Before you read, spoilers ahead!!!

(and additionally, a trigger warning for adult topics if you're a minor!)

So... at the ripe age of 24, I've finally watched Alien (1979). I wasn't really into horror movies when I was younger (actually, I was terrified of horror movies and didn't even want to watch the trailers...). But I've been catching up on cult horror movies lately. 

I didn't understand the appeal in the beginning, I only noticed the amazing special effects and the awesome setting (like please I want to live in that spaceshift, that was so aesthetically pleasing...), so I had to watch a guide after. I have a small attention deficit, mainly due to being so addicted to social media, so it's really hard to follow movies right now, but I still wanted to understand the movie better, and why it was so important! 

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So turns out--- I missed a LOT of se*ual references and genitalia... But it did make a lot of sense after I rewatched the movie with that knowledge in mind (by the way, I watched this video by Novum! I love his movie analysis, they're so good. 

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So, the references...

I have to admit I was surprised that everything in the movie is basically... that. But now it makes sense, the doors, the weird spaceshift, the kinda graphic eggs and various liquids... It did make me super uncomfortable when I first watched the movie, but I didn't quite understand the reason. Now I get it and I can say that the movie worked perfectly for me! I felt disgusted, kinda weirded out, but I couldn't put into words why exactly I was feeling like that. The reason is simple: it's made to make you feel uncomfortable about impregnation and pregnancy, to make them look like a really perverted act. It's all a metaphor to show how people in that period where terrified at the idea of IVF and new technology employed to help women have children. People are still against this act, and especially during that period, they thought it would mean everything would just become so much that humanity would no longer have its own meaning. 

Everything was so evocative, from the beginning scene in the white room where the crew wakes up, to the opposition of red liquid (representing death) and white liquid (representing life). 

MY WIFE!!!

I find it very realistic that men in this movie are depicted as completely useless despite trying to be the heroes, while the final girl is the one who's never listened to during the whole movie but she's still the one to survive. I can kinda see myself in her. I think many women think the same thing. She has some kind of power to her, the nurturing aura of a mother who tries her best to defend her home from an intruder. She's brave, manages to stay calm during very dangerous situations, she's so calculating and intelligent. I think this is the first time I liked how a female character was depicted in a horror movie for real. There are other movies where I really like them (the first example that comes to mind is Immaculate), but she's just something else entirely. I've already watched Aliens (1986), the sequel to this first movie, I don't know if I'll write something about it too, but I can confirm that she is so cool! 

I think I've stopped rambling for the day. I wish I wrote a little bit more but I honestly don't really know how to write, so I just hope I'll get better at writing reviews, eventually!

(BTW why is the Xenomorph kinda... just kidding!! maybe...)