A small task...

We can dissect this film into molecules and argue over the pieces. Let's try something different for a moment. Before you attempt to rationalize what you've seen or think you've seen use your imagination. You were selected to take part in this expedition to a place further than man has ever gone before. You have entrusted your life to the techonology provided by Weyland Corporation as well as your fellow crew members. Each of you was chosen for a specific purpose there. Some of you believe you will find the answers to some of life's most basic questions, Who are we, where did we come from. There will also be the usual assortment of detractors aboard who think the entire voyage will be for nothing. That you will find nothing, or what you find will be dead so long it will be pointless.Regardless, put yourself in that ship, you know who you are, what you believe which camp you would be in. Now we've arrived, My God we're on a planet on the other side of the galaxcy and there are buildings! Some will be ecstatic, others frightened out of their mind. Everything you learned about life being so rare, and our being the sole planet that produced technologically advanced life has just gone POOF. Could you honestly say that you could just strap on your boots screw on that goldfish bowl and march into a temple of alien construction that probably predates the appearance of man on Earth. Really? All the rules, morality, and norms that we expect because we are bipeds with similar traits might not apply to these beings. Speaking from my perspective my skin would be damp, freezing, I'd be absolutely ready to turn around and go HOME at the first indication of trouble. The first sign that something isn't quite right. Let them send in a whole ship full of David's. Cowardace has nothing to do with it, all people have a self preservation mechanism that kicks in and tells you that you are WAY in over your head, the adrenaline surges, pupils dialate, muscle fibers contract, digeston shuts down. circulation increases. That's the kind of scare you are going to get from this film because Ridley knows how to get inside that part of you that atrophies in our safe, brightly lit, organized lives.