Meaning of the movie “Prometheus” and ending explained
In anticipation of the release of Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant," I suggest we refresh our memories of the content of "Prometheus" and look for hidden meanings.
To formulate the basic idea that Ridley Scott expressed in "Prometheus" is quite simple; it would sound like this:
"There are no gods who once created man. There is no Paradise as a place of bliss where the souls of the dead go. Humanity is the result of a biological experiment by another civilization. Our creators are not good at all from a human point of view, they have no similar moral principles, and they will not answer our questions. Those humans worshipped as gods are just as mortal as we are. And Paradise is the planet from which they came."
In his film, R. Scott painted a rather pessimistic and gloomy picture in which there is no place for our usual cultural values - the uniqueness of the individual and the priority of creativity over destruction. In the universe of "Prometheus," everything exists exactly the opposite.
"It is a civilization, but it is based on an entirely uncivilized order."
Every culture and civilization has a certain collective attitude of consciousness that is dominant. Other alternative philosophies are superseded, forming a collective Shadow. The film "Prometheus" is nothing more than an expression of the Shadow of our culture that has absorbed the heritage of antiquity and Christianity.
The central idea of our worldview is the uniqueness and value of the human person.
Consequently, the inverse, shady side of this idea would be the idea of the individual as something of no value, as expendable material. The scene of the Engineer's self-sacrifice suggests just this: in the civilization of the Engineer, the average man is the biomaterial for future living organisms.
In the movie, there is a reference to the image of the crucified Christ that is significant to our culture. It is contrasted with the image of the crucified alien in the Engineers' civilization. Although the meaning of this picture remains unclear, the association is quite definite: if people worship Christ as the embodied good, the Engineers probably worship an alien who, from our point of view, is the embodiment of evil.
Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
04:03 Motivations for meeting with creators
07:09 Who are Creators
07:53 Main Conflict
08:53 Weiland
09:43 David
10:50 Shaw
11:29 Metamorphosis
12:24 "Prometheus" ending explained
14:22 The meaning of the film "Prometheus"
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