(Spoiler Alert: I'm gonna be blogging about stuff in the movie "Prometheus." This stuff may or may not "spoil" your experience, so, um, you've been warned...I guess.)
I have a tendency to get all "pseudo intellectual" and try and pontificate about stuff that 1) doesn't really need to be talked about or 2) I have no real knowledge about.
So, I'm gonna avoid all that with this particular blog post. I'm just gonna write about stuff I saw in this movie that I couldn't believe I just saw. Here goes:
1. A beautiful, giant, "meta-human" drinking acid and falling into a pristine waterfall all-the-while getting a nuclear glimpse into the destruction and creation of something that looked like DNA.
2. A sopping wet Charlize Theron doing push-ups in nothing but conveniently placed ace bandages.
3. Badass spaceship. (I'm talkin' Millennium Falcon territory....)
4. An android riding a bicycle and shooting hoops.
(Well, it sorta looked like this...)
6. Space worms that had features of both a vagina and a penis. (I know, I couldn't believe it either...)
--No image here, this is a family blog, folks...(Perv!)---
7. An android's head being zipped-up into a duffle bag for safe keeping.
--No image here either, (Perv!)--
8. A full-on Cesarian Section performed by robots!
That sums it up for the visuals of the film that took me by (pleasant-and-often-unsettling) surprise.
Here are the "themes" that are still buzzing around in my head after watching:
1. Where do we come from?
2. Do androids count electric sheep?
3. Are religion and science basically the same thing?
4. Are we hard-wired to court creation and destruction, consequences be damned?
5. Will we ever make androids?
6. Are dudes messing with DNA to make monstrosities right now?
7. Will we be able to map memories and dreams?
I consider it a great artistic accomplishment for a film when I walk out of a theater with more than the residual effects of Diet Coke and Dots swimming in my head (or stomach)...
Anyhoo,
My favorite part of the movie was Michael Fassbender's portrayal of an android. There is something so fascinating with Ridley Scott's casting of androids (aka "replicants") in his respective movies: (see: Blade Runner, and Alien). He casts these brilliantly humanistic, quasi-Shakesperean actors to play a role lacking in humanity--but maybe that's the point. In each of these films, Mr. Scott presents fascinating observations on what it means to be human...
(Oops, there I go, getting all "pseudo intellectual" again...)
Did I mention Charlize Theron is a fox?
