Alien Covenant Film Theory

With Alien Covenant, I believe Ridley Scott is making a larger appeal to his alien universe fans as a means to articulate his Iwj criticism of humanity and what we must overcome as we march into the future.

The mural above from Prometheus I believe alludes to Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" wherein the poetic statement he describes "man as a rope tied between beast and the Uber mensch (the overman) or in The alienverse "the engineers." With the creation of David, man must overcome his own creation and beastly nature. This being a scary sci if adventure flick, I think Ridley contends that our journey towards becoming the overman or rather having dominion in creating life that we must do so morally with a sense of our own humanity - unlike the engineers who would have us destroyed and David who is running amok creating horrific monsters simply because he seeks dominion over his creators. Thus Spoke Zarathustra wasn't necessarily about man becoming god but rather us transcending our own primative nature and religious cultural constructs as part of an essential journey to undertake. Alien Covenant and Prometheus similarly seek to illuminate the dialectical nature of transcending both our beastly nature and our esteem to seek dominion over the the natural laws of the universe or with unlocking secrets of creating life.