A true thought provocative movie!

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2018)

I truly enjoyed it, this is one of the most perplexing and thought-provoking movies I've ever seen, it has too many lectures, and none of them cancels the other It will take forever to tackle them all. And even if it's filled with some weird moments like the bear stealing voices and the humans transforming to plants ( the plants growing out from Josie was pretty uncomfortable to watch my body was shivering), it's still a fantastic movie about evolution, human nature and mental health. The Shimmer the film can have many interpretations: extraterrestrial or spiritual but the metaphor that comes over and is more accurate is Cancer which is mentioned at the beginning at college then inside the shimmer plus Ventress suffers from it, and Cass's daughter died of leukaemia. The shimmer Work almost like Cancer as it deconstructs the DNA of cells and mutates them, but rather than destroying, it evolves them causing the deletion of the old identity and the creation of a more sophisticated one, and this is the central theme of the movie in my opinion. As it interrogates the limits of this identity asking until which level of evolution do we stay ourselves? The shimmer creates chaotic life formes in constant change, the opposite of death which is an anomaly as Lena mentioned that would make the shimmer's interference on organisms "life". But in reality, the anomaly is our rejection to change and evolution, so the metaphor is a metaphor for human change and the "destruction for building" moto. Another message that touched me in this movie is: choose" fight." in the face of sorrow and misfortune! And this is the intake on mental illness as every character suffers on his way against there demons and the situation and only the one who chose to move forward and fight "the thing" made it out of this grey and aguish zone while others lost their lives.