Fornication = Horrible Death

And some people are idiots.

Some people go way too deep into movies.

and I question why one would come here if they didn't think deeply about films, but that is just me.

Charismasloverno5 -
A movie like Alien, or any good movie in my opinion, is one that uses the story as a metaphor while still making the surface story entertaining. Something very difficult to do but very powerful when done right...

[edit] Somebody getting banned....

Nobody thinks it's what I said? The more distracted you are the easier you are to kill? What's more distracting than sex?

In his book, Monsters From The Id, E. Michael Jones suggests that many horror films/stories were created (conciously or otherwise) to represent the supposed horrors of sexual promsicuity. That they are a metaphor for the danger of sexual desire when it is not tamed or tempered in some way.

He takes his case too far, no doubt, but does provide a number of insights along the way. Most impressive is his breakdown of Alien (and its sequels), which he argues is partially a metaphor for abortion and sexual freedom. He demonstrates this through a number of observation:

• The spaceship the crew enters in Alien on the strange planet looks an awful lot like a pair of open legs. Inside, they find eggs.

• The alien itself lives in your stomach and, when it burts out, looks a hell of a lot like a fetus.

• At one point in the series, Ripley is "impregnated" by the alien via a very phallic-looking extension of the Alien's mouth. The aforementioned fetus-like creature in her stomach results.

• At the end of the first film, Ripley cavorts around the spaceship in her underwear with her cat (single woman living alone, anyone?) before discovering that the alien (pregnancy) is lurking there. She then kills it via suction (one way in which abortions are performed), but must watch it dangle outside the ship by a cord placed right in its midsection (ambilocal cord).

And, of course, the spaceship's computer on the planet is called "Mother." There are also countless examples of the "Queen" Alien breeding relentlessly, threatening the crew through sheer fertility; which ultimately is only stopped by Ripley's decision to sacrifice herself.

In other words, Ripley -- the strong, independent woman -- ultimately cannot escape biology, despite using many technological means to try to do so throughout the series of films.