mother vs. mother

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2002)

back in 1977, there was only "starwars", then there was nothing for a while, and then there was "alien", the highly contaminated answer to Lucas's clean multicultural splendor.
nowadays the average sci-fi consumer is spoiled by various sagas and serials where female superiors command all kinds of space vessels and task forces, but in the late seventies Ripley was quite a thing to digest for the patriarchal oriented crowd.
no noble heroes fighting final battles for honor and glory. A lone woman desperately struggling to get the hell out of unholy disaster.
that's already what makes "alien" stand out "inter pares". but the intriguing fact that commercial structures showed their dirty and ultimately dangerous face for the first time in a futuristic ambiance, makes it even more clairvoyant.
just another grave sociological forecast we all got quite acquainted with these days...