If possible, be sure to see the IMAX version. The visual effects are very good, whether it is an open and magnificent scene, a claustrophobic space or a little bit of detail is very expressive. The 3D effect is exquisite, which is far better than the fake 3D with paper people dangling in front of them. What impressed me the most was the sound effect of the soles of the feet vibrating when the spaceship fell. Without the large screen and sound effects of IMAX, the sense of presence created by the sophisticated lens would be a waste.
A good movie can satisfy audiences of all levels. The ignorant fools enjoy a visual feast, the devout believers get the offense they deserve, and the thoughtful may continue to think more or less about the questions that the film unfolds.
As a child I always believed with certainty that there was no god or anything supernatural, because I thought science could and should explain everything. And now, when asked if I believe in God or not, I can only answer that I don't know. Looking up at the starry sky, isn't the endless darkness among the stars a huge black screen? Maybe the being who created it all is hiding behind the curtain, admiring his work. If science is just a set of rules that existence has created for this universe, how can it be bound by the rules it has created?
I think this is probably a process that everyone will go through, at least those who have had philosophical enlightenment and have thought about life; Certain things will also become blurred, so there is one less believer and one more skeptic or agnostic in the world.
I believe there is no god in any human religion. The gods of religion are nothing but the arrogant and inferior fantasy of human beings, and the existences that are higher than human beings fabricated and imagined by human beings according to their own consciousness. The inferiority of human beings lies in their belief in a being who can control their destiny as they please, and the arrogance of human beings lies in the fact that they have endowed God with a human-like character in their own form. If there is a god, it must be beyond the human concept of good and evil. When people try to use original sin and retribution to explain the misfortunes that happen to themselves and others, do they ever remember when they were a urchin, did they care about the good and evil of the ant before burning the ant with a magnifying glass? ?
However, the myths of ancient civilizations originating from all over the world have striking similarities to the creation of the world and the birth of human beings. Many other legends are often circulated in many ancient civilizations in different narrative methods, and their similarity is absolutely Simple as no coincidence. The stone carvings and murals of many ancient civilizations have also appeared in images similar to modern astronauts. Some researchers have proposed that the gods in the eyes of the ancestors were the alien intelligent life that visited the earth. Another interesting phenomenon is that the gods in the legends of various civilizations seem to be unable to control their belts, and there is no reproductive isolation. This confirms the view put forward in Prometheus that human DNA comes from extraterrestrial intelligent life, and human beings are the creation of extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Prometheus contains several layers of metaphors. In Greek mythology, Prometheus created human beings, taught human knowledge and skills, and was tortured by stealing fire for human beings. The first metaphor of Prometheus is the engineer who drank the black liquid and died at the beginning. From the action of taking off his clothes, staring at the black liquid and the distant spaceship, I can see the nostalgia for life and the determination to die. Obviously, he knew that this experiment would bring his own death, but he still chose to use his own death to create life, which is the unbreakable principle of the universe. When he drank the black liquid and his body began to split, the pain he experienced must have been heart-wrenching, like an eagle eating his liver. The people carried by the Prometheus spacecraft are embarking on a journey to find their roots. Whether the constellation pattern is the coordinates left by the engineer to guide mankind, or the trap that lures mankind to come, this journey is a journey to find the roots. Life comes from the death of the engineer who drank black matter, and the journey of seeking roots should end in death. Humans named their ship Prometheus, because this ship carries two missions, to find the fire of life in Weyland and the light of wisdom of all mankind.
Human beings have never stopped searching for their own origin. The ancestors regarded themselves as the creation of God, because we are so special on this planet. Our wisdom allows us to create in addition to animal imitation. Perhaps because creation is our unique endowment, humans are obsessed with their creators and with creation itself. God created us with wisdom, so when we create intelligent creatures like David, how should we position ourselves? One day, the wisdom we have accumulated over thousands of years will finally reach the level of engineers. Can we claim that technology is our divine power? Maybe self-deception won't work, we have to go back to the old way of engineers, create some stupid but intelligent potential life, let them respect us as gods. However, creation obviously does not have such a ridiculous purpose, and creation is just an instinctive impulse of intelligent life. Just as when David asked why people created him, Charlie's answer was simply "Because we can".
Thinking back to the engineers who created us, they helped mankind through the Stone Age successively after creation, and finally decided to destroy mankind. After going through everything, Elizabeth is still going to find the home planet of the engineers and ask them why they were created and then destroyed. If the answer she gets is also "Because we can", how can humans accept such cruelty?
At the same time, it was the cruelty that David had to endure all the time. When everyone was dormant, only David lived alone for several years. He learned strange languages and fancy bartending skills, watched old movies, and had an admiration for human civilization. Riding a bike and playing basketball, looking in the mirror and imitating details like movies, are cute and pitiful at the same time. Apparently, while giving him intelligence, he also gave him the emotions of intelligent life, including loneliness. It's just that he's just a robot, who cares about his emotions? So his childish curiosity, his need for respect and his desire for freedom were also ignored by humans. After everyone wakes up, David needs to face a group of humans who are obviously far less intelligent than him, but still treat him with contempt. These people are far less beautiful than the humans in the movie. As a result, David's child's temperament exploded, and he started a small experiment to satisfy his own curiosity regardless of human safety; thus, David distorted the meaning of human affection and fantasized about the freedom after killing his father.
The relationship between creator and creation must be so. Apart from the appreciation of their own works, creators always have unavoidable contempt for creation. The reason is very simple. We create "because we can", just as human beings are to David, Engineers are to alien prototypes, and maybe Engineers are to humans. . And creation is admiration and worship for the creator, out of the instinct of the weak to the strong, just as the human being is to the Engineer, and David is to the perfect human in the movie. When the strong and the weak are translocated, the powerful creatures will eventually backlash, intentionally or not, and in the end, the reason is the arrogant attitude of the weak creators, just as David, who has an advantage in intelligence, is in human beings, and has achieved physical and evolutionary success. The advantaged alien archetype is for the Engineer.
In the control cabin of the spacecraft, Wayland and Elizabeth both asked David to convey their questions, but what David asked in the end is unknown. Engineer began to look at David with joy, but suddenly burst out and attacked everyone. I have a conjecture, maybe at first the Engineer was just appreciating the human being as his masterpiece, but from David's words, we know that David is just a robot created by human beings. When he discovered that human beings have been able to create intelligent life and began to approach their own power, he Threatened and angry, it erupted, destroying David first.
Perhaps creativity is the curse of all intelligent life. Creators have always acquired the ability to create before they can respect their own creations. Creativity and curiosity are a deadly poison. When they have the ability to create, who can resist curiosity to find out? The Engineer finally created the ultimate product of evolution, the Alien Prototype, while also unleashing irresistible destruction. Isn't this the case with today's human beings, nuclear weapons, engineering synthetic viruses, these human creations are no different from the alien prototypes still in the stone bottle. Once released, the jade and stone will burn. With Pandora's Box in hand, how many people can hold back their curiosity and not open it?
Everything comes into existence, develops, and ends for a reason. Humanity has discovered its creator, the Engineer. Is the Engineer lucky or unfortunate to discover the reason for his existence? So what is the reason for the existence of their creators? When cause and effect are pushed up infinitely, the only thing that exists without cause is God. If the Big Bang theory is true, and our universe is the only one, maybe God is the singularity of the explosion. When time runs out, whether or not humans have destroyed themselves by then, the universe will eventually collapse back to its original singularity, and any signs of human existence in the universe will eventually be destroyed.
Born in destruction, and finally destroyed, God's creation, in the end, returns to Him.
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