Post by Ani on Jan 15, 2010 18:26:23 GMT -5
I was thinking a few days ago... I don't recall ever getting a clear reason as to why exactly the BRAIN wanted to destroy humanity or suck the souls out of the stitchpunks... there probably is an official reason, but this is my theory:
Judging from the movie, the machine's experience and opinion on humans came from two sources, the Scientist, and the military/government. As we see from the clip that 3 and 4 displayed, the chancellor apparently forces the scientist out, violently and takes possession of the BRAIN, which seems confused, startled, and also a little Steven Segal judging from the split second where he breaks a soldier's neck by twisting his head sharply. But anyways, it is then probably taken somewhere, where it's forced to build weapons repeatedly over and over for the military to either defend them, or help what I'm guessing is an alternate universe version of Nazi Germany take over the world.
Now, apparently as this is near success, the BRAIN, who at this point has known only cruelty from humanity, save for it's father the Scientist, decides to get revenge by using it's creations to get rid of what's making it upset. Now, this behavior seems familiar, it's juvenile, or even infantile you might say. Which is precisely my theory, it has very infantile reasoning. It wanted to make the mean people go away, so it sent it's machines out to kill the humans and make them go away forever. Of course, I doubt it thought the scientist WAS human, since he was so different from everything he had come to believe humans were at this point, so I would think it would assume that once the humans are gone, it and the scientist can be back together forever and never be bothered by the things that tore them apart. Unfortunately, the scientist WAS human and so, he died. But, he wasn't gone, which brings us to stitchpunk soul ripping.
Now, going on this previous theory that I mentioned above, we know that all 9 of the stitchpunks were made from parts of the scientists soul, so therefore;
9 stitchpunks = 1 scientist.
The machine can evidently detect whether or not something has a soul, since it examines all of the stitchpunks before sucking their greenness out, so maybe it can identify a person's soul from another's and so, recognizing the Scientist's soul in either 9 or 2, whom it sucked out, he devised that it COULD be with it's father forever only if it could get the essence of the 9 inside itself. I mean, there seems to not be any other reason for this action other than a power source, but then, why would it destroy all life if it needed it to run? And if it wanted to just destroy all life, it could have just as well crushed the stitchpunks or something. Even the attacks by monsters against the stitchpunks never seemed to be meant to be lethal, more like captures, especially the seamstress who was designed SPECIFICALLY to retrieve the ragdolls. Of course, they were hurt, but they wouldn't have the same motives as the BRAIN, theirs would be more like: "Bring the dolls back alive" it wouldn't care if the doll was hurt or anything, as long as it fulfilled it's duty to the BRAIN. Of course, once the brain had the soul inside it, it could've cared less about the body, thus, why it used 2's corpse to make the seamstress.
In the final act, once they had blown up the factory, the brain gave chase itself, no doubt in an act of juvenile rage that it had come so close, yet failed, and so, decided to do it itself. Of course, in the end it failed though, and 9 released the souls of his friends who, it would appear, were not harmed in any way, apart from their being metaphysical, indicating that they were not being used for power or to be destroyed, otherwise, they would have appeared weak and maybe even one of them would be completely gone.
So that's my theory on the B.R.A.I.N. as for why would something that's like an infant create machines that look like something that would come from a bloody pit in Silent Hill? Well, that's simple, all it had to build with was scrap metal, dirty fabrics, skeletons and dolls. YOU try making a machine from that that isn't scary as fuck.
anywho, what do you think?
Judging from the movie, the machine's experience and opinion on humans came from two sources, the Scientist, and the military/government. As we see from the clip that 3 and 4 displayed, the chancellor apparently forces the scientist out, violently and takes possession of the BRAIN, which seems confused, startled, and also a little Steven Segal judging from the split second where he breaks a soldier's neck by twisting his head sharply. But anyways, it is then probably taken somewhere, where it's forced to build weapons repeatedly over and over for the military to either defend them, or help what I'm guessing is an alternate universe version of Nazi Germany take over the world.
Now, apparently as this is near success, the BRAIN, who at this point has known only cruelty from humanity, save for it's father the Scientist, decides to get revenge by using it's creations to get rid of what's making it upset. Now, this behavior seems familiar, it's juvenile, or even infantile you might say. Which is precisely my theory, it has very infantile reasoning. It wanted to make the mean people go away, so it sent it's machines out to kill the humans and make them go away forever. Of course, I doubt it thought the scientist WAS human, since he was so different from everything he had come to believe humans were at this point, so I would think it would assume that once the humans are gone, it and the scientist can be back together forever and never be bothered by the things that tore them apart. Unfortunately, the scientist WAS human and so, he died. But, he wasn't gone, which brings us to stitchpunk soul ripping.
Now, going on this previous theory that I mentioned above, we know that all 9 of the stitchpunks were made from parts of the scientists soul, so therefore;
9 stitchpunks = 1 scientist.
The machine can evidently detect whether or not something has a soul, since it examines all of the stitchpunks before sucking their greenness out, so maybe it can identify a person's soul from another's and so, recognizing the Scientist's soul in either 9 or 2, whom it sucked out, he devised that it COULD be with it's father forever only if it could get the essence of the 9 inside itself. I mean, there seems to not be any other reason for this action other than a power source, but then, why would it destroy all life if it needed it to run? And if it wanted to just destroy all life, it could have just as well crushed the stitchpunks or something. Even the attacks by monsters against the stitchpunks never seemed to be meant to be lethal, more like captures, especially the seamstress who was designed SPECIFICALLY to retrieve the ragdolls. Of course, they were hurt, but they wouldn't have the same motives as the BRAIN, theirs would be more like: "Bring the dolls back alive" it wouldn't care if the doll was hurt or anything, as long as it fulfilled it's duty to the BRAIN. Of course, once the brain had the soul inside it, it could've cared less about the body, thus, why it used 2's corpse to make the seamstress.
In the final act, once they had blown up the factory, the brain gave chase itself, no doubt in an act of juvenile rage that it had come so close, yet failed, and so, decided to do it itself. Of course, in the end it failed though, and 9 released the souls of his friends who, it would appear, were not harmed in any way, apart from their being metaphysical, indicating that they were not being used for power or to be destroyed, otherwise, they would have appeared weak and maybe even one of them would be completely gone.
So that's my theory on the B.R.A.I.N. as for why would something that's like an infant create machines that look like something that would come from a bloody pit in Silent Hill? Well, that's simple, all it had to build with was scrap metal, dirty fabrics, skeletons and dolls. YOU try making a machine from that that isn't scary as fuck.
anywho, what do you think?
