Adapt or Breakthrough

Katheryn 2022-04-21 09:01:56

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest" - Evolution.
Whether people or animals, their nature is to survive, and they are fighting for survival all their lives. Is it to adapt to the environment, or to break through the environment? Faced with such a morbid future, different people have their own ways.
In the film, people who try to adapt to the environment upgrade and mutate to become aliens. In order to survive in that huge spaceship in the boundless space, the same kind fought each other and became monsters after generations of genetic evolution. It can also be said that they degenerated into monsters with no language ability, only knowing the nature of foraging and reproduction. Maybe there is nothing wrong with surviving, but is it really right to sacrifice the same kind of living? Many times, the meaning of life is not just to live. There are only a few people on the hero and heroine's side who have been thinking about changing the status quo, and what they do is to break through the predicament. Keeping this pathological situation in check by breaking out of the environment continues.
Watching the film, I experienced the fear of being alone. The feeling of loneliness is especially evident in that vast universe and that large, enclosed spaceship.
What impressed me the most was the scene where the Asian man was eaten because of pity for the little alien. Was very angry at the time. That alien kid took advantage of human compassion. Humans are always like this. No matter what you face, you will instinctively carry human feelings. The Asian man is an example. He thought that young children have beautiful nature, but he ended up killing himself. The pity and sympathy for an inhuman alien who only knows how to hunt and reproduce is undoubtedly destroying himself.

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Pandorum quotes

  • Payton: Maybe this is a bad time to tell you, but the door is open.

    Bower: Are you fucking kidding me?

    Payton: Ya I'm kidding you.

  • Payton: We call it... pandorum.