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 Ripley is back. Born again. Virgin born, in fact. This time she has a helper, Call, who also has a dual nature. I was surprised by this movie. There are an amazing number of parallels to the Bible.
Review By David Bruce |
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ALIEN:
RESURRECTION
(1997) |
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This page was updated on
May 28, 2005
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"WITNESS THE RESURRECTION" |
Ripley: Sigourney Weaver,
Call: Winona Ryder,
Vriess: Dominique Pinon,
Johner: Ron Perlman,
Christie: Gary Dourdan,
Elgyn: Michael Wincott,
Hillard: Kim Flowers,
General Perez: Dan Hedaya.
20th Century Fox presents a film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Produced by Bill Badalato, Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill. Written by Joss Whedon. Photographed by Darius Khondji. Edited by Herve Schneid. Music by John Frizzell.
Running time: 109 minutes.
Classified R (for strong sci-fi violence and gore, some grotesque images and language). |
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In the last movie, Alien 3, Ripley died. Now, 200 years later she is resurrected from her DNA. She is virgin born in a science lab in a tube. She is born again, a clone of her former self. Resurrected in a new body that is capable of miraculous feats. The purpose here is to use her as a brood mare: she becomes the virgin birth mother of little alien monsters, which quickly grow up to be big evil monsters. They develop in her womb and are surgically removed. The interstellar human government wants to breed aliens for use in developing vaccines and medicines, even a superhuman gene pool. Ripley is the Virgin Mary and/or the New Eve -the virgin mother of the new super race. Ripley is part human and part alien with a remarkable body chemistry.
Her new super abilities are demonstrated on the basketball court. She makes hoops without looking, etc. The men on the spacecraft cannot defeat her, even in fist fighting. She is, indeed, superwoman. Her blood has a special corrosive quality. Like Jesus, she has a dual nature with special blood. |
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Ripley is Virgin Mary and Jesus combined. To make this point clear there is a scene where she stabs herself in the middle of her hand signifying the crucified messianic hand of Jesus.
Officials on the ship are very Nazi-like. They use unsuspecting humans in deadly experiments to host the aliens. These officials have no idea of the evil they are breeding. |
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| The ship is huge and vast with many rooms connected by massive hallways. The ship reminded me of the brain with its many rooms. In one scene a man pulls an alien substance out of his brain. Light flashes along on the floor like neuron electrical flashes in the brain. Like the mind there are certain rooms we don't like to visit, but must. Ripley must deal with her imperfect and horrific past when she enters a room filled with failed attempts of her creation. Dealing with past certain events in our own memory banks can be just as horrifying. |
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| Sent from earth to help comes the Tramp Freighter with a crew that includes Call (Ryder). She is thought to be human. However, when she is shot in the stomach and falls 'dead' in the water (=grave, baptism) we learn that she is more than human when she is resurrected. She is a robot human. Dual natured like Jesus. |
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| Call and Ripley go to the Chapel to patch into the ship's computer. There, in the Chapel, is a huge cross and a computer Bible. Call crosses herself with her hand as she enters the Chapel and she bows at the cross. There is a scene similar to this in Amistad. Ripley removes the computer connection from the electronic Bible and plugs it into Call. This is an amazing scene filled with interesting icons and symbols. Leaving the Cross in the chapel they are now ready to defeat the evil monsters. Ripley uses the fact that she is the birth mother of the monsters to keep herself safe. She is able to encounter the monsters face to face. |
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| The monsters are now self -breeding similar here to Jurassic Park. To escape, the women board a shuttlecraft, leaving the mother ship as it blows up killing all the alien monsters on board. All, except the baby monster that has boarded their craft in pursuit of its mother --Ripley. This monster must go. Ripley uses the corrosive blood from her hand and throws some on the craft's window, which puts a small hole in it. There is enough pressure to pull the little monster to the hole and suck it out in small pieces into outer space (=eternity). The blood on the hand (=Jesus' crucified hand) is also featured in Relic, Gattaca, and Amistad. In all these films it signifies salvation and freedom. |
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A new day is born as their space ship speeds home. The happy ending has an almost cosmic feel to it.
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CHRISTY NEEDS MENTIONING
Subject: Christy :)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000
From: Ray
Nobody mentioned the male mercenary "Christy" sacrificing himself to save the crippled engineer.
DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ALIEN MOVIES
April 15, 1999.
Well I really enjoyed the movie- Alien Resurrection. It was very different from the other Alien Movies I have watched over the years, at my young age, I found them boring, but luckily I saw all of them and then saw the Fourth and everything made sense. And I believe that the Aliens were/are not evil, but are in fact going by instincts. For E.G, You don't see a bear that can be dangerous if threatened, having a cup of tea with people do you, their instinct is either run or check out the food supply. And I really need to say that I'm sick of people putting Alien Resurrection down all the time. Those type of people have most likely never been a fan of the series or have never seen 1,2, and maybe three!
NO MEN
Although not as threatening and grounded in human reality as Alien 3, more in line with the glossy gore of Aliens 2, Alien Resurrection bravely asked questions about life and evil. Regretfully it never moved beyond the goodies winning in the end. What about the role of men? these were insubstantial figures et against Ripley and Call. Are men no longer seen as heroes?
Keep in touch and God bless
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