Create me, destroy me. -"Prometheus"

Leonel 2022-03-20 09:01:07

Is life a word created by God? What did the Big Bang prove?

Human beings come from the theory of evolution? Why does the fossil evidence between apes and humans break? Why 90% of life on Earth did not appear in the 4.6 billion years before the earth’s 4 billion years of history, but broke out in the short 1% of the Cambrian’s historical moment , Suddenly the evidence of life on the earth?

Prometheus used a DNA verification strip to prove that humans and "engineers" have the same genetic code. In the proposition of the origin of mankind, Ridley Scott gave us a choice. We came from the creation of an extraterrestrial civilization. And tell us with a cruel story that the emergence of human beings is not what we think and is full of mystery and noble purposes as in legends everywhere. Maybe it's just an experiment, just because more advanced civilizations can do it. This is just like when we create robots and clone sheep. If I can create intelligent life, I don’t think I can hold back from opening this box.

This is an unacceptable view. This discovery may shake the foundation of humanity-the existence of the supreme truth in consciousness in most religious beliefs, such as God, and our ability to think we are above destiny. Apart from this "arrogant" human mentality, perhaps we will eventually find that all the dignity of life and self-righteousness that we are proud of, the entire universe may be just a huge design or a practice of the creator, just doing Conducted an experiment, and then erased the remaining traces of this experiment.

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huge terrain and the inanimate planet, the engineer drinks an organism, and then dissolves his own life genes on the planet, and various reorganizations form a new life form. There is a human being with the same DNA, and why engineers sacrificed themselves on this planet to give birth to intelligent life, it is not known. Perhaps like the story of Prometheus, metaphor brings intelligent life to the earth. There is a saying abroad that humans are called Children of Prometheus: Children of Prometheus, I guess the title comes from this.

I understand that engineers created humans, and because the Elizabeths were able to find the starry sky map of engineers everywhere, the engineer team was not only the seeder at the beginning, but also came to the earth to leave behind various civilized practices, maybe once. Secondly, design or "adjust and reprocess" life genes into intelligent life of human beings. So at the very beginning, the experimenter engineers didn’t want to obliterate human beings. As for the later speculation about why engineers would destroy human beings, I will add later.

Speaking of the discovery of the starry sky map by the Elizabeths, because the starry sky map was impossible for early humans to observe, it can be judged that it is the information left by engineers to humans. That is to say, engineers are aware of the development of human intelligence and can be in the future. Understand this starry sky map. Therefore, Elizabeth Shaw believes that this is an invitation, a communication invitation from the Creator. So they found a sponsor and built the Prometheus to find the creator according to the star map, which is also the inevitable development of the story.

When the spacecraft flies to the creator, it shows a series of shots of David or David's bionic robot, one of the protagonists in the film. He likes to watch movies, especially Lawrence of Arabia, to look at the dreams of others, and to imitate and feel humans as much as possible. . According to the movie, David was created by the boss of Weyland, the company that sponsored the expedition, based on the image of his dead son. It has been created for a long time, so the previous shots are all to show David. (Michael Fassbender)’s degree of intelligence, and it’s clear that bionic humans are not restricted by Asimodo’s three laws of robotics.

Because of David’s learning ability and no hibernation time, he is also the person on the spacecraft who is most familiar with the language of the creator engineer, so we can’t limit David to an inactive object like a robot. These conditions can be established. In the later plot development, it can be said that David has "wisdom", but lacks the soul mentioned in the movie.

The main part of the feature film is actually the story that the human team discovered the remains of the creator after Prometheus arrived on that planet, and then went back and forth between the ruins and the spacecraft.

First contact: The three cannon fodder scientists, the Elizabeth couple and the six Davids went to search for the ruins for the first time. David opened a holographic image based on the alien language. Several engineers seemed to encounter some kind of danger in the passage. Running to help them find the first main site of the ruins, there are huge religious avatars and many metal cans in the scene. Everyone got the corpse of an engineer and a good head of the creator engineer. In the screen, you can see the explorer stepping on the ground in the scene, there are small objects similar to earthworms. Because the expedition opened a closed scene, the metal cans in the scene changed, and it seemed that black water-like substances continued to flow out. Before everyone could explore further information, due to a storm on the surface of the planet, they urgently needed to return to the Prometheus. In a hurry, the Elizabeths brought back the head of the engineer, while David brought back a bottle of metal can. Because of the development of the plot, the two scientists were left in the ruins because they were lost.

Back to Prometheus. The Elizabeths inspected their heads and found that their heads were infected with a virus. They activated the virus and caused the head to explode. The clues obtained showed that the DNA of the human and the engineer’s corpse was the same based on the carbon weft fiber inspection, proving the hypothesis that the human came from the engineer. Charlie was frustrated because he didn't find a living engineer to have a conversation. David poured the black water in the metal can into the wine and asked Charlie to drink it. Charlie later had sex with Elizabeth. Prometheus discovered that the ruins were a spacecraft, and there was a trace of life in the detected place, which left a foreshadowing. The two engineers who remained in the ruins returned to Ruins Scene One and were attacked by unknown organisms and died. According to the understanding of the camera, the tiny earthworms in the scene were infected with black water to form new unknown organisms, similar to the king cobra. It is generally said that the life forms infected by black water are all aliens. Eliminating the need for plot development, the Prometheus was unattended, nothing was observed, and there was no video.

The next day, Check Haircut found that he was not feeling well. Because the captain did not contact the two scientists left in the spacecraft left by the Creator's Relic the next day, the group entered the spacecraft again. Find the corpse in scene 1. At the same time Charlie's body changed drastically, the group must return to Prometheus, and David came to another unknown scene detected last night, which is the same as the scene where the space jockey was found in Alien 1. , It should be the control cabin of the spacecraft. David discovered that the purpose of the spacecraft to fly is the earth and a living engineer in hibernation. (This 3D special effect is great) Charlize Theron, the head of the Prometheus Weyland, did not allow Charlie to board the ship, Charlie gave up and was burned to death, and Elizabeth fainted. David inspected Elizabeth and found that there was an abnormal shape in Elizabeth's belly, which was "mature" at an alarming speed. Elizabeth asked for an abortion to remove the abnormal shape in her belly, and David refused to control her. After Elizabeth woke up again, she pretended to be stunned and stunned the others, and entered a medical cabin with an automated shell operation to take out the abnormal shape in her stomach (this paragraph is very horrifying), thinking that she had already wiped it out in the cabin. Then I found that Weyland's boss, the founder, was on the spacecraft. He stated that the purpose of sponsoring this operation was to communicate with the creator engineer and achieve the goal of not dying. Elizabeth said that there was something terrifying on the spaceship, and the creator was not what she thought. But Weyland insisted on going, and Elizabeth also came to the ruins spaceship for the third time in order to clarify the doubts in her heart.

In scene 2 of the space capsule, a group of people awakened the engineer. Without any answers or communication, the engineer killed all the group except Elizabeth. Except for the bionic David, only the body and the head were separated. Elizabeth ran out of the spaceship, the engineer Start the spacecraft to fly to the earth. Elizabeth called the captain and the others on the Prometheus, saying that the destination of the creator engineer was to fly to the earth, to destroy life on the earth from the terrifying aliens in the metal tank, and to do everything possible to stop the spacecraft, the captain would take The emergency rescue part with the operation cabin escaped, and then hit the engineer's spacecraft head-on. As a result, the engineer's spacecraft made an emergency landing, and finally, only Elizabeth was left on the Prometheus. Elizabeth went to find the emergency rescue capsule that had escaped. In the operating room of the rescue capsule, she found that the alien that was extracted from the body was not dead and was turning into a horrible thing. At this time, David's voice came to inform her that the engineer He was not dead, and was running towards her. So Elizabeth led the engineer to the alien and ran away by herself. David, who was physically separated and unable to move, contacted Elizabeth, hoping to get help, and he said that he knew there were other engineer spacecraft on this planet that could take her out of here, but Elizabeth said that he wanted to find the original home planet of the engineer to get the answer.

So, in the end, the spacecraft flew away from the planet, and the engineer’s chest in the rescue capsule was broken open in the life-saving capsule by the oversized alien elementary-stage enveloped face in "Alien I" (Finally, the familiar alien that passed through your chest appeared. Face), aliens similar to the traditional series finally appeared.

The film is over.

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Ridley Scott's film started early He said that this film is not an alien prequel, but a new starting point before the alien timeline, and he said that there are at least two movies between Alien 1 and Prometheus. This shows that Ridley Scott's ambition is to start a new series. Therefore, Prometheus’ conception and layout are very big, and digging pits everywhere has formed too many questions, and the whole article of Prometheus has not been fully answered, and many parts are based on the settings of the alien series. To understand.

Why did Elizabeth go to find the home star in the end? Why did David want to infect Charlie?

I think this is actually an answer. First of all, we need to know that Elizabeth is a very idealistic person. The couple are looking for engineers to get answers, just like Elizabeth’s question of engineers in the film, why did we create us, and why did we create them again? Annihilate us. Although the film borrowed from David's words, it was said that creation was possible only because it could be done, but in the end Elizabeth's independent search also opened up a new possibility for the answer of Prometheus's sequel to further elaborate on the origin of mankind. David is a bionic robot with self-consciousness. Human beings are to him as the creator is to humans. Humans are looking for answers. Why not? His self-awareness is a kind of self-seeking. He keeps learning human emotions. And the feelings given to him by knowledge, imitating human beings, is to obtain what he thinks is the "freedom" of the soul, a kind of free consciousness separated from the hands of the creator humans. The evolution and development of species is a simple to complex, low-level to high-level The process of evolution; when a species has produced a certain or equivalent intelligence, it can slowly create ideas in its survival activities; and the way of thinking can promote the evolution and development of intelligence-until it has a higher intelligence and When you master rational thinking, the desire for curiosity and inquiry appears. Intellectual thinking improves the way of thinking, and the way of thinking gives birth to a kind of subjectivity, independent thinking and rational thinking. In the film Elizabeth seeks the answer to the origin of mankind, and David seeks the birth of self-consciousness, which we can understand as the individual actions brought about by the respective thinking answers to the birth of two intelligent lives. Compared with engineers, human beings are born with self-awareness, so human beings have a level awareness of engineers. And I feel that David’s freedom to search for mankind, and even in the film, is this “equality” in self-consciousness. In the ruins, when the creator’s knowledge appears in front of David, at this time the creator and the human ruins are bionic The level of human David is blurred. Because David is the one who knows engineers best in communication, David must be the first to realize that the "alien" in the metal can is used to affect humans, so he completed the infection part. It is to infect Charlie. In the final analysis, it is an experiment. If you can explore the specific causal and logical relationship between humans and engineers, it will be helpful to the "freedom" you seek.

What is the object in the metal can?

It is an organism, it is explained in the movie, and it also tells the infectious power and harmfulness of this organism. It is not known whether the engineer infected with this virus-like organism, but it is certain that these metal tanks are to act on the earth first, and secondly, the organisms in the metal tanks are alien objects. The entire spacecraft may be a research and development base, and the metal tank is the viral weapon developed. Blackwater virus-like organisms can infect different organisms, and they have evolved different alien shapes based on the genetic information and DNA of the organisms. Therefore, the cobra-like shapes formed by earthworms infected by blackwater and the alien shapes produced by the embryo infection engineers have different shapes. The same shape. Alien series Some people say that Alien is more like a genetically simpler, superior and advanced life weapon. It is immersed, absorbed, and evolved. Apart from biological instinct, Alien has begun to have initial intelligence. And there is a mural on the huge head in scene 1, and in the middle is the huge relief of alien-shaped cross spread out like Jesus. The alien-shaped black water organism may not be a biochemical weapon developed by engineers and them, but a creature that existed earlier. , May be the birth and nurturing source of a higher level of life, with unlimited possible explanations.

Why did the Creator destroy mankind?

My personal guess is that it is because of mankind itself. The black forest theory in the three-body theory is very good, but the three-body is to explore outer space, and Prometheus is looking for it from the source. Any civilization is the first to survive. When you find that the things you do in your experiments threaten yourself Will the opportunity or ability to prevent this happening? Therefore, the creator's choice to destroy the civilization is based on survival instinct in the final analysis. When an intellectual being has self-awareness, it means that it is out of control, and it may be dangerous if it is out of control. The best option is to eliminate the possibility of danger. The engineer's body shows that the time of the engineer's death was 2,000 years ago, just at the beginning of the AD. Some people say that humans are rapidly evolving demons. Throughout the history of human development, human civilization has shown a strong aggressiveness. Perhaps engineers discovered the aggressiveness of such intelligent creatures as humans and decided to eliminate humans.

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Father Ridley Scott is 75 years old. He has made countless good movies in his life. Various types and scenes have created many admirable movies. It stands to reason that he should be young at this age. People enjoy their old age, but the old man is obviously not satisfied. The science fiction horror series Alien was filmed by different directors, and peripheral movies such as Alien vs. Special Blood Warriors were developed. The father decided to withdraw from the history of Alien 1. Part of the plan is to re-create a series, but this time the layout and themes have merged into a deeper concept. Although the old man has already filmed Blade Runner before, Prometheus is more sci-fi epic and more rare. It's the old man who doesn't want to just start at this age. It’s just a pity that when Alien was first filmed, the old man didn’t think about making a prequel. The biggest charm of Alien during the Cold War was the original industrial metallic film design and the sense of horror in the special claustrophobic environment. There is no extension of human nature, so the explanations of the various scene products in Alien 1 are all explained. The old man pulls the Alien’s timeline forward and uses the Alien’s settings to reconstruct a story that suits him. In many places, there are some flaws that are difficult to explain, and there is a feeling of being strong. Although the whole film is complete, Prometheus still uses vague language in many places. It can be guessed that the most important thing is the source and function of the black water. Whether the black water that the engineer first drank is consistent with the product that generated the alien, and the evolutionary line of the alien. The connection between the two may be in the sequel of Prometheus. Can explain further.

The plot is actually quite simple, but the amount of information in the movie commentary is large, and the whole movie is filled with dissatisfaction. The roles of actors are actually limited. For example, Charlie played by Logan and Willando of Gapierce have become typical. Instead, the heroine of the dragon tattoo girl did not perform well in such a big scene. It was completely robbed by David Fasha. If the daughters Charlize Theron and David can With more interaction and entanglement, David's "awakening" can be better reflected, because in my opinion, Charlize Theron's role setting should play this role, otherwise it is unnecessary.

Fa Sha is the core of this movie. The Alien series of Bionics are all available, but this one is the most outstanding. David is a difficult character. He has to perform deep psychological factors and unpredictable behavior patterns, and he has to perform with a cold face. David's exquisite indifferent face and smart eyes in the film can see the indifference Wisdom, everyone on the ship has become his chess experiment. Prometheus's entire plot development is driven by him. Fassbender's performance enhances the charm of the entire film in the actor.

Sometimes I wonder if I didn't insist on the alien series, would it be better to tell such a theme. But then I thought that if it weren't for the charisma symbol of Alien, Prometheus might not have such a big additional charm. So in the final analysis, does Ridley Scott want to tell a topic, or tell a story about an alien, or whether he is so ambition to do it.

Wait Prometheus 2.

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Unrefined Tucao: The large squid in the operating cabin has become so big that it is purely to attack the engineer with a huge body. This is the difference between the size of the alien in Alien 1 which is just the size of the face. too big.

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  • Conor 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    There are a few scenes that directly make me feel "kneeling". I think it's better than the Alien Quadruple. The following sentence is fierce: Kill Avatar and the Tree of Life in seconds.

  • Lilyan 2021-10-20 18:59:12

    When the alien spacecraft flew up, I really wanted to say: What a big croissant!

Prometheus quotes

  • Young Shaw: [on the ship, Prometheus, David checks on the crew who are in hypersleep, he gazes upon Shaw and sees what she's dreaming of, which is from her childhood when she is with her father in a foreign land looking at a funeral procession] What happened to that man?

    Shaw's Father: He died.

    Young Shaw: Why aren't you helping them?

    Shaw's Father: They don't want my help. Their God is different than ours.

    Young Shaw: Why did he die?

    Shaw's Father: Sooner or later everyone does.

    Young Shaw: Like mommy?

    Shaw's Father: Like mommy.

    Young Shaw: Where do they go?

    Shaw's Father: Everyone has their own word; heaven, paradise. Whatever it's called, it's someplace beautiful.

    Young Shaw: How do you know it's beautiful?

    Shaw's Father: Cause that's what I choose to believe. What do you believe, darling?

    [at that point David comes out of watching he dream]

  • Elizabeth Shaw: [to the Engineer] Why do you hate us?