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In Reply to: Promethius questions....MEGA SPOILERS. Don't look if you ain't seen it. posted by Enophile on June 16, 2012 at 15:15:32:
Promethius questions....
1) Who was the guy at the beginning?
I took him to be Promethius and he was seeding the Earth with DNA that would eventually create us.
I think you're correct that he was the maker who played God. His people were not pleased with him or his invention, just as the Greek Gods were not pleased at Prometheus for introducing fire to man.
2) Why did you think the engineers wanted to kill the humans?
I took it as though we were never meant to exist - having been 'seeded' by Promethius - and the engineers were going to eliminate a species that wasn't supposed to exist....us.
Well that's the question that ends the movie, isn't it? We aren't given enough clues. For me, it was all just symbolic of the human condition as it related to the myth of Prometheus.
3) But then....who told us about that specific star grouping to put into the ancient paintings/carvings, which obviously took place long after we came to exist? Was it Promethius, and what we saw at the start of the flick was him self-destructing after accomplishing what he set out to do?
I don't think that's an issue. The premise of the film is that mankind knew this star grouping had relevance. They also drew images of the being, indicating there was contact.
4) Then, if we weren't meant to exist, why would Promethius point us toward the planet that was manufacturing our demise rather than the home planet of the engineers?
The whole point is that there is always a higher purpose beyond the knowable engineering. It's important to strive for the answers and care about the reasons that explain existence. But faith in a benign and caring higher creator is more important. With fire, in the story of Prometheus, man was given the light of knowledge, but knowledge can be a curse where faith can be salvation. That is the human condition. And part of the brilliance of the film is the signs that the engineers too recognized their knowledge and creation as a curse and their potential undoing. Someone correctly pointed out the maker's violent reaction when he realized the human creation had started creating its own approximation of life so advanced it could communicate.
I'll stop now.
Good idea.
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Follow Ups
- Finally got around to seeing it. My take - Jazz Inmate 22:06:13 06/18/12 (7)
- Faith contradicted by knowledge is false. Lies never are good. nt - tinear 14:40:53 06/22/12 (5)
- faith is more about the unknowable, which de facto cannot intersect with empiricism NT - Jazz Inmate 22:13:12 06/22/12 (4)
- Absolutely. It is unknowable, JI, so flee from those who create fictions as "religion." nt - tinear 08:35:52 06/23/12 (3)
- Put a cork in it NT - Jazz Inmate 11:05:17 06/23/12 (2)
- The white flag shows yet again. nt - tinear 10:25:04 06/24/12 (1)
- No one has surrendered to you in your life, least of all me. Stick to the movie discussion NT - Jazz Inmate 19:03:17 06/24/12 (0)
- Beautifully distilled. ~t - mpathus 11:08:50 06/19/12 (0)
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