Thoughts from Japan SPOILERS

Just saw it. Loved the film. Not a horror film, but had horror elements. This was a film about faith, and what happens when you lose it. Shaw keeps her faith, and in the end is the only person to ask the right questions to the Engineer. She struggles with her faith, but eventually understands what is important to her. She lives. Holloway is interesting. But he loses his faith at the halfway point, and unwittingly sells his soul. David even asks permission to poison him, to which Charlie, not understanding, says yes. He finds his faith again, but the black liquid is changing him into something inhuman. Holloway's faith is in Humanity. Therefore, to be something else violates his faith. Vickers has no faith, period. She is spiteful, vengeful, and desperate. She hates her father, and in an attempt to survive, seals her fate. (We sometimes meet our end on the path we take to avoid it.) David is a machine and cannot understand faith. He isn't killed, but is torn apart. David is innocent, a slave to Weyland. Weyland has no faith, and is afraid of death. He believes there is nothing after death, and is the antithesis to Shaw's father. He has no faith in his daughter, so he creates a son in her image (this is psychologically fun to dig into, maybe another post.) Fifield has no faith. He is fearful, angry, and selfish. He is transformed and dies. Milburn is fearful and weak. He is easily led astray. He dies horribly. Ford: Caught in the middle. Faithless? Perhaps. The pilots, Janek, Chance, and Ravel, commit self sacrifice. It is the ultimate display of faith. Even the Engineers lose their faith. They lost their faith in humanity, apparently, and in their attempt to destroy us, the Engineers on LV-223 are killed off by their own weapons. It continues themes from Alien about perfection, creation, and destruction. Pure sexuality (that stems from love or the simplicity of human emotion) versus perverse sexuality (rape). The Shaw and Holloway love scene seems pure, but it is turned on its head into perversion because of Weyland. In essence, Shaw is raped by Weyland and impregnated with the demon spawn of his intention. Milburn is raped by the Hammerpede. The Engineer is raped by the Trilobite. Janek and Vickers have fun...supposedly. The sexuality in Prometheus isn't as pronounced as in Alien, but it is there. The black liquid is an interesting symbol. Are there two different liquids? The liquid, when it comes into contact with humans, brings out what's in the dark parts of our souls. Fifield is monstrous. Holloway has enough humanity and faith to know he's becoming something bad. As for the Deacon...the personification of all the negative themes in Prometheus. It's the Engineer's son. The monster of a being without faith. In the end, its all about keeping the faith. In a way, Scott isn't asking people to really answer the questions. He is asking us to have faith. If we keep it, things will turn out ok.