Just want to share my interpretation of the end of this film and the horror theme it covers. Feel free to offer feedback!

Hi Everyone,

Huge fan of this film. Best representation of cosmic horror we've had in a while.

First things first, we understand that the film's latent content is a tale of grief, self destruction, and a symbol for cancer. That's not what I'm going to be reflecting on. Rather, I'm going to be sharing my own interpretation about what happened at the end of the film, and what the actual "alien" is, as well as the creation of the mimicks.

I do not think the mimicks are real living entities. The duplicates are not aliens, they're not entities, they're not motivated. There's only ONE alien entity in the entire film. And it's that cloud shape Lena sees and encounters in the lighthouse. What is it? It's the source of the Shimer. It's presence is the source of the Shimer . OR, it's the Shimmer itself.

Yog Sothoth knows the gate. Yog Sothoth is the gate. He's the guardian and the key of the gate.

I'm not implying the Shimer is Yog Sothoth. Rather, what I'm suggesting is that we really don't understand the entity, or Eldritch cosmic force, or being that IS the Shimer, or that is CREATING the Shimer. all we know is that the Shimer is reflecting, duplicating, merging and fusing DNA. The further away from the source you are, the slower, and less intensified the refraction is.

Lena arrives at the light house, and there's not some entity there waiting for her to be duplicated. There's not some individual being or cosmic force with human intentions making a decision to duplicate itself.

No. Lena is simply at the source of the Shimer, and is encountering it in its most singularized raw form..the refraction is at its source. This cosmic entity, source of the Shimer is this incomprehensible engine of DNA duplication. Lena's duplicate is created by simply interacting with it. It's a side effect of the Eldritch entity. The duplicate isnt an entity, it's creation is a side effect of the entity.

TLDR: There's no individualized intelligence behind the duplicate. The duplicate (s) aren't aliens, they aren't entities, and they aren't living, thinking things. The duplicates are simply rapidly created refractions, created as a result of an organisms interaction with the TRUE Eldritch cosmic being. And that being is that cloud thing, either the Shimer itself, or the source of the Shimer.