Fun Stuff > ENJOY
Alien
LeeC:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 04 Dec 2012, 09:26 ---If you analyze Aliens, I actually wonder if it has more to say about motherhood, PTSD or Survivor's Guilt. Motherhood is definitely the one that has the most obvious and central message.
--- End quote ---
actually more about the womb and birth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4epUu67vc
ackblom12:
Later Alien films definitely, Resurrection practically beats you about the head with it, but Aliens was much more centered around Maternity. Two mothers waging a war, one for survival and the protection of her child, the other for revenge of her fallen children. The most famous line, "Get away from her you bitch!", during one of the most famous fights between two figures of motherhood is just about the clearest it can get.
LeeC:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 04 Dec 2012, 09:50 ---Later Alien films definitely, but Aliens was very much centered around Maternity. Two mothers waging a war, one for survival and the protection of her child, the other for revenge of her fallen children.
--- End quote ---
the sequel definately, but the original is more about the womb and birth.
ackblom12:
Ohhh, right yes. I'm talking specifically about Aliens with that question. What Aliens does have to say about PTSD isn't exactly the most hopeful message. It's downright depressing if you take into account Alien 3.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 04 Dec 2012, 09:26 ---If you analyze Aliens, I actually wonder if it has more to say about motherhood, PTSD or Survivor's Guilt. Motherhood is definitely the one that has the most obvious and central message.
--- End quote ---
Thats the interesting thing about Aliens. Scratching the surface, and the mothering is a form of transference, considering what happened to Ripley's own daughter. Go a little deeper and its another difference between humans and the xenomorphs. Nurture versus facehugging lovin'. That we see one member of a species going out of her way to ensure the welfare and well being of a child she has no biological ties to, to a member of another species who sole purpose is to reproduce, devour and reproduce, is meant to show us how utterly alien the xenomorphs are.
Then you have the comparisons between Newt and Ripley as well as the contrasts. Ripley barely survived against one alien over a couple of days, while Newt survived weeks in a hive. Ripley was functioning while Newt must have been mentally broken, yeah, she's a survivor (longer than anyone else in the franchise), but she's also a kid and barely survived.
The whole of Aliens could be seen as a metaphor for Vietnam and the PTSD many soldiers were suffering from because of that conflict. You have a number of soldiers, being sent into a confined area against an unknown enemy and being led by a corrupt bureaucrat and an incompetent officer. Which leads to so many unnecessary deaths.
Really, the fact that Aliens is able to have so many messages and facets shows that it is one of those rare sequels that matches up to the original, and does so by not feeling the need to rehash whats been done before.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version