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Oct 28, 2023 · There's no scientific evidence for aliens in the declassified UFO videos, in mutilated cows whose injuries are blamed on extraterrestrial activities or in purported alien bodies. Nor is there any...
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Feb 24, 2017 · Adam Rutherford. No one goes to a space horror flick for a science lecture, but the producers of “Life” took pains to throw in some real-life background about astrobiology, the challenges of...
- Priming The Big Reveal
- The Twist
- Survival and Sacrifice
- Metamorphosis
- Alien Intelligence
- The Meaning of Life
- Them and Us
For the most part, this story runs on a well-worn groove: astronauts pick up an alien entity, and the alien picks off the astronauts, one by one. Sounds derivative? Actually, that familiarity is a red herring. Rather than a series of deaths followed by triumph or the suggestion of hope, Life bends the rules of story resolution. There’s no last-minu...
With the rest of the crew dead, Miranda and medical officer David (Jake Gyllenhaal) have one last chance to save the planet. David lures Calvin into an escape pod. He means to manually override the auto-pilot for as long possible, marooning himself – and the killer creature – in deep space. This lets Miranda escape in the other pod and raise the al...
More than any other cinema profession (…probably), sacrifice is hard-coded into the astronaut job description. This is particularly true of films that send people into outer space for the good of humanity, though we also see it in films with space-likeenvironments (i.e., ocean-floor movies). Miranda and David are both willing to die to save the hum...
Here’s a question: does the same alien kill each crew member?Well, maybe yes and no. Hugh discovers a single-cell organism in the Mars sample. A few days later, the neighbouring cells converge (though each cell can function independently as eye, brain and skin). Together, they’re not a colony but a complex organism, a delicate thread-like bundle of...
We’ve been dramatising the Martian threat since at least the 19th century. Life revisits this sci-fi staple … with a spin. Rather than technologically advanced or even humanoid beings, this Martian isn’t intelligent. Or so we think. Miranda fears biological threat, i.e., anthrax, yet no one predicts a coordinated attack. It’s just bacteria, right? ...
For a one-word title, Life makes a meal of ambiguity. That’s quite fitting, though, as the title’s shifting meaning reflects the story’s false turns and red herrings. 1. Initially it’s about finding life beyond Earth. 2. Because Mars was once like Earth, the alien amoeba promises to unlock the secrets of our existence, too. 3. However, the alien’s ...
The crew certainly don’t want to die. But aside from the breaks of evolutionary divergence, what separates their complexity from Calvin’s is valuing life beyond their own. Obviously our drive to survive is at least partly about individual existence, but also about the continuity of our species, and of those we love. The stories we tell often celebr...
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Mar 28, 2017 · March 28, 2017. Sony Pictures. Daniel Espinosa’s surprisingly not terrible space flick, Life, works on a formula notably perfected by Alien: Dump a bunch of people into a cloistered, confined ...
In the film, a six-member crew of the International Space Station uncovers the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. When members of the crew conduct their research, the rapidly evolving life-form proves to be far more intelligent and dangerous than expected.
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Nov 25, 2023 · Aliens are having a moment. But the evidence says all possibilities remain in play, including the possibility that we are alone.
Jan 18, 2021 · January 18, 2021. Encountering aliens would be surprising; the fact that we haven’t yet heard from any is perhaps even more so. Illustration by Paul Sahre. On October 19, 2017, a Canadian...
