re: After giving Promet[h]eus a shot on cable

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And the abortion scene is rife with subtext.

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yeah, not really seeing that either, since my attention was being pulled from alien zombie to wondering why no one was looking for her while she aborted a freaking alien and then being pissed that people were more surprised by guy pierce than the abortion.

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I completely disagree, but to each his own. I think the film is very concerned with the concepts of faith, the conflict with science, the origins of life, what makes us alive, what makes us human, and the value of skepticism.

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Agree with all that. Aside from the things you listed above, I think a huge concept of the film is human curiosity. We always want to know more. We're always trying to figure out the Cosmos, so to speak. We want to know where we came from. And within the movie, we get all these "star clues" and think it can lead to some answers, so we want to go check it out. We get to the planet and see dead things and black ooze, and we want to study it and figure out what it is and what it does. We want to find out who the engineers are and if/why they created us and if/why they want to destroy us. Etc. And there's also the sort of deeper theory of "Maybe humans were simply an experiment of the engineers and we didn't work out and so now they want to destroy us just like any other failed experiment." There are all kinds of things you can read into the movie if you choose.

And to an earlier point you said:

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I think films get way too bogged down explaining their mythology and at the end of the day,

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First thing I thought of when I was reading your post was the thread about Room 1408 years ago and how much you liked that the only "explanation" of the goings on was Sam Jackson's line of "It's just an evil fricking room." That's similar to the goo here for me...it's just really bad stuff. It can cause good things (like creating life, although depending on what it creates that may not necessarily be a good thing), wreak havoc, cause mass destruction, etc. It's not something that is understood by anyone on screen, including the engineers. So for me, I don't need much more explanation than that either. And to be honest, had they gone overboard with explaining the goo and what it's all about and why it was created and what exactly it does, etc...it wouldn't be as scary or dangerous as it was without knowing all of that. If they had given ANY sort of explanation, it very well would've made the substance less important/serious.



ETA: to continue my point of human curiosity...even in the end, when Shaw survives and realizes that David is still alive and that there are more ships on the planet, David is talking about getting home, and she says she doesn't want to go home...she wants to go to where the ships originated. Curiosity and the drive for answers about life..