First of all
Brother from Another Planet, is a great film to show in class. Very in
enjoyable, nostalgic film, that just off the energy in the room seemed like
everyone was really eating it up. I love it, glad I finally saw it, and it’s
one of those movies I always seen on Netflix but never clicked on.
This week in class, we read “The
Blood Child” which was an interesting sci-fi reading. The story is told through
the eyes of young human who is next in line to be the vessel for an alien
spices. This spices is known as the Tlic. Written as large humanoid Millipedes
they use the human as nest and incubators for their eggs. The story goes to
describe the history between the two spices. How this relationship came to be
and give and take that most spices do to support each other, however the power
clearly lies in the Tlic’s hands.
The
story is one giant metaphor for the current societies gender roles. Put simply
the young male is women and the Tlic are males. When you break it down to the
bare bones the reproduction path is the same for us. Think about males and
females can’t reproduce with out each other. Additional have a baby is just
like have a weird parasite grow inside of you until it burst out. I mean
normally it’s the same spices most the time but you get the idea. It has some
horror elements in it, thanks to the Alien like stomach exploding action, so it
was a fun one.
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