wait hold on sorry. there's also the fact that lena has already been blended together with cassie and anya and josie and ventress to the point that she has cassie's tattoo. not to mention every other living thing she's likely been blended with. she truly isn't a human named lena anymore.

the self are as ironclad as they seem and realize that the self, at least, is far more fragile than we'd like to think."

sorry. just needed to get that out somewhere. i think about this movie too much.

without holding your hand and gently explaining to you why the shimmer is scary like you're five. actually, no, kane's "i thought i was a man" monologue was as close to that as it could be without outright saying "this movie is scary because it forces us to wonder if individuality and (cont'd)

of bodies and minds is possible.

but everyone is so focused on the microcosm of that fucking bear that they miss the bigger picture of WHY its as scary as it is and bend themselves over backwards trying to find some "deeper" meaning in an ending that's about as unambiguous as it can be (cont'd)

of the movie. but now she knows that the term "human" - the separation between a species and every other living thing - and even her own name defining her as an individual separate from every other living thing are useless. there is no "human" and there is no "lena" as long as this blending (cont'd)

and if individuality is so fragile, what use are names? what use it taxonomy? the question, "are you lena?" was met with silence not because lena was somehow replaced with her very unambiguously dead doppelganger offscreen. but because she thought she was a human named lena at the beginning (cont'd)

I should clarify, by "not well drawn" I mean that im going to hate it and only me

i really should contribute to this. yknow. make the art you wanna see and all. but it's all going to be 5'5" disabled butch noxintrus with rolled up sleeves posing butchly and its not going to be well drawn.