Immortal story

movie: Immortal (2004) · 2004-03-24

Immortal (French: Immortel, ad vitam) is a 2004 English language French live- action and animated science fiction film co-written and directed by Enki Bilal and starring Linda Hardy, Thomas Kretschmann and Charlotte Rampling. It is loosely based upon Bilal's comic book La Foire aux immortels (The Carnival of Immortals). Synopsis: The Ancient Egyptian god Horus, who is evidently a space alien, seeks to procreate with a human female, after being stripped of his immortality by his fellow gods.

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Theme	Level	Motivation
alien impregnation of human females	major	The god Horus, who was actually an alien, made a number of clandestine attempts to impregnate Jill.
Ancient Egyptian mythology	major	The story focused on the Ancient Egyptian god Horus, and how he lost his immortality.
coping with mortality	major	The god/alien Horus was determined to mate with a human female after being stripped of his immortality. Having offspring was presumably his way of coping with the reality that he would eventually die.
extraterrestrial being	major	A revelation of the film is that the ancient Egyptian gods were really aliens.
immortality	major	The story follows the aftermath of the god/alien Horus being stripped of his immortality.
romantic love	major	Jill and Nikopol ended up falling in love.
social oppression	major	The New Yorkers deemed to not be human lived as second class citizens. This was explored from the non-human heroine Jill's point of view.
speculative genetic engineering	major	The story is set in a a future where genetically altered humans lived side by side with unaltered men and women. Much was made of the heroine Jill being some sort of genetically engineered person.
the desire to have children	major	The god/alien Horus longed to procreate with a human female.
the god is an alien	major	A revelation of the film is that the ancient Egyptian gods were really advanced technology wielding aliens.