This movie is an extreme movie of "I like it or I hate it". The main creator has left too many foreshadowings, hints, and metaphors in this movie. This makes the interpretation of the film extremely complicated, and it is an impossible task for many viewers, and it is believed that the director is making mystery.
I think the key to understanding this movie is to understand the civilized characteristics of the engineer race. The following is an introduction, I hope the expert will give advice.
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Looking at the products made by color engineers, the colors of spacecraft, consoles, clothing, sculptures, and even holographic images are very monotonous, mainly gray and green, only a few buttons are white, and engineers who go to the earth wear khaki The cloak has no complicated colors. Judging from these details, the engineer’s civilization is not sensitive to bright and true colors, or it is not a factor valued in the process of understanding and transforming the world. Therefore, in the online version of Itunes, engineers are very surprised and yearning for human color imaging technology. On the one hand, it shows that engineers can recognize colors. On the other hand, it also shows that this technology is beyond the reach of engineer civilization.
However, engineers have developed holographic image storage and display technology (although gray-green), which is functionally the same as human image technology. This shows that the civilization trajectory of engineers is different from that of human beings, which will inevitably lead to a civilizational asymmetry between the two, that is, there will be differences between the two. But since the awakened engineer has been sleeping for about 2000 years, it is hard to imagine how much its civilization will reach after 2000.
Two faith
stone room of the picture, wall paintings, reliefs, and sculptures illustrate the cockpit of engineers on aesthetics and humans have many similarities, after all, linked to the gene.
Judging from the layout of the stone chamber, it should be related to a certain religious ceremony. At least it shows that the engineer has a religious belief, indicating that a certain god is awed by the engineer's civilization.
And behind the engineer's head is a special-shaped relief, with a special-shaped queen and a special-shaped one. The aliens we saw in the "Alien" series of films were all crawling, while the reliefs were upright and more humanoid, which is not excluded because of artistic creation. The appearance of such a relief at least shows that aliens are not unfamiliar to engineers, and higher aliens may have appeared.
If you look closely at this relief, you will see a picture of a person holding his face in the lower left corner of the relief, which means that engineers understand the process of alien reproduction. Considering the close blood relationship between humans and engineers, if aliens can reproduce through humans, then they can completely reproduce through engineers. Therefore, aliens are also a threat to engineers.
The appearance of the alien in this ritual stone room can show that this is a totem worship of engineers, and further prove the existence of religion in the engineer civilization. Totem worship may be a god of faith, an ancestor in a myth, or an image related to reproduction, or an object of fear. In short, this is an important part of the engineer’s beliefs.
But human beings created by engineers do not believe in these, but established a religion based on their own civilization 2000 years ago and embarked on another path of civilization development. If this is not what engineers hoped to see when they created humans, it would be logical to set off at that time to eliminate heresy.
Why does alien form become part of the faith of engineers? I will talk about my views later.
Three escapes
David activated a holographic image in the tunnel, restoring the scene of a group of engineers fleeing at that time. From the perspective of this process, the engineers running behind looked back many times, and it seemed that something was chasing them. Reminiscent of the small bugs on this planet being so powerful after they came into contact with the black liquid, it can be guessed that there might be extremely dangerous creatures that were accidentally blended out by the engineers at that time.
The engineers all ran into Shimen at the time, which meant that the room was safe for them. At the end of the run, the head was cut off by Shimen (I will talk about why the rush to close). But the corpse outside the door is intact. If there is something chasing them behind, why didn't they destroy the corpse? If there is indeed some kind of alien chasing them, then obviously the dead body is of no value to the alien.
After Shimen opened, there was no engineer inside, only one head. So, where did the other engineers go? I think it might be the pile of corpses seen by the two missing scientists. Slow motion can clearly see that the helmets of at least two corpses were damaged. The head of the engineer who Lenovo was picked up by Shaw also exploded. I think this pile of corpses should be a collective suicide by the engineer to prevent the aliens from borrowing them to reproduce, but they were chased by the aliens before the attack. The entrance escaped to another place. This can also explain why so many corpses are piled together.
But this is not enough. Recall "Alien 1", alien eggs can be stored for a long time. The environment in the stone room happens to be a very good preservation environment, and the engineer's head is quite well preserved. Therefore, it is very important to lock the door of this room to prevent the alien from dropping the egg here. In this way, after 2000, the alien that threatened engineers has become extinct.
Four murals
As mentioned above, there is a mural on the roof of the stone room. When human beings just opened the stone door, they saw an engineer holding on to something similar to an alien.
Recall that containers of black liquid are arranged on the ground in an orderly manner. It is very difficult to control the black liquid, which is a very active liquid, in ordinary containers. After the stone door was opened, the containers in the stone chamber began to leak (David also specially found one that did not leak). It can be seen that this stone room has the function of preserving the black liquid. Then, the meaning of the mural at this time is "controlled state".
Later, when David went to the cockpit, he saw hundreds of containers neatly placed in the warehouse next to the cockpit. Note that there was a layer of fog on the floor of the warehouse. The place where the eggs were found in Alien 1 is very different. picture. Therefore, it should also be a stable place that can be operated. (But even so, I couldn’t figure out putting such a dangerous thing next to the cockpit.)
Putting containers in the stone room should be a ritual requirement, but it is indeed very risky. This stone gate cannot be like a city gate, so it must be closed immediately after opening it (continue to the reason for the broken head above). And the arrival of human beings broke this rule. After opening the door and not closing it, the active black liquid seemed to have vitality, breaking through the container little by little, leaking everywhere. At this time, the mural slowly turned into an alien hand, dragging an alien egg to block his face. Therefore, murals play a warning role. Once the murals begin to change, immediately close the stone gate and let the black liquid fall asleep, so that no aliens will appear. It is estimated that after closing, the engineer can clean the inside to kill the alien in the body fluid state.
Although it is dangerous, engineers still have to place these containers in the stone chamber, which should be required for religious ceremonies.
Five body
when the head of the laboratory where engineers ringing off the hook, David said something slightly disappointed but also flesh and blood.
Yes, engineers, like humans, have a complete structure of their bodies, organs, and tissues. The same is true for hearing, sight, and touch. It can be said to be an enlarged version of human beings.
Judging from the state of the engineer who was awakened, the physical fitness of the engineer is higher than that of the human being. But because he also needs a thermal storage room to complete interstellar travel, this means that even if an engineer lives longer than a human, it is a life with a mortal nature. Judging from the exposed pictures, engineers will also get old. If he can't live forever, he can't make human beings live forever.
The body of the self-sacrificing engineer in the opening film is almost the same as that of a human (it can be imagined that the difference between the final fig leaf and a human being taken off should not be very big), but the engineer who is awakened is very different. His body is wrapped in a similar layer. The protective layer of bones. In the final state where the alien form broke out of his body, this layer of wrapper is one body with his body.
This may be because the two engineers are separated by tens of thousands of years, their civilization is progressing, and they have transformed themselves, and this transformation requires the use of black liquid. But in the process, the situation got out of control.
It may also be that before the engineers transformed themselves, some engineers opposed this transformation and fled to the earth. The reason for their opposition was the foreboding of the catastrophic consequences of losing control.
In addition, all the engineers currently exposed are bald males, so it is very likely that they are a race without the ability to reproduce, all of which rely on cloning technology for reproduction. Of course, it is also possible that all women perish, and no mother can give birth to a new generation of engineers. This prompts the engineers in the film to sacrifice themselves to create a reproductive race-humans, or to leave themselves a fire of civilization, or it may still be It is hoped that humans can recreate female engineers who can naturally nurture the next generation.
Looking at the status of aliens in the faith of engineers from this perspective will be rewarding. Alien is a very pure life, there is no other pursuit besides survival and reproduction, it can be said to survive for reproduction. And this is precisely what engineers without the ability to reproduce are longing for. Therefore, the beginning of engineer civilization may be the desire to achieve reproduction. This prompted engineers to have a distorted totem worship of aliens.
6 Destroying Humans As
mentioned above, aliens are a form of life known to engineers. Judging from the process in the movie, women are essential in the process of cultivating aliens.
If engineers spill so much black liquid on the earth, it is conceivable that all people on earth will either turn into the kind of violent and tyrannical monsters like geologists, or they will be killed by octopuses. In short, human civilization will certainly perish.
If it doesn't spread to the earth, there is really no need to bring so much. Therefore, engineers must not want to allow human civilization to continue to develop.
This has something in common with the myth of Prometheus.
In mythology, Prometheus is one of the gods. Although he created humans, he does not have the supreme status in the gods. Zeus, who is a brother of him, has higher power and status than him. Prometheus helped Zeus conquer the world and made suggestions when the new leadership team was decentralized, which is a great brother to Zeus.
Prometheus came to the world, fell in love with this beautiful land, and felt that it lacked vitality, so he created mankind, educates mankind, helps mankind, and even brings the fire that symbolizes civilization to mankind. This makes Zeus very angry, because Zeus needs the worship and admiration of mankind, and he does not want mankind to move towards a more civilized stage, which means that his status will be threatened by some kind of Chengdu. So Zeus nailed Prometheus to the mountain and asked the eagle to eat his liver. What’s more cruel is that the eagle ate Prometheus’ liver today, and a new one will grow tomorrow, so that Prometheus will suffer every day. Tortured. In addition, Zeus sent Pandora, who spread the plague, to the world to punish mankind.
Therefore, from the perspective of mythology, "Pandora's Box" should be a container of black liquid.
Seven summary
Engineers are the ancestors of mankind, and their civilization process is tens of thousands of years earlier than mankind. They have extraordinary physical stamina and wisdom, and use black liquid to transform themselves. But without the ability to reproduce, he has been relying on cloning himself to promote the development of this civilization.
Later, in power struggles or line struggles for the pursuit of reproductive capacity, there were differences among engineers. One group came to the earth and gave birth to human civilization. Although it started late, it moved in a different direction from the engineer civilization, and in some respects showed a tendency to surpass the engineer.
After learning about the human condition, another engineer started the "Pandora" project 2000 years ago to spread a terrible plague (black liquid) into the human world and destroy human civilization. However, because the plague was too active, creatures came into contact with the black liquid and turned into aliens before the spacecraft set sail. The engineers chose to commit suicide collectively during the confrontation with the aliens, cutting off the possibility of the aliens continuing to multiply.
An engineer escaped this disaster and entered the holding room to wait for other engineers to come to rescue, but failed to wait for the rescue, but was awakened by the visiting humans.
The desire of human beings to live forever and the ability to master artificial intelligence made engineers furious. He began to slaughter humans and piloted a spacecraft to destroy human civilization. As a result, he was hit by a human spacecraft and failed to make a trip. The engineer injured after the spaceship crashed escaped and entered the human lifeboat. I was amazed by the human civilization and wanted to kill Shaw after discovering that Shaw was still alive. However, he was caught by the big octopus born by Shaw and gave birth to a life similar to an alien.
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