Werewolves
Been watching Ginger Snaps II for 7 minutes now, and already I'm thinking about werewolves and stuff.
Common theme that occurs between this movie and An American Werewolf in London:spirits of dead werewolves (well, in AAWIL it was victims, but still).
So...
...I'm wondering. Werewolves are a representation of base, primal urges and animalistic actions. It's sort of a condensed rage and psychosis that's transmitted, normally, through injury from one carrier to a victim. At the same time, its also a spiritual ailment that metaphysically generates additional mass and causes the body to change itself rapidly to assume a new form, typically under the stimulus of the new moon.
Now, there had to be a patient zero. A first werewolf. He or she bit someone, and that person was also turned into a werewolf. The short timespan of action, around the full moon, explains why they didn't just slaughter everything. But the process of being turned into a werewolf is also symbolic of both a rape (in the initial attack) and a rebirth, so that symbollically links all werewolves by blood.
Given the primal spiritual aspect of the werewolf, then, perhaps the rage that they carry inside them is an expression of the first werewolf. And then, perhaps, theres some form of semi-reincarnation that occurs, as one werewolf is able to look back down the line at the spirits of the werewolves that have come before him, stretching back along the different branches of the werewolf family tree back to the first, big daddy werewolf.
...which then goes to explain why you, Mister or Missus Werewolf, are walking down the street some day when suddenly some guy dressed like a Scottish miner comes out of an alley and engages you in a conversation that only you can see and here.
In other words, not only does becoming a werewolf ruin your social life, it also turns you into a raging screwball. Well...more so than you'd be if you just turned into a towering, 7 foot tall man eating monster three days a month.
The end.
Common theme that occurs between this movie and An American Werewolf in London:spirits of dead werewolves (well, in AAWIL it was victims, but still).
So...
...I'm wondering. Werewolves are a representation of base, primal urges and animalistic actions. It's sort of a condensed rage and psychosis that's transmitted, normally, through injury from one carrier to a victim. At the same time, its also a spiritual ailment that metaphysically generates additional mass and causes the body to change itself rapidly to assume a new form, typically under the stimulus of the new moon.
Now, there had to be a patient zero. A first werewolf. He or she bit someone, and that person was also turned into a werewolf. The short timespan of action, around the full moon, explains why they didn't just slaughter everything. But the process of being turned into a werewolf is also symbolic of both a rape (in the initial attack) and a rebirth, so that symbollically links all werewolves by blood.
Given the primal spiritual aspect of the werewolf, then, perhaps the rage that they carry inside them is an expression of the first werewolf. And then, perhaps, theres some form of semi-reincarnation that occurs, as one werewolf is able to look back down the line at the spirits of the werewolves that have come before him, stretching back along the different branches of the werewolf family tree back to the first, big daddy werewolf.
...which then goes to explain why you, Mister or Missus Werewolf, are walking down the street some day when suddenly some guy dressed like a Scottish miner comes out of an alley and engages you in a conversation that only you can see and here.
In other words, not only does becoming a werewolf ruin your social life, it also turns you into a raging screwball. Well...more so than you'd be if you just turned into a towering, 7 foot tall man eating monster three days a month.
The end.
posted by Derek the Bard at 2:39 a.m.
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