Quote from: Fiendishly Inventive on Sep 10, 2019, 10:50:24 PM
The idea's got merit, especially within the Gothic Romantic Horror genre- just not enough to override the ancient unknowable entity idea.
The Neomorph arriving at the temple seems like something from an Edgar Alan Poe tale. It's a whole vampiric atmosphere, with the ghostly Neo scouting the dark place for some entry and the two spooky looking bas-relief in the gates of the Cathedral (
William Blake imagery).
That monster is very well handled. They didn't build an atmosphere with this quality for the Alien, unfortunately. But the idea as a whole has merits without doubt. It all starts in paradise, David's Valhalla. Almost like a metaverse where the echoes of Friedrich Nietzsche & Richard Wagner can be heard it. The battle between science vs religion, critical thinking vs magical thinking,
Nietzsche vs Wagner; they are false
gods.You are a human, you will die, I will not. God is dead.
The Übermensch is free to complete his agenda. He prefers to reign in hell than to be a servant in heaven. But sometimes we leave Paradise Lost, and the conflict evolves into Science vs. Nature, once we are arriving into the Mary Shelley territory. A.I and its dangerous implications. The metaverse rises again, with a David drawing nightmarish pieces of art born from his dreams, some of these featuring his unlucky muse, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw. An odd parallel with Giger and Li Tobler. So, what can be experienced as a nightmare from a human perspective, it is an idyllic dream for an AI perspective. Monster to some, Perfect Organism to others (Ash & David).
David is a fragment of Prometheus DNA. The titan in the form of a majestic spaceship sent to the domains of those who came before, with the mission of taking a piece of knowledge from that sacred place; a piece of the fire of the gods. Knowledge is power, especially if it is beneficial for mankind.
Now, David has become the antithesis of the Prometheus concept as he plan to use that fire to destroy his creators. The Alien is a reflection of our deepest fears, even ancient fears. We don't deserve to start over and he's not going to let us, and sexual reproduction is going to become the core part of our destruction. But such sacrifice culminates in a new creation. He spent enough time on the island of the death to learn from their ways; cos sometimes in order to create, one must first destroy.
Or maybe we haven't reached the true island of the dead yet. I mean, who is the oarsman Charon here? you know, the boatman who ferries souls to the underworld through the waters of the river Acheron, in Greek mythology.
But more importantly. If the Alien is a mirror of our deepest fears...such reflection has been created...or resurrected? The movie says the first, but there is still a chance for the second one