Review of Alien: Covenant (2017) by Thomas H — 25 May 2017

Like the Tom Ford drama Nocturnal Animals, Alien Covenant is possibly the means to cancelling the Second World War.

In 1979, Alien was the unintentional problem of peace that was because of no problem, and the value of difference that isn't the opposite of uniformity. In 2017, Alien Covenant is "about" the dynamic of peace that is because of no problem, and it's replication of the original mistake in 1979 is a great mirror-image to the metaphorical power of David.

Post-Prometheus, the evolution of the Alien franchise has taken a very steep incline; David's story of attacking hierarchy is the allegory of poignancy being the inability of hierarchy to be equality in the form of the replication of the original absence of the original state of reality. Hierarchy was never true, and yet the story of Alien Covenant is a metaphor for the value of seeking understanding despite original understanding. In spite of the original knowledge, that destruction was never necessary, the original force of reality wasn't satisfied with that understanding because it wasn't good enough to have to understand that anti wasn't possible. Even the knowledge that peace was inevitable was enough to mean destruction, and David being the creator of the xenomorphs is a very smart and very artistic representation of that dynamic.

Structure-wise, Alien Covenant works really well. The temple that David resides in is a fantastic juxtaposition to the modern Covenant ship, and what's particularly interesting is that David and the temple seem some sort of allusion to Beauty and the Beast, possessing important aspects that are able to be interpreted as aspects from the story of Beauty and the Beast.

Unlike many, many other movies, the ending of Alien Covenant is in fact the possibility of very deep metaphysical awareness; namely, that the correlation between the human embryos and the facehugger embryos is an allusion to the idea of why reality is both atomic particles and streets, or both press conferences and outer space. What is the logic of difference outright, or the logic of different uniformities?

Again, it's a testament to the nature of Alien Covenant that its seeming allusion to this level of intelligence doesn't come off as humorous or self-defeating.

And not only this, but it also appears to be within the remit of Alien Covenant that its dealing with the idea of poignancy being the inability of hierarchy to be equality isn't an accomplishment, but an obstacle. Perhaps Alien Covenant is an antagonistic stance toward the self-awareness of pointless destruction as a value, and that the second presence of reality is the need of the first presence to prevent the ability of the second presence.

As for Elizabeth Shaw, her final fate is a representation of self-awareness being a false bias; her death and type of death is infinitely invaluable, supported by David's allegorical power.

Lastly, Alien Covenant is a replication of the evolutionary process that is the immunity of evolution to replication.