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RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien

Posted by geoffkait on August 23, 2013 at 12:45:19:
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"How could David have human feelings? He's not human."

That's kind of a major theme in Prometheus - who's human, who's not human, how can you tell the difference? The Engineers had human DNA but didn't look human, you know, what with the dark, dead eyes and white blue skin. Was the character played by Charlize Theron, Weyland's daughter, a robot like David? It's difficult to be sure, but if she wasn't she certainly behaved like one.

As I intimated earlier, this is a BIG theme in Blade Runner - were the replicants as human than humans? How do you tell if an individual is a human or a replicant? With embedded memories put there by Tyrell even the replicants sometimes were not aware they weren't human. Cases in point - Rachel and Deckard. In A.I., by the end of the movie, humans had ceased to exist, and robots had learned to create increasingly advanced robots until they were super human. In fact, I don't think I'd be going out on limb too much by saying that Prometheus has more in common with Blade Runner than with Alien. The ideas that robots and computers can be made to think, learn and have human emotions are concepts that run through many science fiction movies.