This Russian story (or perhaps tall tale) is fascinating for one reason: the way it´s open to several completely different interpretations, each one just as "logical" as the others.
The Japanese film team - clearly inspired by US and Latin American UFO-alien lore - expected the strange "Alyoshenka" creature to be an extraterrestrial entity of some kind. The local population, on the other hand, connected it to folklore about "the Little People", presumably trolls or fairies.
The narrator, finally, claims that it must have been a mutant fetus badly damaged by radioactivity. Not impossible, to be sure, but also a kind of modern folklore where every strange birth defect can be attributed to the "mysterious" forces of nuclear power or ditto explosions...
No comments:
Post a Comment