@TentPole said:
@FengShuiGod said:
I was left feeling unfulfilled.The film doesn't try to answer any of it's "questions,"
This right here tells me that the movie went right over your head. It doesn't answer the questions because it isn't about the questions. It is not about the meaning or origin of life. It is a film about mankind's drive to find answers to those questions which by their very nature can't be answered.
You should watch A Serious Man. You would love it. In both films the lack of answers is the whole point.
Like I said, I have no problem with it's lack of answers, and I don't need mind boggling insights. For example, The Tree of Life was a film I had my problems with, but it dealt with unanswerable questions much more deftly than Prometheus did. Your claim and others that the film goes right over my head is kinda ridiculous. If I don't think the film possesses much beyond a nihilistic wink, it is somehow over my head? If I am left feeling unfulfilled, it somehow follows that I am left feeling unfulfilled because things weren't spelled out for me? I guess I should take 2001: A Space Odyssey off my list of perennial favorites because its too much for me to handle. Mine as well burn all those David Lynch films too. The bottom line is I think Prometheus' reach exceeds its grasp.
@boj4ngles said:
I think I and a few other people have explained pretty well how there is a lot more going on than "like, robots and aliens and shit". In fact, now that I'm re-reading what you just posted, I don't even know why I'm responding. You didn't make any specific criticisms, it reads like a whole load of B.S. It sounds like you were struggling with the film and couldn't get over some intellectual hurdle. Shit, now I'm getting petty again. Well so what. Stick to Transformers buddy. That way you'll always have Optimus Prime to explain in very clear terms what the message of the movie is.
I'm not saying the movie isn't doing more, but many fanboys often fail to articulate what is going on beyond the level of "robots and aliens and shit," and it seems they mistake spectacle for meaning. I never said you were part of the aforementioned group....
I also don't know how you think I am struggling with some intellectual hurdle. The fact that the film felt like little more than pop-philosophy to me doesn't mean it's difficult. Really, I don't know why I am responding. You post reads like a whole load of b.s.
And what's with the ad-hominem? Ultimately, the film is enjoyable, like I said. The fact the we can even talk about a blockbuster in such terms, even if I associate it with a failure to deliver, should be regarded as a success. Because I think its metaphysical touch was a bit heavy handed and failed to synthesize with its visual bombast means you think I am an ignoramus who should stick to Transformers? Too bad. Maybe you should stick to Prometheus, because something like Le Samourai, or Wild Strawberries is probably beyond your keen.
@JazGalaxy said:
But what IS a soul? How does one create it? For all the bio-engineering going on in the film, how come no one has found the ability to create a soul? What is the nature of your own soul? Do you believe you even have one?
So does she believe in God because she believes he exists, or because the need to believe in God helps her to deal with her reality?
Do these Engineers have souls? They are human, but gigantic, which harkens back to the Nephalim of the Bible. A human-like beings in Genesis that no one really knows much about.
The engineers "created" humanity, but then sought to destroy it. This is very similar to the way God chose to destroy the world in the Flood after he saw that mankind was evil.
"If we are created beings, are we loved? Or are we abandoned? And if we're abandoned, why? And if and when we meet God, will be embrace us? Or attempt to destroy us again?"
See, these existential questions for me aren't really deep or meaningful. Something like Blood Meridian, or the mystic writings of Jacob Boehme, or on the film side of things something like Solaris deal with gnostic themes at a level far beyond Prometheus. Questions like, "Do you believe in a soul," just seem too easy to pose and to unfulfilling to think about. Just my opinion, ofc.
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