The sad dad is generally a fascist topoi— and one that finds its matured form in the videogame. The sad dad generally makes moral concessions or transgresses against society in order to protect a child, who has reinvigorated him. In videogames there’s a split that happens, where the sad dad feels the moral weight of his transgressions whereas we the player get to experience the pleasures of freedom-from-restraint that accompany them (killing zombies etc). This is an interesting sad dad,…
This was a competently made, vaguely satisfying alien movie that only kinda rubbed me the wrong way because it was so obviously a patchwork pastiche of every other alien movie. I feel like I can’t complain when it’s compared to stuff like alien resurrection and whatever the hell prometheus was. CG Ash was still kinda clunky.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So, what exactly is this movie supposed to be about? Tribalism on a family scale? How the families of abusers become complicit in the violence they commit? It goes out of its way to construct a world where violence is justified, presumably in order to put us in the mindset of someone who might justify violence, but it's too murky to say if it's successful or not at whatever it was trying to do. It's successfully spooky at least. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯…
I watch this movie every year and it means so much to me.
There is something so careful and lovely about a fairy tale where everyone has motives, where evil is acts rather than people, and where the plot resolves through de-escalation rather than domination, that makes this story kind of a revelation.
