In Reply to: RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism posted by geoffkait on August 17, 2013 at 06:17:50:
I interpreted the sacrifice in the first scene as the credits roll to be a punishment for that particular engineer who established life on Earth against the will of his people.
As I've said, the black goo ultimately represents technology. The engineers represent Prometheus in the Greek myth. They were not supposed to give life or knowledge to humans and they were punished for it. They also came to regard humans with regret for a variety of fairly obvious reasons best manifest when the surviving engineer comes to the realization that humans are now creating their own inventions (whereupon the engineer rips off the head of David and lifts off in his ship to do what he meant to do 2000 years earlier).
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- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - Jazz Inmate 16:39:03 08/17/13 (29)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - geoffkait 04:29:06 08/18/13 (28)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - Jazz Inmate 12:59:24 08/18/13 (27)
- The Green vial and black goo - geoffkait 06:08:11 08/19/13 (23)
- These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - Jazz Inmate 08:56:54 08/19/13 (22)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - geoffkait 09:10:44 08/19/13 (21)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - Jazz Inmate 09:22:37 08/19/13 (20)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - geoffkait 10:22:48 08/19/13 (19)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - Jazz Inmate 11:00:01 08/19/13 (18)
- Like Chinatown what is presented in Prometheus ain't necessary what's really going on. - geoffkait 15:43:53 08/19/13 (17)
- Chinatown is a "whodunnit" in the film noir tradition - Jazz Inmate 19:35:22 08/19/13 (16)
- If you don't think Prometheus is a whodunit you must have watched a different movie. - geoffkait 04:32:46 08/20/13 (15)
- You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 18:41:20 08/20/13 (14)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 06:52:47 08/21/13 (2)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 11:02:39 08/21/13 (1)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 18:05:50 08/21/13 (0)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 06:43:03 08/21/13 (10)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 11:47:13 08/21/13 (9)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 16:52:57 08/21/13 (8)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 16:13:31 08/22/13 (7)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 18:16:09 08/22/13 (6)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 20:09:25 08/22/13 (5)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 04:22:34 08/23/13 (4)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 10:45:08 08/23/13 (3)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 12:45:19 08/23/13 (2)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 08:01:14 08/25/13 (1)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 14:35:44 08/25/13 (0)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - geoffkait 14:04:57 08/18/13 (2)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - Jazz Inmate 09:19:42 08/19/13 (1)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - geoffkait 11:10:34 08/19/13 (0)