DAVID 8 – EMERALD CRYSTAL AND

PURSUIT OF PERFECTION IN PROMETHEUS AND ALIEN COVENANT

INTRODUCTION

ALIEN IS 1970S MOST ICONIC HORROR FILM AND ONE VERY CLOSE
TO SUBGENRE OF COSMIC HORROR. THE FIRST DEALT WITH QUESTIONS
OF FEAR, SEXUALITY, PROCREATION, AND HUMAN INSECURITY IN THE
VAST COSMOS. IN 2010S TWO PREQUELS – PROMETHEUS AND ALIEN
COVENANT TRY TO EXPAND THIS DARK UNIVERSE BY INTRODUCING
PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS AND MYTHS THAT GIVE ANOTHER MUCH DEEPER
LAYER TO THIS STORY. IT WILL TURN OUT THAT THIS IS A STORY ABOUT
CREATION ITSELF AND ABOUT MYSTERIES OF EXISTENCE. IN THE CENTRE
OF IT ALL IS OF COURSE A PROTAGONIST, A DARK TWIN, OR TO BE
PRECISE - AN ANTIHERO – HE IS A REFLECTION OF HUMAN STRUGGLES,
OVER GOINGS AND DOWNFALLS. IT’S DAVID – AN ANDROID, A CREATION
OF HUMAN INGENUITY, A SPARK OF MUCH GREATER FIRE. BY DECODING
HIS OMINOUS NATURE AND HIS ASPIRATIONS, WE CAN REVEAL WHAT
AUTHORS THINK OF HUMANKIND AND ITS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE. HOW
WE ARE AFRAID OF EXISTENCE AND OF ANSWERS WE ARE GETTING FROM
THE DARK CORRIDORS OF COSMOS. IT’S A STORY ABOUT OUR ANXIETIES,
OF FEAR AND TREMBLING AT THE FACE OF UNKNOWN. DAVID’S PURSUIT
FOR PERFECTION IS AN ARCHETYPAL JOURNEY, A STROLL THROUGH
SPIRAL FOREST OF SYMBOLS AND HIDDEN MESSAGES. SIMILARITIES WITH
ANCIENT MYTHS, LEGENDS OF LUCIFER, PHILOSOPHER STONE AND OTHER
FABLES OF BYGONE AGES THAT PREDATES ORGANISED RELIGIONS WILL
PROVIDE US WITH MORE COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS UNCANNY
SAGA, AND PERHAPS THEN WE WILL FIND OUT WHO REALLY IS AN ALIEN…
PART I
ELECTRIC DREAMS – COLLECTIVE ARCHETYPAL
MYTHS AS EXPLANATIONS OF UNIVERSAL EMOTIONS