Depict Elicitors In The Fly

The movie “The Fly” presents various disgust elicitors through the process of metamorphosis of the protagonist, Seth Brundle that modifies his genetics and makes him become a fusion of a human and a fly. Both Seth’s and Veronica’s reactions toward the metamorphosis reveals a fundamental human emotion – disgust and how humans are affected by disgust elicitors.
Body envelop violation is one of the major disgust elicitors in “The Fly.” As Rachael Herz points out in “That’s Disgusting,” when the external human form is unusually distorted or mutilated, we experience the emotion of disgust. When we see people have physical deformities or people who are very ugly, we experience the emotion of disgust because they remind us of our animalistic nature – that we are mortal and can be deformed. We are not only disgusted, but are also afraid of our mortality, since the
We can be disgusted by both what we bring into our bodies, primarily food and drink, and what come out of our bodies, such as blood, urine, feces, saliva, vomit, and so on. There are many disgusting scenes in the movie that are related to these elicitors. For example, most of us will feel disgusted watching the scene of the teeth and the white, thick liquid vomit come out of the mouth of “brundlefly.” The falling off of the teeth also belongs to the category of body envelop violation that leads to disgust reaction. Another striking scene related to body disgust is Veronica’s horrible dream about giving birth to a maggot. In normal situation, the process of giving birth is an exception of body disgust, but giving birth to a maggot is a completely different concept. Maggots, along with other insects such as snails, slugs, cockroaches, are considered revulsion evoking, despite their harmlessness in general. In the Veronica’s nightmare scene, the disgust elicitors present include both the body and