Hard times can be good times for monsters in films. Dracula, Jeckyl and Hyde, King Kong and Frankenstein all made film appearances during the Great Depression. So, let's invent a monster film. How about a dark pool character? A murky shape-shifting thing that grows and grows in size because it has an unsatiable greedy appetite. Perhaps things in its way become enmeshed and encorporated within it, until the dark thing blocks all the light in the world. It is lonely and groaning and does not want to be so large. It actually has a friendly side, and, our hero recognises that feature. So - who or what is the hero??
Several cross plots appear at this point. There are the Ghost-Sisters, laden with bling who appear at every "expansion" of the dark thing and sing a little ditty. There are the Big Buildings, the animated unfinished structures that are having a race across the desert landscape a la mad max style that break down and decay along the way. There is also an environmental angle - tiny little animated particles periodically die little deaths and dance away leaving little patches of smog behind that the dark thing feeds on like chocolates. Finally, there are the parental-figures, one who-oh-so-obviously is modeled on missmarketcrash, and there are, of course, two heroic children who deflate the dark thing and befriend his miniature side, reshaping him into something charitable, a giver rather than a taker...
And there are people that can write this without saying there are. Merry Christmas.
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