Interestingly, the intelligent creatures of the "Alien" series often hold not parental affection, but hostility towards their own children.
Engineers created human beings, but sent a biological weapon ship to exterminate the clan; human beings created biochemical humans, and then regarded them as servants, only Ripley went from great hatred to great love, but Ripley gave birth to herself. The aliens don't have much favor. Only in this episode of "Alien: Covenant" (Alien: Covenant) the biochemical man David, he is so exceptional, while taking care of the aliens he created, while taking advantage of the human who created him as a dog, even He committed a crime of murdering his ancestors, which was more serious than murdering his father—destroying the engineer family.
why?
to be honest. There is no point in discussing this matter. Just this afternoon, netizens reposted an interview related to the Empire Podcast . Riley Scott himself said that the key plot of "Alien: Covenant": The reason why David wanted to kill all the engineers was because they lacked support for the victims. Respect for creatures. But what actually happened, like why did David want to kill all the engineers? Why can't Dr. Xiao take care of David? How did David and Dr. Shaw live during their ten years on Engineer Planet? Wait, everything will be answered in the next episode of "Alien: Awakening" (tentative), which will be filmed in this series, because this film is not a sequel, but a story time and space between "Alien" (Alien), "Prome" After Prometheus, but slightly earlier than Alien: Covenant. In other words, it's a "prequel to a prequel."
As a film reviewer, it's frustrating to see such a film official. "Alien: Covenant" may be my favorite episode in the whole series, but the audience is in vain, because no matter how we look, how we talk, and how we justify ourselves, we can always be turned over by a new film in a few years; and the official three The occasional off-screen propaganda always blurts out the key plot earlier than the people in the play, as if the pedigree of the "Alien" series that crosses the film, video game, graphic novel platform is not big enough and complicated enough, and even the official history film has to be filmed in half. Leave half of the toothpaste-squeezing marketing - "Alien: Covenant" at this moment, as "the prequel of the prequel, the prequel," is destined to be a incomplete sequel with no beginning and no ending.
However, is this the first time? Just as the Xenomorph's reproductive method is to host, cannibalize another creature's body and then break its chest to form, the "Alien" film series is also shot like a parasite, and the sequel's bones are always selfish and deformed.
The original Alien was a film about space. The crew is the sacrifice of ignorance, and the aliens are the priests of innocence. However, the most attractive thing in the movie is the altar itself. The astronauts are forced to be helpless by alien mysterious monsters on the spaceship. Combined, the violent alienation of the sense of space creates a more terrifying contrast. However, "Aliens 2" (Aliens) has changed. The sense of horror has changed from a space mutation to a simple monster. The human mother can break into the alien lair and get out of the body. The alien mother breaks into the human base but is abused. 'Alien³' denies 'Alien 2' return to backroom thriller (albeit with more emphasis on human conflict), 'Alien: Resurrection' denies 'Alien 3' turning into sitcom and stardom A strange mix of ship warlords, not to mention the "Alien vs. Predator" series linked to the ultimate warrior... The
story continues, but the style changes. Ripley's roar in the second episode seemed to be uncontrollable: "How many different ways do you want the same story?" (How many different ways do you want the same story?) There are a lot of sequel movies, but a series like the "Alien" series only has four episodes, but each episode starts with the backbone of the previous episode, which is completely rare.
In this light, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are interesting. If the filming method of episodes 1, 2, 3 and 4 of "Alien" is like the living parasite of Xenomorph, thinking, fighting and walking while filming, "Prometheus", "Alien: Covenant", "Alien: Awakening" this one The way of shooting is like the reproduction of biochemical people, the setting is coherent and the theme is passed on from generation to generation. Because "Prometheus" was originally the director of "Alien 1", Riley Scott used the name of the prequel to pull the entire series from the second, third and fourth episodes and the rumors back to the "about two civilizations" he hoped in 1979. The Alien Sequel to Collision. In fact, the pedigree of this new trilogy (or more) really has nothing to do with xenomorphs, but more like a sci-fi version of Genesis that includes the xenomorph species.
"Monsters are already in the past tense, and there is no need to repeat the old tune." Riley Scott said in 2013; and the present tense of the story has quietly turned to the cyborg.
There is no doubt that "Alien: Covenant" is a story belonging to the cyborg David.
"Covenant" has one of the most poetic opening scenes of the entire series. In the play, the newly born David and his creator are in a milky white room filled with beautiful things created by humans such as pianos, oil paintings, crafts, and stereo projections. David was playing the piano. When the creator asked him to pour tea, he poured it, but what he thought was: "Why don't you pour it yourself?" On the contrary, he felt that he was the only owner in the room, because this biochemical man didn't think from the bottom of his heart that a short-lived human being was qualified to be his god.
It does. Who was the human beside David? The scientists of the Prometheus were a group of idiots who blatantly smoked in alien territory, and the colonial crew of the Covenant were the dumbest group in the history of the "Alien" series. In the jungle where the plants are dense, the uncle takes samples on the spot, and puts the automatic rover without rushing around... He claims to have been trained professionally for ten years, but he is like ten years old when he is dealing with emergencies. To paraphrase the biologist's dialogue, "I represent the whole world. On behalf of scientists everywhere, I am ashamed to count you amongst us!” (On behalf of scientists everywhere, I am ashamed to count you amongst us!).
David looked at these "human elites" for ten years, so how could he not feel contempt for human beings? After "Prometheus" failed to find God (engineer) with humans, he began to believe that he was higher than humans; in "Alien: Covenant", David's brewing conclusion finally broke out, and he wanted to become God. Although he first became a demon who killed countless ancestors.
The story of Alien: Covenant is a re-enactment of Alien 1, but not a re-enactment. Just as Star Wars: The Force Awakens does the same thing as Star Wars: A New Hope with new characters, it makes sense for new ideas to fall into place. The world is back, "Alien: Covenant" copied the same plot of "Alien 1": the crew of the colony ship unexpectedly woke up from freezing, received a mysterious signal, landed on a mysterious planet, brought back mysterious species, and caused everyone on the ship Dead, but transferred the power of interpretation from the party (human) Ripley to the bystander (biological person) David, declaring his true master and the new theme of this story series: creation.
The David of the Covenant is a demon, yet he claims to be God. To prove that he is a god, he has to perform miracles, so David learned from human beings, creating music, creating art, creating architecture, and finally the ultimate creation—creating creatures.
In May 2017, during the release of the film, Microsoft China headquarters held a press conference, revealing that the artificial intelligence they developed for three years, "Microsoft Xiaobing", has the creativity of writing poetry like a human being. ( Full report ) Some of Xiaobing's poems are almost unreal, and they have not been detected in magazines, but some poems are confusing to human readers. One of them is like this:
He hides the half-bent wax paper
sun with a warm black star.
My heart is like my good dreams
. There are many people who can't be killed.
After reading it, the first thing that comes to my mind is, It's David. David is a poet who uses meat as a brick. Using words that humans think are deformed, he wrote the most beautiful poems, and finally created Neomorph and black aliens. David did not ask these creatures to pour tea to serve him, but took the initiative to pity them; perhaps because he believed that he was not only a god, but a good god far more worthy of respect than the human beings who created him.
However, has the wise David never thought that since he was created by humans so contempt for humans, the aliens created by biochemical humans would not despise him?
Before the end of "Covenant", David pretended to be a biochemical human Watt and boarded the Covenant, and through the monitor, he met the black alien's eyes, and the obedient alien bared his teeth for the first time. Is this a misunderstanding by the alien who mistaken him for a human, or is it a clear expression of rebellion? Maybe not, maybe both. Perhaps the fate of aliens born in the world is not to become a more dominant species of biochemical humans, but a tangible original sin destined to kill every ancestor (engineer, human, biochemical person)? Will the species he cared for himself one day devour him in reverse, just as he devoured the humans and engineers who created him? Unknown, or, all of the above. Neither we nor David have an answer, at least until "Prequel to Prequel" hits theaters. The ancestor-killing knot of this series has once again become a mystery to be solved.
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