The Abyss

[Hiker]

The Abyss borrows from to many other movies and thus fails a test of virtue. The movie charicter's simply fail believe ability. If it weren't for satan, Abyss would be schizo. The movie is animal worship. The hero's navy seal mystique becomes overcast when they take every means possible and kill other colleague's to resue a non-human lifeform hiding from the world, capable of disabiling a sub-suface diver's base. Unclassified species capable of manslaughter are so important in this movie, a colleague must be manslaughtered to rescue the species. The leading charicter's are maglomaniac and dipicted as hero's. As though they're keeper's and protector's of the earth and all life, a sacred duty to keep, they must kill to save other life forms unknown to them. They embrace and kiss several minutes of the movie's duration, even kissing a microphone, like shaping her lips to a Kurt Vonnugut Breakfast of Champions symbol. The evil villans want to nuke the thing that strangely approached them after several people died from a unexplainable accident in the deep, and turned off all the power. The villan's mistake was to rather not use science, choosing to kill a sea beast over science and diplomacy. The beast itself was hiding themselves and super technology. The violent media scene's suggest the intelligent beasts were metaphysically reincarnated from death on earth, once existing as people. The moral, a satanic moral being that perhaps the beast were drowned sailors who adapted from death, slowly re-adapting to return from the deepest places of the earth, unless proven otherwise. The movie makes a virtue of sex, manslaughter, and maglomania, therefore, a really senseless bad movie. The hidden world below the sea was done before, so therefore, both theme and plot were not original.

Geno

[eidolon]

::raises an eyebrow::

interesting. i never did get all of that out of the abyss... okay, here's a question: which version did you see? because the director's cut makes a heck of a lot more sense and, personally, i'd be certain to say that it proves your theories incorrect. but, let's remember that it has been quite a while since i've watched it.

as far as i knew, the 'creature' was one of a species that came from a different planet. they saw only evil in the world and decided that we weren't fit to inhabit the world-- they saw no good in us whatsoever-- and, thus, were going to destroy us. but, the two main characters showed them something they had never seen-- love. so they saw the good in humanity and changed their minds. then, they left the planet.

don't get me wrong, i do find your theories fascinating, but i have a feeling that's not exatly what they were getting at in the film... you may have read a little to much into things...

or it could be that i'm not reading enough into it...