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Alien: Covenant’s major theme is about the relationship between creators and their creations. As David says, near the end of the film, pretending to be Walter, “I think if we are kind, it will be a kind world.” There’s an unspoken corollary there: if we are unkind, it will be an unkind world.

Every question answered. We spent over 30 hours studying, dissecting and hopefully explaining everything there is to know about The Wailing.

Welcome to the best explanation of Perfect Blue available on the internet. This article will analyze, calculate, disentangle and decode all of the essential details required to understand the deeply nuanced and convoluted story of Perfect Blue. What happened? Why…

Why is the movie called Under the Skin? The title Under the Skin is a crucial clue to what’s happening in the movie. It gets at the idea of looking beneath the surface. At going beyond appearance. It’s similar to…

What is Alien: Romulus about? Alien: Romulus is about the difficulty in leaving the life you’ve known for something new. Whether that’s leaving a third world country or a small town or a job or relationship. The xenomorphs embody the…

Prometheus is about the desire to meet your maker and how that is probably an unfulfilling venture. You’ll never get the answers you’re looking for. Kind of the same thing as “Never meet your heroes” because you might realize they’re not as amazing in real life as you thought.

Cuckoo is a very strange coming of age story, where the 17-year-old Gretchen has to confront her grief over her mom’s passing as well as the difficulty in accepting her father’s new family and her place in it. She views her half-sister, Alma, as an intruder, while also feeling like one herself.

Rebel Without a Cause is a coming of age story that tries to put the woes of being a teenager into the context of the universe as a whole. For the 1950s, the nihilistic, existential journey Jim Stark goes on was perfect for a generation trying to find its way in the aftermath of World War II.

The season 2 finale of HBO’s House of the Dragon did a cool thing. The show’s two main protagonists are Rhaenyra and Alicent. Season 1, they start as childhood best friends. So, of course, by the end, they’re at war…

What is Kneecap about? Kneecap is a politically-charged movie that transforms the hip hop band’s mission of promoting Irish identity into a full-blown narrative. It’s not just a traditional biopic that tells the story of Kneecap’s origins. It’s a pointed…

What is Trap about? Through Trap, M. Night touches on a variety of topics. The biggest has to do with the contrast between someone’s public persona and their private life. Cooper is not who he pretends to be. While Lady…
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