Considering you still want to see the limits of what this flashlight will do, you look around for a DvD store. You find a section with some heavily discounted movies, and grab a handful of the same movie. When you ring up the DvDs, you get a look from the clerk like you're crazy, but they mostly shrug.
Its some time before you can truly, get back to check out the movie, and you imagine this might take a few days before you can get through all the variations of what you can do to them. But its worth a shot.
Once you get home, you put in the first DvD as a sort of "control" viewing... You watch it to find its mostly just some low budget space opera, a very old one. Its amusing to see the cliché storm it goes through trying to re-enact scenes from a more well known series, with all the self awareness of a pine cone. It seems like it borders on a parody of Star Trek at times only to fail to follow through on the parody.
Taking out the first DvD and setting it aside, you take the second copy of the movie and shine a strong inanimate pink light on it, placing the box on top of some paper before you do so in order to try not to "spill" the light on anything of value... Though you can easily undo it if you did.
After you're done, from the cover alone, it looks like its mostly the same movie, but all the costumes seem to have turned into dresses, and the starships have been painted bright pink. Just to be sure of a few things, first you check that the original disk you set aside is unchanged (its hard to tell given the reality shit stuff), and then stick the DvD in... Only for it to play much the same movie but as if all of the male characters were drag queens, and the ships were set designed by the Barbie corporation.
Given that none of the people on the movie seem to have been changed, you can't help but wonder if things are more nuanced than the flashlight let on... Maybe organic used on an inanimate object that depicts a living creature will make it change to show changes to said creature. Then again, maybe it would change the real people as well, or do nothing.
Deciding there's only one way to find out, you swap to the third copy and set the Flashlight to organic. After a quick shine on the DvD and its case, the cover picture quickly changes to show a cast of tomboyish girls fighting a bunch of masochistic looking female aliens.
With this watch through, it goes mostly the same, up until the relationship section that was originally between the captain and the original girl about a third of the way through the story. The now female captain finds herself instead being woo'd by the once womanizing first mate now flirty girl, who makes out with her and does the captain right there in the elevator, the two girl's tongues intertwining, their two bodies brushing against each others against the wall.
You press the info button on the player's remote to check the time stamp, and find that the movie seems to be significantly longer now. Its almost like its ended up with a full porno right in the middle of the movie.
You make a mental note to check back on this later, but skip ahead to where the crew encounters the aliens; and you're not disappointed, as the scene seems to quickly devolve into BDSM play as the aliens make maniacal statements about how they'll tame all the shy little minxes of the galaxy into their little whores, while the captain and her crew get strapped down and knotted by what appears to be high tech strap-ons, all the while the tomboyish captain and her crew make corny platitudes about how "our love is stronger than any pain".
At this point, you're not sure what's crazier, the fact that this worked, or the fact that it changed the movie more than you thought it would. Perhaps this is what happens when all a low budget production has to work with is a bunch of boyish girls and their sex is they only asset they can capitalize on to make it work... The nature of tight budget rather than anything else, unless one assumes the original movie was some kind of masturbatory story for women.
Still, you have a fair idea what will happen using the other settings... If you used the sexual preference mode on it, the characters would be more likely to pair off along the lines of what you shine on them; if you used the mind setting, you might end up with incredibly feminine characters, or if one posits that the plot is a function of characters, perhaps a feminine plot... Or maybe an incredibly masculine plot if one used the blue version of that, with masculine characters, as if its Rambo in space. Which leaves the relationship setting, which would do exactly what it suggests, basically allow you to ship characters however you want.
You chuckle at that, its a pretty petty way to use the flashlight, but its interesting.
That said, there's also the "awareness" setting... For using this on people, you imagine you would have kept it on un-aware, but with these movies, you have a chance to do something interesting; maybe attempt to introduce the gender change as a plot element mid movie. Though, you're not sure if that would affect the movie before that point retroactively due to the reality change effects.
Clearly, this is not what the makers of this flashlight had in mind.