Today I would like to share with you a science fiction film "Prometheus" from 2012.
Referral Index: ★★★★★
Suspense Index: ★★★★
Visual Index: ★★★★★
Plot Index: ★★★
This movie as a prequel to the Alien series, the original intention of the old director Ridley Scott shooting is actually to give the alien series fans an explanation, to fill in some of the holes in the original movie, to make up for the supplement.
Who would have thought that the speed of filling the pit by the old artist is far from the speed of digging the pit, not only the original puzzle has not been completely solved, but with the development of the new alien prequel trilogy, the number of pits has not decreased but increased, making fans cry and laugh.
Although it is an alien prequel, in fact, there is not much ink and ink of the alien in the movie, but the old artist has laid out a particularly large world view, so when you watch it for the first time, you will feel very tired, it is easy to miss the details, and you feel that the movie is unknown. But if you can successfully string together the clues buried by the director in the movie, you will feel, wow, it is simply amazing. So what we see on the internet review is also a mixed reputation, serious polarization, think that the good feel is the world's god film, think bad feel that even the bad film is not as good.
I will combine my understanding of the film and the views of many netizens to try to explain as reasonable as possible several core topics and mysteries in the film. The process may need to be supported by the Alien series of films other than Prometheus, so if possible, it is best to have the basis for watching the Alien hex. But if you only watch "Prometheus", it is ok.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > the first and most core problem</h1>
What is Alien? How did they come about?
To discuss this, we have to discuss it with another core question, otherwise it is really unclear - that is, what is the black water that the great white drinks?
Let's start with the alien, when did the alien appear? Some people think that the alien that bursts out of the chest of the great white body at the end of the film is the first alien ever.
However, in the U-shaped spaceship, the room with the large head, officially called the incubation room, the image of the alien is already present on the mural, and it is placed in the C position in the middle.
There are two possibilities why aliens occupy such an important place on the murals.
A point: The Alien is the race of engineers, officially known as the Jockey Clan, and the gods worshipped are the spiritual sustenance of the Jockey Clan. This is the same intention that various ancient civilizations liked to engrave myths and stories on the walls of palace temples.
View B: Aliens are the perfect creatures created by the Jockeys, and they record the historical moments that accomplished this important feat in the murals. It is convenient for future generations to sing the praises of their own great deeds.
I think the B view is more likely, and there are indications in the film that the birth of the alien is related to "black water", and black water, in the jockey civilization, is a controlled thing, and black water is usually encapsulated in a container when it appears, whether it is black water that is drunk by suicide at the beginning of the film, or black water in the incubation room, it can be seen that the appearance of the alien is not completely controlled by itself.
With this theoretical foundation in mind, let's discuss how aliens were born:
In the generations of alien movies before Prometheus, the main way for the original alien to be born is this, first laid by the queen, that is, the egg-shaped objects in the movie that will open their mouths and jump out of the face-hugging worm;
Then the face-hugging worm finds a host, injects the host into the pregnancy, generally enters the digestive tract through the mouth, and then slowly acts;
Finally, the embryonic alien breaks free from the host's body, which is the familiar chest explosion, and then becomes an independent individual.
In the movie Prometheus, the way aliens are born changes. Dr. Harroway drank the black water,
Then with Dr. Sean OOXX, Dr. Sean accidentally became pregnant, giving birth to a monster with tentacles that was different from all the aliens he had seen before, officially known as the Trefoot Monster.
Then the clover monster played with the great white deep throat, injected pregnancy in the big white body, and finally the chest exploded another different breed of alien - officially called the deacon.
To the "Alien Contract", stepping on the unknown creature, the particles scattered by the sporophytes directly enter the human body,
After a few hours, he can burst out of the white faceless alien on his chest.
We found that in different versions, the way to make aliens is not the same, which seems to have no logic at all, and can't help but sigh - your circle is really messy. But if we peel back the cocoon, grasp the details, and find the logical relationship between them, we can completely crack the suspense of the origin of the alien.
The point here is that black water, or the organic matter in black water, I call it, sunspots.
Because its own form is actually possible to change. Like the seemingly free-will sporophytes floating in Alien Contract, it is another form of sunspot.
The solution in black water should be a scientific and technological product of the jockey family used to inhibit the activity of sunspots.
Sunspots, different genes for contact, different ways of contact, will give birth to different forms of "alien". The unusual insects and small alien specimens collected by David in "Alien Contract" can see the bionic and diversity of the alien, and penetrating different DNA can mutate different lifeforms. The so-called alien is only a general term for the mutated organisms of the sunspot gene.
Then the bug comes. In Prometheus, why did Professor Harroway ingest black water but not explode the alien in his chest, and did this make the above inference of the origin of the alien self-defeating? I think it's easy to explain. We see the symptoms of Professor Harroway's body, in fact, the same as in the "Alien Contract", the two crew members who were unwell after being attacked by the sporophytes are the same, the body is weak, and the sense of balance is greatly reduced, but what is different is that the sunspot substance ingested by Haroway is soaked in the inhibitor developed by The Great White, and the dose is very small.
The crew can be understood as being actively invaded by a whole cluster of sunspots. Of course, the effect and speed of action of sunspots will be different. And just when Harroway sensed that the alien was about to come out, he took the initiative to lead the death and was burned to death by Charlize Theron, so the alien in the body was also stillborn.
So, in the first three alien movies, what is the alien born through the face-hugging insect injection, it is very simple, each alien has a sunspot gene, I prefer to think that they are the different forms of the survival of the sunspot species, as long as they can find a way to spread the sunspot gene, they can continue to multiply.
The face-hugging insect is just a tool for transmitting the sunspot gene, and the purpose of the face-hugging is to inject the sunspot gene into the human body, so that they can find the host and continue to survive with genetic mutations.
Another important setting that deserves our attention is that sunspots are exposed to different ways, and even if the DNA is contacted, the results of genetic mutations will be different. For example, in the end, he becomes a cold monster and kills Farfield in all directions at the door of the spaceship.
His contact method is superficial contact, so it reacts directly on him, and becomes an alien in itself, losing his will at the same time, in the same way, the small bugs that are soaked in solution in the incubation chamber are also transformed into very aggressive basilisks.
Another example, Dr. Sean, the sunspot gene in her body is transmitted through body fluids, and the way of gene mutation is much milder, in addition to the embryo growing too fast, the body does not have too many uncomfortable symptoms, the will can also be freely controlled, and the alien born is not the appearance of the traditional alien. But it is unclear whether the sunspot gene completely disappeared from Dr. Sean.
We see in "Alien Contract" that there is an uncomfortable picture of Dr. Sean being unscrewed, whether this is related to the sunspot gene, but also wait for the interpretation of the follow-up movie.
Of course, there is also the iron-blooded goddess Ripley, in the fourth part of "Alien", her genes are copied, and before she died, she was invaded by face-hugging insects, and as a result, the empress with genetic mutations can even change from oviparous to fetal.
The most intense form is excessive contact, which appears in the scene in "Alien Contract" where David is caught in memory while chanting poems and comparing himself to king,
Thousands of sunspots explode in form of excessive contact with the great white, the mutated genes interfere with each other, can not form a fixed form of existence, there are a few frames of the picture, we can see that there are new species in the body of the great white that want to emerge, but immediately they are contacted by the sunspots, they cannot be fixed at all, and finally the sunspots are dead.
This species, they have the same mission as humans - to reproduce, but the way they reproduce will make humans who are accustomed to natural production feel uncomfortable. In fact, it is not uncommon to be strange. Even in the biological systems we know, there are already many unconventional ways of reproduction, such as the seahorse being born by males;
The female praying mantis eats her mate in order to procreate,
Yellow eels are all females when they are young, and become males after giving birth.
These forms, if you put them into human society, you will think that they are aliens, and everything in the world is strange, so why make a fuss.
Okay, so is the liquid like the turtle cream that Dabai drank in the opening chapter a sunspot substance? I know it, but not as pristine sunspots.
It must be the sunspot that Dabai has modified with their science and technology, the same use is genetic mutation, but it should be much milder and more controllable, eliminating the elements of the alien mania and attacking, and retaining more of the great white side.
Combined with the conjecture of the jockey civilization, I think that the reason why Dabai drank this bowl of turtle cream so ritualically should be to do genetic continuation experiments, trying to use the high adaptability of sunspots to help him become a new species. We have reason to believe that such experiments should be carried out not only on Earth, but also on other terrestrial planets.
Such perverse reproduction would, of course, be opposed by the racists of its kind and retaliate. The way to retaliate is to destroy genes through sunspot bombs.
To sum up, the alien is actually a form of the continuation of the life of sunspots. Whether the sunspot was invented by the jockey clan or discovered and used by the jockey clan is not clearly explained in the film, but for the jockey clan, kuroko is a tool for genetic mutation, which can optimize genes, modify genes, and destroy genes.
The first question is relatively large, let's change a more relaxed question
Why did The Great White create human beings?