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If you count the classic female images in the movie, with black curly short hair and generous face, Ripley wearing neutral overalls is a role that fans can’t ignore. She is so strong, courageous, and tough, and the mysterious and cruel alien on the opposite side quickly does it. He made the right choice, and did not give up his desire to survive in the desperate situation of claustrophobia, and still chose to fight to the end. She was completely different from the blonde sweet girls and sexy girls who were popular in Hollywood at the time. She was full of convincing power. She was not a vassal, not an embellishment, but a partner who could trust in life and death, and even a leader who could point the way. And her performance from "Alien" to "Alien 4" spanning over 18 years also fully demonstrates the audience's recognition of the female image on the screen. Most people choose to grow flowers and drink tea to maintain their old age, but Ridley Scott is still active at work. He directed "Martian Rescue" in 2015 and "Alien·Contract" in 2017, maintaining a strong creative force. After earning the honor of the Lifetime Achievement Award, he moved to the small screen. In this September, he launched HBO Max with the American drama "Cataclysm".
The English name of "Raised by wolves" is "Raised by wolves". If you look at this name and the screenshot of this trailer, you are very capable-it is full of futuristic science fiction and some violent and bloody horror. In fact, the translation of "Alien Cataclysm" is not very apt, I think it can be called "Rise of the Wolf Star". The main line of the story is the immigrant alien. The earth a long time later, due to nuclear war and environmental problems, was no longer suitable for human habitation. Two artificial humans came to Kepler 22b with human embryos to spread the fire of civilization and gave birth to six human children. The two cyborgs acted as the children's mother and father, reclaiming and planting on wild aliens, building houses, weaving and sewing clothes, apart from high-tech auxiliary equipment, they are completely reclaimers from scratch.
Kepler 22b is a desolate planet, with yellow sand on the ground, strange terrain, large temperature difference between day and night, and it does not look very livable. At the beginning of the first episode, the spacecraft driven by Mother and Father fell into a huge pit. As the picture was pulled up, the surface was covered with such huge bottomless and weird pits, like the nests of some primitive behemoths. It's also like the wreckage of an abandoned military base, which is disturbing. Mother and Father dug out many huge bones in the soil. Only when the bones are buried in the soil can the land have the energy to grow Kepler 22b's only edible crop-carbon fruit. Carbon fruit fields are arranged on the ground like mosquito coils. Seen from the air, the strange circle looks like a serpent.
When Father was exploring the deep pit, there were a few strands of debris hanging on the smooth wall of the cave, which looked like transparent plastic, and it was reminiscent of sloughed snake skin...The gray-green and yellow-brown color of the picture gave The plot is infected with a layer of gloomy birds, full of horror. The picture of "Alien Cataclysm" has a similar taste to "Prometheus" which is also directed by Ridley.
Will robots dream of sheep? Can artificial humans successfully raise humans? The family structure across species is quite bizarre and bold. The explanation given in the plot is that due to the earth’s nuclear war and environmental pollution, religion has regained control of the world, and the Holy See occupies most of the wealth and knowledge of human society and has become arrogant and corrupt. At the time of destruction, atheism gathered together to resist. Someone modified the setting procedures of two artificial humans so that they defected with human embryos and went to a strange planet to build a world without religion.
The play is full of mythological metaphors-Mythic costumes are in the style of crusaders, they also have the ritual of drinking holy blood and eating holy bread during prayers, wearing a sun sign on their chests, and the god Sol they worship— —Sol, is the goddess of the sun in Norse mythology; when Mother met Marcus in the first episode, she said she was called Lamia. In Greek mythology, Hera killed Lamia’s child, she went crazy and became a half-man The half-snake monster went everywhere to eat other people's children. Hera cast a spell to torture her, making her eyes repeat the scene of her child being killed, so Zeus cast a spell so that she could take off her eyes and go to sleep at night. Mother’s weapon is her eyes. When the Mitt teaches the child away forcibly, she transforms in anger. After becoming a spirit caller, Mother kills a spaceship by herself. The truth is to meet the gods and kill the gods and the Buddha. In the second episode, Mother took off her eyes and hid her under the floor because she was worried about hurting her child. In mythology, Rome originated from a wolf child. Two babies abandoned by humans were brought to the river by she-wolves who came to drink water. Rescued, the she-wolf raised the two children with wolf's milk. The grown-up child overthrew the original kingdom, and his brother established Rome.
When Mother gave birth to an embryo, Campion, the last child, did not breathe. Father suggested to deal with him, but Mother couldn’t bear to hold Campion tightly to her chest, crying while humming a funeral song for atheism. At this time a miracle was born, and Campion came alive. Like a she-wolf, Mother gave Campion life.
In the camp, Mother is the absolute leader, Father is just a simple service humanoid, with a docile personality and a simple mind. Even if there are differences of opinion, it is Mother who wins in the end. Most of the time, except for not allowing the children to pray and play by the side of the deep pit, at other times, she smiled lovingly, took care of Tanguo, cooked porridge for the children, built houses on the rocks with branches, and weaving plants. She uses fiber to make clothes. At night, she also tells stories to the children. From these perspectives, she does look like a mother, and at least takes good care of the children in life. This camp consisting of two cyborgs and six human children can be regarded as a miniature matriarchal society. However, over time, cracks appeared in the camp. In the past nine years, the children have gradually grown up. First, the Asian girl Tali went to the pit to play and disappeared strangely. Then other children began to cough and fell ill. Only one of the last six children survived, Campion. , He is born to resist radiation. Mother strictly forbids Campion to have faith, but every time he loses a sibling, the little heart becomes more frightened and confused, and the more he wants to find sustenance. Campion began to pray with Mother on his back, and began to question Mother's practices. The long-term desolate and lonely life made him have a great affection and yearning for distant places and humans. When the Mythic colonial spacecraft followed the signal to Kepler 22b, Campion opened his mouth to drive these humans away. At the time, I begged Mother to let these warriors and priests stay overnight. This was due to the goodwill and curiosity of human beings, and it also meant to unconsciously resist Mother's authority. It is a pity that curiosity brought disaster. The Mithocracy planned to forcibly take Campion away and wound mather. The angry Mother transformed and destroyed all the ships that came to Kepler 22b. And Campion, who saw the terrifying power of Mother for the first time, could no longer treat her as a pure caregiver psychologically.
Mother took the surviving children from the spaceship home and let them live with Campion. Under control, there will always be a rebound, and normal children will be rebellious to their mothers, not to mention an inhuman alien contaminated with human blood. When Mother was telling a story to the new child at the dinner table, Campion interrupted her very roughly, saying that she was tired of listening. The story Mother told the children was three little pigs. The scene that appeared with the sound was that they were building a house together with a close-up of Mother’s face, and then reminiscent of the little pig and the wolf in the fairy tale. Who is the little pig? Who is the wolf referring to? Why did Mother tell the child this story? The children are full of restlessness, and no one regards Mother as a pure caregiver anymore. She is an outlier with a super-strength value. What purpose does she use to raise human children? Is she the shelter of the child or the wolf that eats the pig? The new kid only used one sentence to dissolve all Campion’s trust in his mother. He began to suspect that it was Mother who killed the five children, just like the big bad wolf in the story, blowing down the house with his nose. , Swallow the piglet in one bite. The children formed an alliance and conspired to escape. Father was forced to shut down by Mother before, and she was under dubious surveillance. Campion deceived Father with only a few minor tricks, and led his friends to the rolling mountains. Everyone turned around when Mother was a bloody servant. Kepler 22b, who has never seen an animal, appeared in the twilight of the evening, and a monster walking on all fours appeared. They were swift and hairless, cruel and disgusting. The wolf in the story appeared. Father also discovered that as soon as the charcoal fruit was picked, the nuclear radiation in the core would contaminate the pulp. The reason why the children got sick one after another was because they had eaten radiation-containing food, and it was not Mother who harmed them. The camp was calm again, but the calm was only temporary. The children who believed in Mythicism and the mother of atheism, and the Mythic survivors who were waiting for an opportunity, still had a bigger and more intense conflict.
In Ridley's films, the artificial people are mostly evil. The creation always betrays the creator. David, who is shaped in Alien and Prometheus, is unwilling to be a slave because he has consciousness, and then wants to kill humans. The creator always regrets the work and wants to destroy the creation. In Prometheus, the giant who created humans and wanted to use aliens to destroy humans; found that artificial humans have strange intentions, the first reaction of humans is to destroy artificial humans . In Ridley's world, the creator and the created are opposites, and the setting of this opposite is built on the core of the'creation'. The qualifications to create the world and create human beings are the subconscious desires of intelligent creatures that cannot be given up. They are hailed as the greatest glory. This glory is not allowed to be desecrated and deprived. In order to defend the glory, the two camps will fight endlessly. Ripley gave up the female instinctive desire to nurture, so she became strong, able to fight the aliens that others had seen. Mother was to protect the child and transform into a powerful spiritual caller. At the same time as her motherhood was awakened, she seemed to have Got my own thoughts. The image of Mother can be said to be the least female character on the screen, with a small head, flat figure, genderless clothing, and lethality beyond imagination. In fact, humanoids do not need gender at all, but the crew has been emphasizing "Women make people", her name in the play is also replaced by Mother, with the most feminine appearance with the most feminine connotation, which seems to imply that this character is both wolfish and maternal, just like a woman is conceived. And the positive side of consecration and the negative side of devouring and destroying.
In this way, cyborgs are not cyborgs, Mother is the epitome of every human mother, who gathers and magnifies all the characteristics of women in her body. The relationship between Mother and Campion is not just a struggle for belief, but a struggle for subconscious control between mother and son, and a struggle for growth space. Did the she-wolf domesticate the little wolf and build a godless world, or did the children defeat the she-wolf, and the prophet led the crowd to build Rome on an alien planet? If the subsequent episodes can maintain the level of the first three episodes, I believe Mother will be one of the most complex female characters on the screen-transcending good and evil, with both the coldest reason and the most passionate emotions, peeling away with the identity of a human being The most sacred coat of maternal love reveals the cruelest and truest side. "Alien Cataclysm" once again redefines female power. It is not only a neutral appearance, not only a strong body, but also not only wisdom, not only external courage, but also internal courage. Regarding desire, you must have the courage to face your ugly side. In one sentence, it is the ability of self-consistent and reconciliation, and this is precisely the root of female power.
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