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here's a link to an interpretation i found.
it's been posted somewhere here already but that link isnt working.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080611162246/http://blogs.teodesian.net/wp/?p=117

I think everyone in this thread is thinking too deeply about this film.

Jeez....

Thinking about this, I feel that the film is essentially looking at the cycle of life. The bookends showing the mysterious orb in the sky suggest that what is happening now has happened before and will happen again.

The first time that we see the girl emerge from her hiding spot, red light floods everything. There's no way I can put it delicately, but she is basically menstruating for the first time. She carries around the egg which, as previous posters have observed, represents her maidenhead/innocence. It's telling that, when she carries it in her dress, she often appears to be pregnant.

She meets a man who, from the very way he appears before her, represents everything that is male, carrying his weapon and even riding upon a tank that looks like it was designed by H R Giger. He gradually gains her trust by protecting her innocence and her person, and sharing his own weaknesses and fears with her. But, in the end, the inevitable happens. He betrays her by taking her innocence and destroying it, inadvertently doing the same to her life. But, in so doing, new life is created.

From an endless cycle of trust and betrayal, life continues on, from generation to generation, though we don't even remember why. It's just the way things are.