The Rat Saviour story
A man uncovers a race of intelligent rats who can appear as human. He is captured and taken to the rat people's leader (the "savior" of the movie's title). He escapes, but then wonders who among his fellow humans is a rat person in disguise.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| duplicate of a person | major | A species of shapeshifting rats hatched a plot to kill off the people in a town one by one and replace them with replicas. |
| invasive life form from outer space | major | Mysterious shapeshifting rats hatched a nefarious plot to replace all the people in a small town. |
| romantic love | major | Ivan Gajski and Sonja became lovers. |
| shapeshifter | major | The rats in this film could take on human form. |
| struggling artist character | major | A publishing house editor refused to publish penniless author Ivan Gajski's book. Ivan was subsequently kicked out from the flat he was renting after failing to pay rent for three consecutive months and ended up sleeping on a park bench. |
| what if I told the truth and nobody would believe me | major | Nobody took seriously Ivan Gajski's contention that the abandoned central bank building was the headquarters of a secret organization, and later that shapeshifting rats were killing the people in his town and replacing them with replicas. |
| what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one | major | Ivan Gajski watched as the people in his town got replaced by shapeshifted rat replicas. |
| coping with the death of a parent | minor | Sonja mourned the death of her father Prof. Boskovic, who was murdered by the rats. |
| father and daughter | minor | Professor Martin Boskovic and his daughter Sonja. |
| scientist occupation | minor | Professor Boskovic was working in his laboratory to synthesize a substance that could be used to kill shapeshifting rats. Ivan Gajski later took up Boskovic's work after Boskovis was killed by the very rats on which he was conducting his experiments. |