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Yes but those unanswered questions raise your Imaginations in those movies.
It's not the case in Prometheus because it is:
-Either a production development problem
-Either a stupid concept that doesn't need an answer because you simply doesn't care at all.
-Either a concept that only serves the story and nothing less.
You're not asking questions, the characters in the films are doing it for you on a so pathetic and obvious level unlike 2001, Matrix, Inception, etc.
Im glad someone else has stated this besides me. In other threads/forums i posited the same dilemma.
In the matrix, inception, memento, and other truly multilayered, symbol driven movies, the writers know what they are trying to say, and they are embedding deep ideas AND answers within the plot. The matrix----they tell you what it is, they show you what it is, the discussion comes from questions like "what is real?" and "what side are you on?"
Lindelof doesnt do this. HE creates the questions nonstop without providing any cohesion or pivot point to pick a side on. It's a mockery of "matrixed" stories and films. There is no "solution", not in an existential way, its deliberately empty. Its a mockery.
That's why people call him Hack or Fraud. Its not because he does things people "dont get" or "dont like". Its because he outright LIES, there is nothing to get, he has no point, no message. He creates psuedo discussion because he has made the water as clear as tar.
