Culture Crush: Prometheus

Two weeks have passed since I watched Ridley Scott’s film Prometheus and that muscle headed alien has left an imprint. I have obsessively searched for review and analysis, the best I’ve found on blogpost Cavalorn's Journal. Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes have been pored over to find kinship or scorn in the case of ‘Rubbish!’ ‘Frustrating film of the year’ and ‘One dimensional characters’, typed disgruntled audiences due to the many unanswered questions. But it’s the holes in the screenplay that I’ve fallen into and enjoyed the extra curriculum aspect of the whole experience.

Prometheus asks more questions than he answers

Let us consider the topic matter...and realise that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Ridley to present all the answers to the questions thrown up, because the film is fundamentally a quest for humankind’s origins; which falls into three main categories: Evolution, God or something else.

The future's looking rather porky

Is the monkey in the zoo an ancestor or were we moulded from clay by the man-maker in the sky? The wildcard theory could be any episode of the Outer Limits or scenario in the brilliant head mess book from neuroscientist David Eagleman’s Sum Tales from the Afterlife.

Serious crush on the black material

I was mesmerised by a stylish Prometheus promo cover on Dazed and Confused featuring the lead actor Noomi Rapace, and its dark other worldly aspect.

Piss Christ by Serrano

Is finding out the origins of humankind the ultimate life quest? It has been approached in many religious art forms from Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam in Sistine Chapel through to the controversy surrounding Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ, but I struggled to find metaphorical or evolution art with the same impact as art inspired by a belief in God.

How can this be captured in art?

Where is the beautiful art which addresses the nature of the universe? Will this change in the future as our society becomes more secular?

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