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In the her text, Popular Culture, Freccero states, “Science fiction most explicitly addresses the political, representing political fantasies through the imagining of alternative worlds, and thus invites the reading of ideological critique” (Freccero, pg. 111). The film Alien: Resurrection is embedded thoroughly with representation of modern day cultural occurrings. In the film’s case, it is tackling issues such as cloning and outside womb reproduction, such as test tube babies, and negative representation of women by degradation from the men. The social commentary is perfectly obvious: the bad guys are the military-scientific establishment, cold, heartless, mechanistic, oblivious to the human consequences of their actions and what happens when women succumb to blunt sexism. This film picks up where Alien 3 left off and certain people have saved some of Ripley’s (Sigourney Weaver) blood and it appears that they have successfully cloned her after eight attempts. Not only have they cloned her, but they have fused her DNA with that of an Alien, giving our heroine the body and mind of a human but the strength and acid blood of an alien. The opening line of the film is Ripley saying, “My mother always said there are no monsters...but there are.” You hear her say this as the camera pulls back and you see her being surrounded by scientists as they prepare to operate on her and deliver her “baby”, an Alien queen that was implanted into the host, Ripley. That statement in the first 15 seconds of the film enunciates the tone and underlying message for the remainder of the film.
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