A horror horror film can be scary, this is the most basic requirement; if the story is energy-efficient to trigger the audience to think about human nature, or have deeper and sharper metaphors, then this is an excellent horror film. Ridley Scott’s "Alien" was a classic more than 40 years ago. He has become a model for reference and imitation by countless latecomers. The most recent one follows the "Alien" tradition in the sci-fi thriller genre. There is nothing more tricky than this Russian director’s debut "Parasitic Alien" .
The film tells that during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, two Russian astronauts experienced a mysterious accident and only one of them returned to Earth. His behavior became weird and terrifying. The military recruited a female doctor to assist in the study of the astronaut. Later, the female doctor discovered an evil plan hidden behind the military, triggering a thrilling escape journey. The subject of aliens invading the human body in space is not new, and the fascinating feature of this debut is the script. The first half is full of suspense, and it does not directly describe the surviving astronauts, but spends a lot of pen and ink portraying female doctors and military leaders, which paves the way for the horror of the monsters afterwards. At the same time, the script closely combines the three characters (astronauts, female doctors and military generals) with the special background of the times, implying the psychological attitudes of different classes of the Soviet Union before the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
As a representative of the government’s authority, the general seemed to be sympathetic to the surviving astronauts at first, but as the plot developed and gradually unveiled his crazy research plan, he attempted to use alien biological weapons to dominate the world, which was confronted by the Soviet Union in the late Cold War. The West's besieged and desperate mentality coincides with each other. As an idealist, the female doctor not only wants to rescue the astronauts, but also those on death row who are treated as monster dishes. And the most complex and representative is the young astronaut. The widowed he did not hesitate to abandon his son in the orphanage in order to satisfy his ambition to be an astronaut, reflecting that the blind patriotism of that era made people selfish, greedy, and obliterated. Kindness and morality in human nature. In Hollywood's horror genre, monsters are often externalizations of the dark side of human nature , or political metaphors with autocratic meaning . The recently released "Quiet Place 2" is a clear example. The monster in the film that attacks humans as soon as the sound is heard is obviously the epitome of a dictator. The dictator cannot tolerate any opposition and discordant voices. Human life Under its control, he had to choose to silence. The film also has a similar political metaphor. This monster parasitizing the astronauts is not only a selfish and greedy presentation of the characters, but also seems to symbolize the malaise within the Soviet political system at that time. The female doctor thought research to separate the alien from the human body. In the end, it was discovered that it failed. The astronaut had to choose to commit suicide and die with the monster. This tragic ending obviously alluded to the end of the Soviet Union's final disintegration due to various social problems that were difficult to resolve. As a debut work, the director’s genre and technique are not jerky. From the shocking scenes, the horrible scenes of aliens entering and leaving the body, to the bloody violent portrayals, they are all available, bringing the audience to the senses. The pleasure of the film, and this politically implied script greatly enhances the film’s ideographic effect. The three characters are in an unsolvable predicament, no matter how hard they try, they can't win. This Camusian absurd idea makes the plot full of suspense and tension from beginning to end. This sense of powerlessness is more in line with the background of the story, making the film surpass the common type of production, revealing a historical and realistic reflection that cannot be ignored.
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