So I kind of feel like a loser for always making these movie connections, but i have to, cause i really am a loser for movies. So this weekend, I went and saw "I Am Legend" with Will Smith, and yah it was so EPIC. The whole premise is that Will Smith is the last known man on earth, the rest were either wiped out by a mutated measles vaccine meant to cure cancer, or mutated into killer night crawlers. Needless to say, these zombie, yet alive people were SO scary, for me at least. i suppose it was mostly because of the way they were still technically human. Smith, being a scientist, knows that if he can only find the cure then he will be able to turn the monsters back into regular beings. But until then, they are our neighbors, and family members gone crazy, eating humans. So that's what's so scary.
But during this movie, we don't know what we can believe at the same time. It's really a matter of perspective. Are they monsters? they were turned into this because of our society's need to conquer nature. Similarly, the only reason they are eating people is to survive, is that a crime. While we look down on cannibalism and say "Oh, i could never do that" we've never been in a position to make that decision. The monsters live in packs and have a leader. The leader is willing to sacrifice himself to help his members and he is smart enough to lay traps for his prey. So it's really a matter of how you imagine a monster.
Same thing in my book (alas! there was a reason for this post) it's all a matter of perspective. is the governess telling the truth in how she is hearing things around the house. Are the children really involved in it or is she simply looking for a common explanation to an uncommon occurrence. the answer to this question will also help to show some cultural values. Such as, do they value the observation of the supernatural or do they frown upon exaggeration and mystery. Like in the movie, can we believe that all is true wen it only comes from the perspective of one wronged person who happens to be the narrator.
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Lucky! I still havent seen that movie but i will be soon. Speaking of the cannibalism thing, I wouldn't necessarily say that it's wrong, although it is strange and disturbing, but the whore world is based on the food chain which brings me to a book that I omce read about a group of people who's plane crashed somewhere in South America and to survive, they ate the remains of the other people who had died so it really only is a matter of survival of the fittest.
Now, for the book, I believe that she indeed is looking for any possible answer to try and explain the happeningd, probably to keep herself from going crazy. We all do that, when we don't know something, we try our best to reach some sort of conclusion to try and confort ourselves from things that we're not used to and things that we're afraid of.
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