 Action Jackson asked okay he asked me why do I consider aliens and the abyss movies epistemological now You know this is a I'm answering a question for people who've actually seen the movies So I hope you've seen them so aliens is Is a movie about this? Really really particularly the second right the second But the aliens franchise is about this really really really spooky Horrifying Alien and an alien is particularly horrifying because it is parasitic and is parasitic on the human body. So it actually It lays an egg inside of you and the alien grows inside your belly and then it comes out of your belly So it's fairly disgusting but think about You know, I can't think of anything more Scary and more offensive and more disgusting than that. You've got this real evil right real evil Not evil in a sense that it's doing something That it is evil. I don't know what it is, right? But in a sense that its effect on your life is evil, right? That which harms human life is evil It is evil it destroys human life and it grows and it's almost impossible to kill and it's just this amazing Monster that actually it wasn't a camera who invented but it was the guy who was the director of the first alien Another famous director. I apologize for having a abysmal memory But anyways, you've got this alien and then in the movie aliens You have a team of marines Sigoni weaver who is the only survivor of the previous encounter with it these aliens Which was the first movie alien and a corporate guy and it by the way, the movie is very anti-corporation So it's anti-business in that sense and usually I'm not usually I'm not I don't like movies that anti-business But again because the theme here is epistemological. I don't mind the anti-business side of it so You've got this whole crew then and every one of them Deals with the situation in a different way Every one of them has to figure out how they're gonna survive. So some of them Panicked they die very quickly They're just some of them are consumed by fear They die very quickly The the corporate guy wants to find a way to manipulate the situation, but he evades Essential aspects of reality. He evades the true nature of this alien and the threat that it poses Ultimately dying The only people to survive there are two people basically other than you know, there's kind of a robot But the two people who basically survive one is Sigoni weaver and The beauty of the movie is the Sigoni weaver is super-rational But not just implicit the rationality is not just implicit Who I found these explicit she constantly during the movie says Let's stop and think let's figure this out What should be our next step? How given the nature of the alien? How do we deal with it? How do we take a next step in order to defeat it or in order to you can't really defeat it But how are we gonna survive? I'm gonna save the lives of the people I care about in this group and survive It's a constant issue of mind never evade Never look the other way always deal with the facts as they're in front of you and have the courage and the rationality To focus your mind on a problem and try to say to figure it out in Sigoni weaver in that movie is one of the great great heroes in action movie Because she's so explicitly Rational Now the other character who survives with Sigoni is a marine and The reason he survived is he figures out very early that the only way he's gonna survive is That he attaches himself To the smartest and rat most rational and most experienced person which is Sigoni weaver He watches everybody else act irrationally and he identifies the fact that they're all completely irration and He says if I'm gonna face this enemy if I'm gonna face this evil from gonna survive this Sigoni weaver clearly has the most information clear as the most knowledge and clearly is rational I'm just gonna I'm gonna attach myself to her and I'm gonna do what's necessary a for her to survive and Be for I'm gonna follow her orders because she knows what she's doing and nobody else knows what so he identifies Again conceptually Again, what's what? Puts the fear aside because they're all fake puts the fear aside uses his mind Focuses and deals with reality as it is So that's alien and it's a constant movie where you're constantly in fear It's like a horror movie, but I think a very very sophisticated horror movie and it's the action is fantastic The suspense is fantastic, and I think at the end of the day who character is is amazing. I mean