The negative thoughts like fear, horror, vengeance all have a major stake in today’s cinema and other creative representations. Sometimes I think that, why we are so addicted to such thoughts that pain our nerves after watching it. After the advent of OTT, the number of crime movies had drastically increased conveying the message that it is easy to make crime movie than to make an inspiring feel good movie. The movies that depict alien invasions also depict the alien as a mind chilling disgusting figure that evoke the hatred and fear oriented thoughts in us. Spiders , cockroaches, octopus and snakes carry the burden to instil fear in the mind of audience. I am waiting to watch a movies which depict alien as more beautiful than humans.
The Avatar movie is an exception to this concept, where we become an alien predator to an extraterrestrial civilization. However the alien only responsibility is to attack an extraterrestrial civilization is not negated in the movie. First and second world war taught us the brutality of war on human civilizations but still our mind is craving for war mongering belligerent themes. The increasing number of dark movies remind us that our mind had become barren and it is difficult for us think beyond violence. It is ok if you watch a dark movies once in while but when it become the only appetizer for your entertainment will reveal the poverty that we are having in our creative imagination.
Just because a species had a horrible look as per our perception does not make it the dark representation of every evil happening in this universe. Giving a darker shade to another species just because they eat something else to confine their hunger does not make it a villain species. If earth nurture a chicken civilization then chicken will remind a the apex predator on this planet. The hungry ghost eating flesh does not make it a evil representation if the ghost is having a digestive system to digest it, like that an alien eating us because of hungry does not make a evil representation on this universe. They are doing the thing that we are doing to chicken, buffalos and pigs. It is not eating that is the darkest fear in our mind , the most darkest fear is losing the identity. Making movies watchable more than once is the great skill , thanks to directors of movies like pursuit of happiness, the Shawshank redemption, forrest gump, children’s of heaven, the colour of paradise, Kung fu hustle, the last samurai and many more feel good movies that enthralled us with their thought and expression.