Water, egg, the Asset, Your Alternate Universe: A Universe of Sh*t!

SPOILER ALERT : I am going to be going on and on about a film I had just seen.

I'm not sure if I have an attention deficit or if I need time to process between moments of my intake. How can one fully experience the experience in the moment of a film where more action occurs while one is still feeling the feeling of the previous moment. Maybe that's one of the reasons why films have long periods of seeing naked people in the tub or having sex or fingering each other in places where fingers shouldn't be digitalizing.
So I am thinking of a film I had seen. It is a love story between incomparable people and species. It is a story of friendship, love, brutality, sadomasochism, military rank, cold war mentality, higher intelligence, and being able to identify a g*d and offering it its due respect and awe.
It is a story that classifies people in expected pigeon holes; black, white, civilian, military, federal agent, free agent, wealthy capitalist, working stiff. There is no religion in the film. There is a sense that people have a time in their life when they are awake and a time when they are asleep. For the most part, when they are sleeping, there is a ritual of preparation for it; a change of clothes, an unmaking of the bed, the placement of an eye mask over the eyes, or the removal of a hat and positioning it on the bus' window so that the head can lead against the glass for a nap. Being awake is represented by turning off an alarm clock, performing morning ablutions, boiling eggs for a movable feast or the afternoon break.
Don't waste water. It's a theme that was made throughout the film. People drank it from clear glasses and it was used for mopping the floor. There was mention as to how often a man should wash his hands before or after using the urinal. And the film had blood. Blood is a sort of water. Blood carries life. Blood was also one of the plagues.
Slavery. A major character was a Black woman. She had a mind of her own and a mouth to back up her mind. She was a good and loyal friend. She was married to a man that she talked about incessantly and clearly had a love/hate relationship with. But that's part of a subplot that we learn to see what she is about... it provides a bit of information for us to learn more about her, her upbringing, her sense of family.
She was not the only slave in the film. The Asset was also a slave. The Asset was highly intelligent and able to understand complex concepts and to express itself in a meaningful and significant way. It was never identified other than being called a creature, the Asset, or by the anecdote that 'some thought that it was a g*d'.
I am reminded of HIGHLANDER. In the series, there are immortal beings that are (for the most part) self-healing. There are limits as to how much healing is available. The HIGHLANDER immortals cannot replace their lost limbs. I don't know if they are able to replace organs, but I do know that tissue repair is almost instantaneous (a razor cut is healed within seconds and gunshot wounds in less than a minute). But in this film, the Asset is able to heal others. It's touch can provide life to parts of another person's body that are dead.
THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK IT'S NAME and RACISIM. It appeared briefly in the film in a place where pie was made and sold. One of the characters frequented a pie shop and bought a particular flavor of pie that probably reminded him of a special someone. He even placed an unfinished piece of pie in the refrigerator and we get to see that he had several other slices of the same type of pie that remained unfinished.
THE EGG. It's life that has not finished growing. It exists on land with birds and in the waters with fish and turtles. We eat them (usually cooked) and in some instances we can carry them after we have cooked them for later consumption.
Releasing the Asset. This reminded me of TURTLE DIARIES. Imagine a film that deals with setting an animal free. Imagine an animal that has lived in captivity but that would really thrive if it were placed back in its natural habitat. Many of us are taught that even if an animal is classified as wild, once it is brought into captivity, it could not be put back in the wild because it had become softened by being fed rather than by hunting. It might have also gotten soft by being in contact with another species. In TURTLE DIARIES, the protagonist was certain that the turtles would truly be happier once they were released.
Keeping a g*d in captivity certainly has its consequences.
I won't say anything more about that.
I'm feeling somewhat unsettled about the film. It's set in Baltimore and I'll be there soon. Oh well... I'm sure I'll be thinking about it more over time.