so i already figured that the calm voice that tells simon when he's at the sm-8 to watch out was his mother, but what i didn't catch was the "you'll love it there dialogue" as pointed out by this tweet:
i initially heard it as "here" as i thought simon and his mother moved to eden for whatever reason and she died of unspecified/unimportant causes, maybe illness or smth. but this is so much worse. and brings up so many questions? why was simon sent away? was eden already worshipping the tree or did they start worshipping it after the rapture? if they were already worshipping the tree, did she send him there with the goal of getting him indoctrinated into the cult? was it the only way for survival? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS.
the whole transcript of the voice, at least what i can make out currently:
they have a tree up there,
it'll feel just like home,
*sigh* simon don't be like that.
you'll love it there
and then comes the warning
simon...
its a trap
its right behind you
its still there
on your left
they're watching you
in general this whole scene has so much to unpack because of the MANY many voices going on and sound effects, trying to decipher whats a flashback and whats a hallucination, but keeping focus on his mother's dialogue
this stood out to me because i think if simon was the only one that was sent to eden, and if we are to believe the theory that the blood of at-5 is specifically the blood of the humans that got raptured.... then that means his mother has been right there with him that whole time. and maybe that's why he stays alive so much longer than he was supposed to.
also. can you imagine the survivor's guilt? of watching your mother die so far away on another planet. getting to see her final moments yet also not? only knowing that she's gone and not even knowing why or how.. and you, the butcher, survived.
and maybe that's why the creature also brought up simon's mother to him. do you think it knew she was there?
how many more bodies would you climb over to save yourself?
always thinking of the life you'll never get back,
thinking of a mother, who wouldn't even recognise the killer she spawned
or maybe she'd be proud.
is death, the only thing she taught you?
half-measures. half-committed. NEVER enough
there is nothing else for us now.
it seems to know of her existence, yet nothing about her. WOULD she be proud of the killer he'd become? she gave him the knife holster afterall. was this blood on his hands before or after moving to eden? was the holster before or after the blood on his hands? was it a means to survival which led to all this bloodshed, or was it a reward for all the killings?
also, i think it's clear that whatever she did, for whatever reason, must have been done with love in her heart, because otherwise i don't think simon woul have been that attached to her. he is a man riddled with guilt over all the lives hes taken(?), yet his biggest comfort is a weapon holster given to him by his dead mother.
this movie is driving me insane i need to gnaw on something with my bare teeth
