way the government treats and responds to refugees, illegal immigrants, and the relations with Mexico. The third was a relationship/romantic drama. The majority of the film seemed to focus on the growing feelings that the two humans have for each other, while they are trying to get through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. borders. Some areas in this film have a post-apocalyptic feel. There isn't a lot of alien action in the film, but you know that they exist.
The one thing that I took away from this movie was that the the aliens were just trying to exist on the Earth just like us. The scene that showed this was at the end of the movie when two aliens appeared seemingly to attack, but instead just communicated with each other peacefully and in a non-threatening way. The movie for me was just O.K. I have seen better.
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