Prometheus Prometheus plot analysis strong spoilers, be careful

Ethel 2022-04-19 09:01:09

The movie, I watched it twice in a row, once on the 30th, I felt a lot of doubts, and on the 31st I watched it again. Here's a sneak peek. However, there are still many doubts. There are no linear spoilers in this article, but there are doubts to be scrutinized. People who haven't seen it should find it very confusing and incomprehensible. It is recommended to read other articles on spoilers first, and then come back to this article.
In the beginning, the engineer drank the black matter and decomposed itself, and then, while in the water, the DNA underwent a rapid recombination process, resulting in the human being. After that, the scientific expedition team came to this planet under the guidance of the prehistoric ruins and found the remains of the engineer. Strangely, this planet is not a dead star, there are living creatures like earthworms on this planet, and they are the only creatures we can see. Mutates after soaking in black matter, attacking fifield and millburn's snake-like monsters. . I have to rant about these names. . It is very strange that the holographic video did not record the creatures that attacked the engineer, so it can be considered that the engineer did not die because of being attacked by the creature, but for some other reason... and since the engineers at that time were all wearing armor, the situation was very urgent. , after running into that altar, there is no following. We can guess that the altar is actually a teleportation device, especially when the first scientific expedition team came in, Dr praw was staring at a green crystal, but he didn't explain much. Moreover, Fifield's probe ball shows that the altar is a closed space, and the whereabouts of the engineer who entered alive is a mystery, and it can only be considered as teleportation. Another proof is that the engineer who was caught by the door turned around and no one collected his body, so the rest of the living engineers fled in a hurry and never returned, only teleportation.
The engineer should have fled to the altar wearing a driving suit when an accident happened when he was about to set off to destroy the earth.
Some people say that these engineers were killed by their own mutants, which is more suspicious. It can basically be ruled out that it was killed by aliens and not by mutant earthworms, otherwise the scientific research team would have encountered these mutant creatures long ago. Moreover, there are a lot of engineer wreckage piled up together, aliens and earthworms can't have such a high IQ to pile up killed engineers, and, for sure, if it's engineers killed by mutant creatures, there is almost only one purpose , for food, so even a corpse can meet this need, but the engineer's body is almost intact. And when Dr Shaw was studying the engineer's head, there were obviously some black substances and yellow spots on the engineer's head, which was probably moldy. . . . It should be considered that black matter is not an engineer's body composition, so where do these black matter come from? This is a big doubt. It is very likely that the engineer was infected with these black substances before taking off, and hurried to the altar hoping to be teleported to the parent star, and the technology of the parent star may cure this infection. But it's always a guess, and there are no clues after reading it twice. But it is more reliable than those who think they are attacked by aliens.
As for the geographer Fifield, after he was sprayed with the body fluid of the mutant earthworm, he came into contact with the black matter and mutated himself. Why didn't he decompose himself like the engineer at the beginning. Doubtful, or the amount is not large enough, or only the engineer species will be decomposed by black matter? Dr praw died a little early. If he could see that black matter worked on him to the end, maybe he would have a more systematic understanding of the mechanism of action of black matter. What is determined now is that the black matter will decompose DNA and recombine DNA, but it is unclear under what conditions it is recombined and under what conditions it is decomposed. Earthworms and fifields are reorganized, but engineers are disassembled. Dr praw is a key, but he died early... However, his DNA is mutated and not decomposed, so he gave birth to an octopus with the heroine... Why do you like octopuses so much? The rare octopus wants to unify the world?
The heroine is indeed fierce enough. What I want to complain is, didn't the black matter enter her body through Dr praw? Not contagious? Can only work one by one? So the engineers brought so many jars to destroy the earth? To let the people of the earth drink it and be decomposed? Otherwise, it will mutate after being drenched, and it will be more difficult to deal with... However, we are not Gilgamesh who likes to drink such dark things. . . Very suspicious black substance.
In the end, the big octopus fights the engineer... It was very heart-wrenching at first. Later, the big octopus stretched out a "tentacle" and stuck it into the engineer's stomach, and then... the whole octopus slumped on the engineer's body... I am in a moment. It's petrified... It's Nima's genitals that stick out! Also male-to-male mating...same breeding... well, octopuses are supposed to be male, long genitals...plus post-climax limp...engineer is also male by appearance...no evidence...and finally gave birth to one Alien is coming...
The question is, if it is really the alien queen, the alien is asexual reproduction? And the aliens will be the only advanced species on this planet? Assuming he is senior, and he has no prey, how can he survive? Eat those mutant earthworms? The movie is over in a hurry.
Let's spit it out, a dear friend said that the sorrow of advanced species is self-destruction. Strongly agree. Even if engineers don't come to Earth, humanity will self-destruct. Or what the director wants to express is that engineers created human beings, but for various reasons, they regret that they created human beings, so they want to destroy human beings and save the earth. . . It feels like Noah's Ark. . . And more importantly. . . The engineer died about 2,000 years ago...that is, around the 1st century AD, well, there will be errors in the carbon-14 measurement, we can assume that the engineer died at the time of Jesus, which is definitely a time deliberately arranged by the director! The engineer didn't come, but Jesus came to save the world. I am not a religious person, please retreat from religious attacks. Otherwise, wouldn't it be more shocking to let the engineer die longer? Self-created, self-destroyed, human beings are also well inherited, this engineer-God's characteristics. It's just that humans are not strong enough to create species, but who knows? Prometheus, not only the name of the spaceship, but also the creator of human beings, engineers, and fire-black matter, also insinuates human beings themselves!

This is my first time writing a movie review, so it's not really a movie review. . Hope you all like it. . Spoiler alert!

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Prometheus quotes

  • Fifield: Can you get a message to the scientist and that zealot girlfriend of his?

    Janek: Mmmm hmmm.

    Fifield: You got a pen nearby?

    Janek: Nope. Nope, think we got it.

    Fifield: Tell them I said #static interference# themselves.

    Janek: #Laughs#

    Fifield: Copy?

    Janek: Copy that. Alright boys, keep your head down and we'll come and get you in the morning.

  • Janek: Just got a ping about one click west of you.

    Millburn: What do you mean "a ping"?

    Janek: Well, whatever that probe is picking up, it's not dead. It's reading a life form.

    Fifield: What?

    Millburn: Okay, what you mean, "a life form"?

    Fifield: Is it - Is it moving?

    Janek: No, I don't think so.

    Fifield: No, Captain, you're obviously not seeing what we're seeing down here. But if you were, you wouldn't be talking about a bloody ping, yeah?

    Janek: I know, boys. Your signal has been coming in sporadically since the storm hit.

    Fifield: That's no good to us down here, Captain! Is it - Is it moving? Are these things moving?

    Janek: No. No, it just disappeared, actually. Must be a glitch.

    Millburn: What do you mean, "a glitch"?

    Janek: All right, boys. Sleep tight. Try not to bugger each other.

    Millburn: Captain, what do you mean, "a glitch"?

    Fifield: Millburn. What does he mean? Wait. Now, he said - He said one click west, yeah?

    Millburn: Yeah.

    Fifield: Now, we... We don't want to check that out, do we, huh?

    Millburn: Shit, no.

    Fifield: Where are we gonna go?

    Millburn: East.

    Fifield: Yeah, east.

    Millburn: A fucking glitch, man. "Pings, glitch, life form." What the fuck?