Why did the Engineer at the start of the movie drink the dark liquid?
From the Wikipedia article for Prometheus*:
Above a waterfall, a humanoid alien consumes a dark liquid, and a hovering spacecraft departs. After drinking the liquid the alien starts to disintegrate. The bodily remains fall into the waterfall below and the alien’s DNA triggers a biogenetic chain reaction.
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Answer
As we can see after he drinks the liquid, his DNA seems to desintegrate into the water. But from the particules of his DNA, life is created. It is showed by the particules turning step by step into cellular life.
So my hypothesis is that his suicide was necessary to give birth to a new species: Us.
A friend of mine told me that he might have missed his flight (we can see a ship leaving), but I don't think that it is a good reason to get suicidal.
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