There is no doubt that "Prometheus" sells with a sense of mystery. This is clear from the huge posters I saw with Turnip in every subway in Paris in the early summer. Silver-gray, giant stone statues, humanoids that are not humans, and female pig's feet with horrified faces. Prometheus is originally a myth of nothingness, aliens are still nothingness conjectures, and aliens are nothingness movies. All kinds of nothingness meetings have refined the old question of nothingness: which chicken the human egg comes from. ? After hypothesizing this alien chicken, he continued to stubbornly ask a second new question of nothingness: Which egg did the alien chicken break its shell when we created our alien? There are endless questions about whether there is a chicken or children and grandchildren first. Grandpa Ridley Scott can live on the endless sequels of "Prometheus" for the rest of his life.
Too many viewers in China gave bad reviews such as "boring" and "cheating alien film", which made me almost miss this film that I had been looking forward to for more than half a year. After reading it for a long time, I have to sigh that the Chinese people's thinking ability still needs to be improved. I finally got used to Inception and Shutter Island's obviously high IQ works, and I don't know how to watch science fiction movies without adrenaline. The title was not originally called "Alien Prequel", and the theme is not in this alien variant at all. The audience can not buy the dark philosophy course of Mr. Scott, but they should also learn how to use their brains and then their mouths, and analyze them. The flaws in the film are not a low-level crusade blindly. I want to emphasize here that those friends who have not yet gone to the cinema, "Prometheus" is obviously not "Batman" or "The Amazing Spider-Man", you can already know by looking at the posters, entertainment is secondary, and nothingness is the protagonist. .
Because of nothingness, there are no fixed answers to all the doubts in the film. Strong people on the Internet have already made speculations about many issues one by one, so I don’t need to repeat other people’s old ways, just pick a few holes that no one pays attention to:
1. Why are all engineers male? At least according to our human gender, they are all hairless, breastless, muscular, and sturdy creatures. In the film, the head or body of the engineer appeared at least 5 times, without any exception, including the huge statues they built were also male faces. Several possibilities are: 1. This extraterrestrial life reproduces parthenosexually, which is the same as the original alien; 2. This species has no females, so it cannot give birth, so there is an engineer who sacrifices himself on earth. , Use your own DNA as an experiment to create both sexes; 3. Women stay on their home planet, and we can only see the beauty in the sequel. In addition, whether it is because of the racial superiority of the Caucasians or the limitations of his own imagination, Scott, as a British, has portrayed the engineer who created humans into a tall, bald version of the white image, with a high nose, deep eye sockets, and gray skin. According to what he said, we yellow people will take our black friends to find our ancestors separately. Anyway, it must not be these super Saiyans...
2. The octopus alien created by Elizabeth’s pregnancy has been lost after being separated from the mother. In order to supplement the source of energy, why would it grow from the size of a baby to the size of a laboratory after losing the supply for such a long time? This is completely inconsistent with the law of conservation of the universe’s mutual transformation of energy and matter. The key to the breeding of aliens is the host. Because aliens mutate from bugs, it is also a super bug. The host is the only prerequisite for alien energy, material, genetic mutation, and so on. So my question is not to provoke, but to question why the film violates the basic principles of this sci-fi series.
3. Two archaeologists and couples on the earth discovered the alien murals in many ancient caves in the world and determined that the planet pointed to in the picture is the end point that engineers "invited" or "seduce" human beings. Then there are only a few possible purposes: this planet is the hometown of engineers; this planet is the experimental base for engineers, they want human beings to come to this evil soil full of alien seeds to destroy themselves when the technology has developed to a certain level; this The planet is the hometown of aliens. With simple logic, we can know that the first judgment is definitely unreasonable, because the air on this planet is not suitable for humans and engineers who match human DNA; the third judgment is definitely unreasonable, because aliens are also present. It’s bred in the air environment that simulates the earth; so there is only a second judgment left, but it is not logically possible. From the video of the holographic image, it can be seen that the destination of the spacecraft was set to earth long ago. If the engineer’s The plan is to eliminate mankind, and the spacecraft should be automatically activated to fly to the earth. Why should the earthlings be drawn over? Obviously, there is a big time difference between the painting of the mural and the accident of the alien massacre engineer. However, we don't know what happened in the middle, so we can't understand the development of the plot.
4. Regarding the black liquid. How important this medium is, just look at its appearance in three key links to know: the opening part, the engineer drank it; the first middle part, David poisoned Dr. Holloway; the second part, two 2B geology Home and biologist were infected after direct contact with black liquid. We can sum it up: Engineers drink black liquid to create human beings, and humans drink black liquid (or after conception) to create primary aliens—the corollary: Engineers cannot create aliens directly, and the creation of aliens must go through the intermediary of humans. So, can we boldly guess this logical sequence: the creation result that engineers want is not human, human beings are just excessive products, acting as a catalyst, what they really want to create is the perfect Zerg, just like in their sacrificial space The image depicted in the sculpture mural. According to our human thinking habits, when will certain non-human images be placed in a sacred place for worship? There are snakes in ancient Egyptian pyramids because they believe that snakes are their protectors; there is Jesus in Christian churches because believers believe that he is God (the messenger of God); there are ghosts and gods in temples all over China because the Chinese believe that people Fearful ghosts and gods can scare away evil-so engineers mainly worship their own heads, perhaps some great leader of their clan, surrounded by Zerg decorations. These Zergs are the protectors believed by the engineer planet? God? Or is it a weapon? Now using the method of elimination, if according to the above summary, the engineer is the indirect creator of Alien, Alien cannot be the creator of the engineer (God/God); Alien is obviously not the protector of the engineer, from the pile of bones of the engineer. It can be seen that they were attacked by aliens, and the heads chopped off by the door also proved that aliens use engineers as hosts; there is only one reason left: Zergs are ghosts/weapons that engineers fear and respect. It is speculated that this creature was produced by humans. After losing control, the race was attacked by aliens, and the resentment of the surviving engineers towards humans was born from this. Suddenly I think of Kant's supreme good, the absolute good above all morals and ethics is the highest good in the universe. If the truth is that human beings exist for the birth of evil, should they be destroyed?
5. What is the necessary reason for the role of the daughter of super rich Weyland? Is it to make the glamorous nine-headed body Theron increase the sales rate? Because besides this, I can’t find any powerful explanations to prove that the rich second generation’s imposing appearance and the inexplicable death have the function of serving the plot to exaggerate emotions... She hates the robot David, and spends a lot of money with hatred. The dad who is afraid of death, who is looking for longevity medicine, looks down on anyone of the same kind except herself. As the owner of the ship, he insists on principles (but has little prestige). He is indeed a character with personality. So what? Dad is as greedy for life and fear of death. Scott, why on earth are you spending so much money to invite beautiful women to play bad guys?
I agree with most people's perception that 80% of the film's success is focused on David. His actor is our handsome and rebellious X-Men Magneto! David did a lot of terribly bad things, and even said a lot of terrific dialogue: "big things have small beginnings." "To create something, one must destroy first." "The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts." Many film reviews call David a robot. He is modeled after a human being. His job is to serve the owner who sets up programs for him. It is indeed like a robot, but several points clearly show that David is not in the traditional sense. The robot, one. David does not obey the orders of human beings and will lie. For example, when he opened the door of the gods and had received a denial instruction from the crowd, he opened the door and quickly lied in the name of "accidentally"; 2. He He has an independent emotional response and he is good at disguising his true feelings. For example, when Holloway laughed at him as a very human being, David immediately replied gently, "I hope not too much like". David has no human suffering, because he knows who his creator is, and he also knows that the meaning of his existence is to serve mankind, and his purpose is very clear, which is to destroy his "parents" ─ ─ mankind is also to obtain new Higher life value. The truth of this world is like this: when you are in a baby state, you admire your omnipotent parent; when your creator is aloft, you respect and fear; when you get along with your creator day and night, drinking and talking about the mountains, You have discovered his various weaknesses; when you surpass your creator time and time again, you want to reverse the relationship between creation and creation to prove your superiority. Are you afraid? So I am not that interested in having children, wow haha.
For me, Elizabeth is the so-called true scientist who is quite successful in the film. What she wants to find is the truth, but she understands that the journey to the truth cannot be "at all costs" (the extreme science school represented by Holloway); she puts life out of focus, because she believes in goodness to protect the earth and humanity , She believes in science, and she believes in goodness even more (so she still chooses to wear the cross that she has worn since she was a child after she is convinced that engineers are their creators); she forgives David, who killed her lover, at the end of the film. It is to continue her search for the truth. Her scientific spirit surpasses the secular emotions and desires. It is convincing... I am curious that when she is about to open Pandora’s box and discover the absolute good in the universe, she will do it again. What choice do you make?
May Scott go to infinity in this discussion of nothingness. Looking forward to the sequel, the sequel, and the sequel.
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