`Skyline as an Allegory for Fishing.

There will be spoilers, you've been warned.

Did anyone else get the vibe that the writers originally intended for this movie to be an allegory for fishing?


The way the spaceships dotted the sky at a near uniform altitude reminded me of boats lined along the surface of the ocean. The way their probes smashed into the ground seemed very reminiscent of anchors, and the shiny blue lures, you guessed it, fishing lures.


The movie would have been about taking us out of our role as "the hunter" and into the shoes of "the hunted," as humans are nothing more than food to be harvested by this alien species. Los Angeles would have been an allegorical coral reef, with it's multi-floored skyscrapers helping to underpin the variety of depth that comes with underwater navigation, weaving in and out through windows and rooms, just like an eel in the rocks.

Even the girl being pregnant could have been relevant seeing as how in some places, fishing regulations prohibit the harvest of pregnant fish.

The movie took several minutes (which is a lot by movie standards) to highlight the idea of escaping to the sea on that boat. At this point, I really thought that's what the writers were going for.


I can imagine the ending: The protagonist and his girlfriend make it to sea by the skin of their teeth, the movie's slowing to a close. A few days later they're safe and sound on the open ocean. The protagonist sits there catching the day's meal, rod in hand. Then the camera slowly pans down following his line as it meets a silver lure. The daylight dances off it as it sways in the current in an eerily familiar manner. And there, still as rocks, float several fish staring with unwavering focus on the lure, as if mesmerized.


The actual ending felt very abrupt, like some kind of deus-ex cop out, as if the changed writers half-way thinking the "action-y" ending was better worth pursuing.


So what do you guys think? Has Hollywood dumbed-down another potentially engaging movie, or am I reading into it waaaaay too much?