# so hot and airless in this overpriced rented shoebox flat that i'm hallucinating an entirely better world whose myth has been kept burning for countless centuries a world of deepest most infinite green and blue a forever more mysterious spiralling labyrinth of existence not a social utopia but simply nature - fully unclothed and supernaturally radiant ## rewatching alien: romulus again tonight there's nothing worse than hearing english wankers unceasingly talk that mockney shite corblimey gov get this fockin alien shed off me face innit utterly hateful i have a theory that the film primarily fails because not each and every single thing that happens in it - every single bit of dialogue - isn't made meaningful and pertinent to the movie at hand like when that english wanker says he's fractured his arthole - is that something we should find relevant or interesting to the context of the actual film currently being shown? - or does it immediately fade into the background to be fully subsumed by the rest of the film as mere background noise to be safely ignored it seems people who make good films realise that every scrap of information being shown is actually relevant to the story being told like when for instance in the original alien movie character kane is being lowered into the egg chamber and he states it's like the tropics in here - you listen - it's part of the overall tension in alien: romulus however things just happen - a character says "the fuel must be in that room let's just grab it and get the flock outta here" and you don't even see their face when they say it totally arbitrary background noise likewise when a facehugger suddenly swims past and a character says "the flock was that?" the viewer's natural response is "you've not made me care so why should i?" // republic of bob