After further thought

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2019)

I wathen this while working a 16 hour shift at my second job. At first I thought, great another great movie with a horrible alien ending. However that could not be further from the truth. In the days since watching I have found it to be so multilayered that there is so much you can miss. In the end I came to realize this. People go into the Shimmer broken some part of them lost. However the minute you enter you become part of something larger. Kane returns to Lena a new person than he was he left her broken aND unsure and returns a clean slate. After Lena enters and come back out, she is the same ready for something new. The past is gone. As it turns out the Shimmer refract DNA. What does that mean? It's a different veiw, we see the same thing but in a different place of a different way. It's only when Lena leaves the Shimmer that Kane heals because the Shimmer made them the same and without eachoker they could not go on. The fight at the end is a metaphor for what Lena was going through. Literally fighting with herself over what she had done and only once she stopped fighting and accepted what she had done was she able to escape but never the same.