Prometheus

Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott)

Ridley Scott's film, Prometheus, represents the maturity of the director's style in its narrative and formal structures. The thematic construction of the film remains allegiant to the conventional forms of storytelling recurred in the former Alien movies while the film is a prequel to the Alien series. Many of these similar patterns are the references that help the audience to explore the undercurrent layers of the narrative. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) is a scientist whose motivation to find out about the origin and "Engineers" persuades her to control the narrative at the end of the film. In terms of having survival instinct, her character is very similar to Ripley's in Alien (1979).  Shaw has a strong character that reminds the audience of Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien movies. Not surprisingly, she can leave the planet while David (Micheal Fassbinder), the robot, helps her to pilot the spaceship. (Another reference to the end of Aliens (1986, James Cameron)). Review By: Morad Sadeghi