From the opening credits of the movie, the human characters were subtly compared with insects. A great example was the scene where the red ants take over the anthill of the black ants. The main goal it appeared was to take the black ant eggs and bring them back to live with the red ants. They would live their whole lives with the red ants, but they would never really be one of them. The story places the Alabasters as the red ants they are often even dressed in red and William, Matty and the servants as the black ants. Even though he married into the family, William is still not one of them. The characters are often even dressed accordingly.
Going off of the anthill idea, I can see Lady Alabaster playing the role of the queen ant relatively true to nature. Physically, queen ants are much larger than the rest of the anthill. This is obviously true of Lady Alabaster. But what really sealed it for me was what happened following her death. Earlier in the movie, the Alabasters have tried to keep ants in an artificial habitat and continue to fail until William captures a queen and introduces it to the group. They need the queen to survive. When Lady Alabaster dies, all hell breaks loose in the Alabaster household and a very unnatural secret is revealed.
It really is a tightly woven plot, but I did not see the big secret coming although I did know that something was fishy. I might actually try to watch it again to try and pick up more of the hints.
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