for example, the obvious transhumanist parallels of call and ripley and how they are subsequently fascinated with one another for all of their 30 minutes of shared screentime.
or the concept of waking up to learn that you have an alien in your chest and your body has been violated (stolen and sold as an incubator) while you were perfectly vulnerable (rape allegory) and your only lifeline is a group including some of the people who sold you. the people to whom which your body is a commodity. (also you are extremely attractive) this is given like 8 minutes of time in the film.
or the dynamic between ripley and the baby. it really is a baby. it doesn't know what it is and it doesn't know it's wrong and monstrous and it wants its mama. and she does care for it! at the same time it's a danger to those around it and ultimately ripley kills it (euthanizes?) could it have thrived? was it even biologically sound? who knows. i do know they made me feel extremely bad for it when it died in the movie. which is one of those sparse moments of blindingly good execution.
then there's less weighty concepts like guy with guns in his hands that rock and then there's like a 15 minute long underwater chase scene and you just have to lean back and accept that the movie is ass.
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