Review Life Force 1985
A bad British movie. Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon who also collaborated on Alien. Significant budget, special effects and audio are decent, lots of random zombie makeup that doesn't quite fit the premise, full frontal female nudity, which might have been ground breaking for cinematic science fiction. Terrible acting. In oomparison to the cinematography of Alien 1979, 6 years earlier, Lifeforce looks cheap and amateurish. Also, flashbackies breaks the momentum. We don't want to learn more about what happened on the ship, actually. Schlocky.
Intuition, pattern recognition or maybe just a mashup of the last 4 things I recently watched / listened to, but here goes. Tying back to Anneke's interview and the Network, trauma perpetuated, building a ruling class out of broken people. How did that come to be, spontaneously or superimposed? Then the UFO lawyer dude who's punchline was, the only way humans maintain autonomy is by demonstrating to the alien cops that we are not going to commit thermonuclear suicide. Paraphrasing his mantra, (how may times did he say it?), "the life generating capacity of our planet." That could be yet another control mechanism. "Our alien betters decreed that it must be so, they made us do it. For our own good. We speak to them through diplomatic channels, trust the feed."
An interesting stew of different ideas, the clues are everywhere and I enjoy catching the patterns. Even if just for storytelling.