Could this movie just be a representation of our lives?

Too... much... coffee... methinks...

If every question were answered then what would be the point of our existence, you ask? Well, we certainly don't have most of the questions answered and we still don't know the point of our existence. I, for one, think we would actually know the point if we had the answers.

but if you had the answers to all the questions what would be the point, is the point to have all the answers, ask all the questions or are the questions themselves the point, with the answers being pointless. The answer is that its a good point to ask questions, not getting the answers to the questions, which is beyond the point...

In an Infinite Univere, all questions one makes about it [and in it] are, forcely, infinite. Don't worry about paradoxes. The Universe seems to hate them.

I think that maybe this movie [i]wishes[/i] it was a metaphor for our human existence. I don't see how the example is in any way, at all, a, "paradox"? You've given a definition and yet there are no terminal conclusions in your own example? Can you explain?

Definitely not a paradox, asking a question and getting no answer is not a paradox.

All in all there is just too much wrong with this movie. On purpose. I believe every last thing was thought of and Prometheus was just a small part of the bigger picture. After all the myth of Prometheus does say he was known to be a trickster. So with that said I can just about 95% guarantee that there will be answers. I believe they filmed a ton for this movie and got it all in one shot. My only complaint to that would be they better bring out this second part really soon, perhaps the whole 10-11-12 thing is hinting towards that. I'm just like everybody else who only wants damn answers. I just choose to believe that there will be answers to everything. Perhaps Yutani has something to do with it?

Well, i think prometheus is most of all an interpretation of our farts. You never know when they come, you never know where they go, but THEY ARE THERE, and though they may have temporarely some impact, you know that they are what they are - warm air.

My life for sure is much better than this movie! ;-0

@ deftones1986 I think you’re right. And I think your theory is easily proven. Here are character names with their meanings in brackets. See if they behave exactly as their names dictate: • Janek (God is gracious) • Meredith (Great Lord) Vickers (vicars? Substitutes in office) • Peter (stone) Weyland • David (beloved) • Charlie (free man) But the one character who survives the movie intact (unlike David) • Elizabeth (my god is a vow) Two to guess at: • Millburn (literally burning mill?) • Fifield (fie – expressing disgust; and field – a field = a poisoned field?) Doesn’t Janek graciously sacrifice himself, arms outstretched, alongside two crew? They are crewmen - aren’t criminal gangs referred to as ‘crews’? Perhaps the Crucifixion is recalled here. Peter Weyland is a ‘stone’: he is not going to change and death is the ultimate change. David is his ‘beloved’ but android while his flesh and blood daughter is his substitute or the ‘vicar of a great lord’ who accepts Janek. Once both Weyland and Janek are dead, she has no purpose because there are no great lords left for whom she can substitute. So she dies. Charlie is a ‘free man’ who, from David’s viewpoint, freely chooses to drink from the poisoned chalice and Elizabeth … now she is a paradox. Millburn and Fifield are two very sloppy scientists and perhaps equate to the gravediggers or clowns in Shakespeare (they started life as the Vices of Mystery Plays) who knew better but remained just gravediggers. This means that ALL the characters bar Elizabeth are true to their names’ meanings (i.e. they are not paradoxical) but Shaw is a complete paradox: she tells no one she has given birth to a squid, has no care as to “nudity”, performs a surgical op in a male MedPod, feels no crippling pain after the “caesarean” (wasn’t it an abortion?), runs, jumps, leaps and fights off an “Engineer” and, to cap it, jumps aboard an alien craft to ask those who would wipe out humanity why they want to do it! They’ll kill her. Probably without telling her why etc. Also, religions are paradoxical, aren’t they? (Believe in this and you will live forever when you are dead) Shaw’s whole existence is a paradox. Maybe this is why her character survives: as you say, once you have all the answers, what’s the point of existence? Isn’t it better to travel than arrive?

@deftones 1986 Further to my earlier response to your brilliant post ... Silly me. Even the strap line is a paradox: "The search for our beginning could lead to our end" Ho ho! Ha ha! Sir Ridley (riddle-ee?) Scott strikes again! Good movie then.

'' I'm thinking that maybe this movie is a metaphor about our own human existence''... only if we were all underachieving but overrated screenwriters .

Thanks xenodochy thats what im gettin at

@xenodochy/deftones1986 Re: "The search for our beginning could lead to our end". Uhm...I'm a little confused - that doesn't seem anything at all like a paradox, either? Nor is it a riddle?.. It's seems, to me, to be, quite, "good", Marketing Copy - [perhaps a lot, "better", than they might have liked, if read in any way as a direct parallel to the film] - as it is very suggestive of some kind of sophisticated and profound philosophical observation while, in fact, it actually seems to say absolutely nothing of real significance, nor surprise? It seems to me that, all this is, is very simple speculation - delivered in such a way as to connote significance in the act of searching, while playing upon the notions of, "beginning", and, "end". However, that doesn't make it particularly meaningful? You could quite easily answer, "Well, yes: very obviously, the fact is - that it could". I'd suggest you could equally well say: "Reaching, up high, could cause you to fall", for the same net effect - as, yes: yes, indeed - it could. While the speculated outcomes might be unfortunate in both cases, I don't think it would be the least profound to point the fact out - nor am I very well able to see, at present, how the statements would be, in any way, paradoxical.