During the summer vacation, the subject was too bored, looking around for a good movie to watch, inadvertently, in the browser's recommended list saw a very Greek mythological science fiction movie, although it is an old movie from 2012, but its name is very attractive to me and a picture inside. (Prometheus was the prophetic god of Greek mythology, and it is said that he created humanity according to the appearance of the gods!) ）
Mythical Prometheus
When you see these strange aliens, your curiosity about their origins with humans is ignited at once.
The film begins with a white giant who, after receiving many requests from the older white giants (this one was cut out in a certain miracle, this is another version, which is easier to understand the whole plot), gloriously participates in this sacrificial ritual, that is, taking black water (this is essentially the same as the black water that appears after the plot, but the black water after that has a stronger effect, that is, it can bring about the powerful ability to make organisms mutate and evolve, and at this time only has the ability to decompose genes), they are the creators of the earth civilization, Their bodies were broken down into DNA and combined with the Earth's environment into new forms, and since then, life has arisen on Earth.
They are the creators of mankind, and they have left clues in religious myths around the world through stone carvings, marking their so-called homeland.
And David (i.e., the intelligent robot) as a human creation is loaded on a spaceship called Prometheus to the planet marked by the Creator, and this plan is Peter Weilun (he is the big boss of Weilun Industry, who controls the construction project of the Mars base, and is very close to the people!). The purpose of implementation is ostensibly to communicate with the Creator of mankind, but the ultimate goal is to achieve one's own eternal life!
David
Peter Weilun
In fact, as an artificial intelligence, David not only has the ability to calculate and learn that is difficult for humans to reach, but also has superhuman physical ability, but most importantly, he has achieved the immortal life that all human beings dream of.
At this time, it involves the question of whether the artificial intelligence has a soul, and humans created David as a thing without soul and life, and when they encounter danger, humans take David as the first sacrifice. Although Wei Lun referred to David as his son, he was more like David's king, treating him as his slave. (After all, the son here treats the dog like a god))
David in the learning, but also gradually formed their own independent consciousness, for human beings, artificial intelligence has their own ideas, which is more terrifying than seeing the devil (because this horror is invisible, specific can refer to the movie "Terminator"), David's favorite movie is "Lawrence of Arabia" - the meaning is that David will be like Lawrence, become a new creator, shape a new gods, and lead mankind to rebirth!
The appearance of the alien base in the camera reminds me of the picture of Yuri's big head in the Red Alert, and although the creators here are the same as humans, perhaps the style of the Cthulhu myth and the Style of The Cronenberger are more in line with my imagination of aliens! (Cronenberg is a little uncomfortable, so he won't let poison it)
When Blackwater is combined with aliens, it produces the image of the alien we know as it, after all, this movie is considered a prequel to the alien series of movies.
When I watched this movie, I still paid more attention to the idea that human beings are created by aliens decomposing their genes, which is different from the view that we know evolution, after all, with the continuous acceleration of the rate of species extinction, although there are still new species in the rainforest that we do not know (there is a view that we are in a period of rapid species replacement), evolution is also questioned to a certain extent, after all, such a rapid rate of species replacement does not meet the requirements of evolution. Of course, it may also be a problem with our observations, they have completed the process of evolution very early, but they are limited by the harsh natural environment (for humans) and are difficult to detect.
The film ends with Dr. Sean's "octopus" killing the engineers who are dormant at the base, and Dr. Sean is lured by David to fix David, and in the second "Alien Contract", Sean receives a box lunch under the torture of David's cruel human experiments.
David, as the big winner, laughed to the end, and after repairing the Creator's ship, drove to the Creator's home planet and dropped black water, destroying the Creator's home planet. As a god-like being, it controls the life and death of a planetary creature.
The destruction of a consciousness is the death of a living being, and even if the flesh breaks through, everything is gone.
It may be more possible to achieve the goal of eternal life by transforming human consciousness and perception into machines, but this faces a series of philosophical and ethical problems, after all, consciousness is likely to be non-existent, perhaps, we are the indigenous inhabitants of the earth, but we will not be the only "firelight" in the dark universe.