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Today I'll show you a horror drama film: "Gaia"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie starts with two employees of South Africa's forestry service,
paddling down a river riding a canoe
They are traveling in an indigenous forest on the Garden Route,
Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and South Africa
The river is surrounded by thick greens, exhibiting the healthy ecosystem in the area
Gabi, a forestry service employee, controls a drone in the forest,
when a boy named Stefan suddenly appears, hitting the device until it shuts down
Then an African man named Winston,
and a forestry service employee give her one hour to locate the drone,
despite worrying about the danger she might encounter deep inside the woods
Shortly after, as Gabi walks around to find the drone, Barend and Stefan,
the father and son covered in dirt, are holding wielded traps from planks and sensitive materials
The father and son set up traps,
and collected materials in the forest to serve as their camouflage,
because they were wearing nothing, but a piece of rags tied around their waist
In this scene, they look scrawny as a stick, as if they have been deprived of eating
Winston is on the other side of the forest; and he is patiently waiting for Gabi to come back
He did not bring his radiotelephone, which is why Gabi could not reach him
At this point, Gabi is starting to feel bothered about her environment,
when she notices someone spying on her
She tries to call Winston; but there is no response from him
so she runs away from the place,
but at last gets caught by the trap Barend and Stefan installed for hunting
Afterwards, a sharp wood strikes her left foot, making her scream in much pain
It pierces her foot, and makes her walk challenging
On the other side of the wood, Winston hears the distant screaming
He immediately goes to the canoe to pick up his radiotelephone
but unfortunately, it gets soaked
Now he is left with no choice, but to track Gabi manually on his own
He immediately rides the canoe, paddling it down while calling Gabi's name
At the forest, it begins to radiate a glowing red light
The forest seems to be transforming into something bizarre
The trees are creaking; and it is getting eerier as the night falls;
but the forestry employees are still looking for each other
Gabi is curious about the occurrence of being mesmerized by the strange phenomena
so she follows the path,
where the light leads her towards an old wooden cabin in the middle of the woods
While this is happening, Winston perceives a figure following him
At first, He thought it was just a mushroom for a second,
until it makes a move trying to hide from him;
and Winston gets stuck in a puddle, after trying to escape from the strange creature
In the next scene, Gabi is knocking on the door, hoping someone will open and let her in
Her foot hurts; and this is hindering her every move
Currently, she is seeking refuge to stay that night; and she is lucky enough to find one
When no one answers, Gabi has no choice, but to enter it by herself
Gabi is now using the flashlight of her phone while wandering her eyes around the cabin,
only to find out that it is empty with a few random stuff on a shelf at the corner
then she grabs a blanket to lie on, and puts a bandage on her foot to prevent the spillage of blood
The following day, she wakes up after having a nightmare;
right then, the door opens, showing Barend and Stefan,
who look agitated from a hunt with their spears, bow, and other hunting materials
At this moment, Gabi is frightened when Barend speaks to her
He asks her about the person behind her intrusion; but she tells him that she is not alone
Meanwhile, Winston is out there in the woods,
still uncertain about the soft growls coming out of nowhere;
and then Gabi joins them as they share a dinner of worms and meat
At this point, it is evident that Barend's son, Stefan, is not much of a talker
He is just silently listening to his father;
and Gabi starts to talk about what it is like to be in a city
Meanwhile, the creature slowly comes to the surface,
gazing at Winston when he steps foot on the island
It is a terrifying sight with its heavy-coated skin, which resembles a tree's trunk,
and the startling squeals it takes off
Without any hesitation, Winston beats a hasty retreat
He tries to hide behind a huge tree;
but he still can't get away from the danger that is about to arrive
There are moving tentacles,
creeping on the trunk of the trees where he is hiding, trying to reach him
then it seeps into his body, and he can't do anything except to transfigure to be someone like them
The following day, Barend and Stefan cleanse Gabi's wound
While doing so, Stefan is tempted to touch her, because he is slowly getting attached to her
After treating her wounds, the father and son left to hunt for food
Moments after, Gabi wakes up, and various fungi surprise her, sprouting on her arms
She tries to remove it, fighting the pain of the abrasions it causes
Then she grabs her radiotelephone, hoping that Winston will respond
She is about to give up, when a static connection emerges in the background from her colleague
and she hears Winston utter unclear statements
He seems uneasy, so he can't talk properly
So Gabi decides to disregard it, with hopes that she will meet him soon enough
Due to this, Gabi makes a bright idea to help her colleague locate her,
by lighting a fire in a small chimney
While wandering, Gabi discovers a secret compartment under the floor,
after stepping on a rattling plank
There inside, she finds a photograph of a woman together with random mechanics and stuff
Then she immediately stays away from the area when Barend arrives
Shortly after, Barend gets rid of the fire by pouring water over it,
then warns Gabi that they don't make a fire in the daylight
At that moment, Gabi opens the topic about the woman in the photograph;
and Barend confesses that it is his wife who died of bone cancer thirteen years ago
He also admits that he was a plant pathologist
The dark hours have arrived
As the sky gets dimmer and the surroundings quieter than ever, a creature barges into the cabin
Then Gabi covers her arms with dirt, just like Barend and Stefan
This will prevent the creature from smelling them
While Stefan is aiming the door with his usual cold stare,
the thick-full-of-tentacles and tiny fibers arm of the beast, is slowly traveling its way to Gabi
But good thing, Barend was swift enough to cut it down
The creature starts expressing its anger,
so it opens the door furiously, revealing its frightening appearance
This creature has the physique of a man, but its head is a fungus
It has no sense of sight; but it has a sharp ear
While Gabi is busy describing the monster to herself, Stefan doesn't waste any time
He stabs the creature mercilessly, making its blood splatter all around the area, especially Gabi
When the beast is dead, Stefan strips off Gabi's clothes,
and wipes the blood on Gabi's skin because this will prevent her from getting infected
At this moment, the creature's blood is being burned,
when Barend explains that the beast is taking over a human's body,
feeds on the eyes, mouth, and lungs, connects to the fungal network, and repeats itself finally
It is spreading like wildfire
The next day, Gabi shows her phone to Stefan, who is amazed at the unfamiliar device
However, the phone flew away, because his father threw it on the wall
He yells at his son for using a devilish device
eventually, the father and son go out to provide offerings to a tree,
that seems to contain the strange alive fungus
Concurrently while the two are out, Gabi searches for clues in the private apartment
There, she discovers Barend's writing, stating that "to see humanity's future,
one must observe the monkeys in captivity"
When Barend and his son come home, they plan to look for Gabi's colleague,
whom she lost contact with
However, Stefan wants to go; but his father won't let him go
While walking, Gabi sees the flashlight Winston owned
She figures that he is somewhere around the area
Gabi also retrieves the SD card from a camera they put in the woods
Then Gabi and Barend find Winston's body covered in fungus
They don't know that Winston begs to get killed, rather than become one of the creatures
For him, dying a human is what matters the most
Winston could have been alive, and since he is intelligent and wise,
he can make theories about the occurrences in the woods,
and take them to their institution for further investigation
Unfortunately, he was attacked first
One morning, the fungus starts appearing on Gabi's legs
Stefan helps her out, by letting her eat the fungi his father gave him,
hoping that this will help her from worsening into something uncontrollable
Following this, Stefan brings Gabi to his mother,
because he wants to show her what happened after his family got involved with the organisms
To her surprise, the mother is a living tree
She is still moving; and a faint sound can be heard from her
Gabi catches the sight of a wedding ring still attached to one of her transformed fingers
This results in her becoming more intrusive of what's happening
She tries to open her broken phone, and is glad that it is still working
Gabi inserts the SD card retrieved from the camera, that she and Winston set up in the woods
She finds photographs of the creatures there like she was expecting
While looking through them,
Barend is ranting about the future demise of humanity because of their reckless actions
This made her eager to feed her curiosity, and find out the meaning behind all his words
Barend escorts her to the source of these uncanny creatures
She starts visualizing the weird connection between the father and son to the tree,
which serves as the breeding ground for the mysterious happenings in the woods
There, She spots Barend sharing an intimate moment with the tree
She is bewildered, and wants to get out of that place
That night, she brings Stefan along with her to escape;
but Barend stops them along the way, convincing his son that the outside world is dangerous,
and to Gabi's dismay, Stefan agrees to his father
Gabi is worried about Stefan's fate at the hands of his father,
if she will not bring him together with her away from the place
With this in mind, she comes back to the cabin to save him
She grabs the bow and arrow in the house when the father and son leave
Meanwhile, Stefan is being sacrificed by his father to the organism
Stefan is trying to escape, but the roots are holding his hands tightly
This time, Gabi appears to save him; but the creature is helping Barend to get rid of them both
Then successfully, Stefan manages to release himself from being restrained
Meanwhile, his father is aiming to kill Gabi, so Stefan jabs him in the back
Considering the damage they have brought to Barend, the two run away
They come back to the cabin to stay for the night afterward
However, since Barend was left in the woods, the organisms turn him into one of them,
instead of his son, whom the father plans to sacrifice
No matter what he does to appease them,
the organisms seem not to listen because of their hunger to invade
Then Barend lies on the cold ground, helpless, as the organisms consume his body
On the following day, a book catches Gabi's attention upon waking up
This is one of Barend's writing, alerting and informing humanity about the upcoming reckoning
Gabi can't seem to understand the meaning behind Barend's logical reasoning,
until her days come to an end
Consequently, Gabi can't make it to the city, for she gets entirely infected by the organisms
Her body is covered with countless fungus;
and she has no choice but to stay in the impenetrable forest
There is no chance of her surviving; that's why she pleads with Stefan to kill her, which he does
He is left with no choice but to leave her there,
because she is now part of the forest, just like his parents
The movie ends as Stefan paves the way to his new life, to the city
He seems to be adjusting to urban life
He is eating alone and silently at a restaurant
When he finishes his food, he stands up and leaves
Then he sees that the food starts forming lots of mold and fungi into it
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