the thing as a principle of life

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2012)

without a doubt the most fascinating aspect of the movie is the thing itself. It is not so much a "form of live" as a "life of form" or rather a life as such. It is an embodiment of evolutionary principles, of survival and reproduction which in the case of the thing resembles reproduction on a most basic biological level. The thing is more replicating itself than reproducing like a mammal.
In a way than the thing succeeds to show the "dark side" of life or maybe even the very essence of life. It shows what life is really all about in a Darwinian sense.
there is an episode in which a doctor is calculating statistical probability of the thing's spreading on earth and the computer shows terrible results according to which the thing if contacted can spread worldwide in couple of days. Well it can be read as a hint to how vulnerable humanity is in reality or we can also read it as how vulnerable the world is to life itself.