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In Reply to: Yep, I've read those comments too and even interviews with Scott that talk about Jesus posted by Jazz Inmate on August 3, 2014 at 14:10:45:
...these are exerpts from my favorite analysis of the film:>Yeah. The reason the Engineers don't like us any more is that they made us a Space Jesus, and we broke him. Reader, that's not me pulling wild ideas out of my arse. That's RIDLEY SCOTT.
So, imagine poor crucified Jesus, a fresh spear wound in his side. Oh, hey, there's the 'lifegiver with his abdomen torn open' motif again. That's three times now: Prometheus, Engineer mural, Jesus Christ. And I don't think I have to mention the 'sacrifice in the interest of giving life' bit again, do I? Everyone on the same page? Good.>
>The 'Caesarean' scene is central to the film's themes of creation, sacrifice, and giving life. Shaw has discovered she's pregnant with something non-human and sets the autodoc to slice it out of her. She lies there screaming, a gaping wound in her stomach, while her tentacled alien child thrashes and squeals in the clamp above her and OH HEY IT'S THE LIFEGIVER WITH HER ABDOMEN TORN OPEN. How many times has that image come up now? Four, I make it. (We're not done yet.)
And she doesn't kill it. And she calls the procedure a 'caesarean' instead of an 'abortion'.>
>Here's where the Christian allegories really come through. The day of this strange birth just happens to be Christmas Day. And this is a 'virgin birth' of sorts, although a dark and twisted one, because Shaw couldn't possibly be pregnant. And Shaw's the crucifix-wearing Christian of the crew. We may well ask, echoing Yeats: what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards LV-223 to be born?
Consider the scene where David tells Shaw that she's pregnant, and tell me that's not a riff on the Annunciation. The calm, graciously angelic android delivering the news, the pious mother who insists she can't possibly be pregnant, the wry declaration that it's no ordinary child... yeah, we've seen this before.
'And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.'
A barren woman called Elizabeth, made pregnant by 'God'? Subtle, Ridley.>
You see what you want to see...
Edits: 08/03/14 08/03/14
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Follow Ups
- What does it all mean? - mkuller 14:29:47 08/03/14 (6)
- RE: What does it all mean? - Jazz Inmate 16:04:58 08/03/14 (5)
- LOL! - mkuller 17:24:45 08/03/14 (4)
- RE: LOL! - Jazz Inmate 18:19:49 08/03/14 (3)
- Yup, all hearsay. And that guy is obviously compulsive-obsessive. Not everything in a film is - tinear 08:43:43 08/05/14 (1)
- Read the interview with him...(nt) - mkuller 10:05:19 08/05/14 (0)
- LMAO! - mkuller 21:48:05 08/03/14 (0)
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