Quote (JudgeTedd @ Mar 13 2018 01:35am)
comment i read on reddit that perfectly describes the movie, i thought the movie was amazing and even better after fully understanding it
The scream bear scene is where the major metaphor dawned on me. The shimmer is cancer (obviously) but the characters all represent different approaches to dealing with it. The scream bear represents the how people remember someone suffering through chemo. Her character had lost a daughter to leukemia and mentioned how it basically killed her former self. She represents fighting and losing painfully, dying in misery and your family and friend’s memory of you is forever replaced by your final pain. The physicist represented those who chose not to fight and suffer. Ultimately she dies, but without pain, and peacefully and she leaves behind a pleasant memory. The psychologist represents the psychologic trauma and depression that cancer victims have. The EMT represents denial. She accuses the others of inventing the bear, and just wants to “go back” but there is no going back. Additionally, she has a substance abuse past, probably a call to those who turn to addiction or self medicating. The biologist represents intellecualizing the situation. A defense mechanism where people just try to keep gathering information, and think if they can understand it, they can regain control.
When she escapes, she is kept in isolation, a common thing for cancer patients. The scientist interviewing her with all the young scientist watching are like residents on rounds in a hospital.
The clones represent how nobody is ever the same after surviving cancer. The anthroplogist who’s daughter died of leukemia said as much earlier in the film.
Finally, her and Kane at the end represent how even a tiny bit of remaining cancer can restart the whole process. They metastasized away from the primary tumor, and though the primary tumor was destroyed, they cancer threat remains.
You let the internet not only give you an wrong opinion, but give you the worst opinion .... the movie has nothing to do with cancer.