Borhis's Degradation

I love genre movies and genre art in general, where you put your own spin on it. Like Borhis is obviously doing this here. You have this archetypical kind of story, a quest for immortality. And then it kind of spins off in all these boar has ways with allThese boar has themes and ideas and philosophical questions. That's a good thing, but I'm struggling to feel why he has this negativespin on it. We want it to be something wholly original and it can't be; that wouldn't even account for the degrading of it.