Cocoons
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Silkworms are often boiled to death inside their
cocoons
, their silk unraveled and used in the textile industry.
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Why, for example, does this caterpillar start violently thrashing about when another insect gets close to it and those white
cocoons
that it seems to be standing guard over?
Some of the wasps seemed to stay behind and controlled it into defending their siblings which are metamorphosing into adults within those
cocoons.
Our imagination might shrink; our hearts might dwindle, and our humanness might wither if we stay for too long inside our cultural
cocoons.
I've read other hacks' reviews of this movie, and while it certainly isn't the best movie ever made in the sci-fi / horror genre, it isn't THAT bad if you accept it for what it is - low-budget, b-movie fare that (shall we say) "borrows heavily" from the likes of 'Alien' (nasty extraterrestrial monster that
cocoons
its victims) 'Species' (gorgeous and confused "space girl") and 'Incubus' (the beastie-breeding-with-captive-girls angle).
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