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BurgerKingDiamond:
All I know is I turned it off after 25 minutes because the shaky camera work was making me nauseous. I hate it when movies are shot like this. I don't see why it's necessary. I thought the same thing about Cloverfield.
Mauzy:
--- Quote from: BurgerKingDiamond on October 08, 2009, 03:54:12 pm ---All I know is I turned it off after 25 minutes because the shaky camera work was making me nauseous. I hate it when movies are shot like this. I don't see why it's necessary. I thought the same thing about Cloverfield.
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Its only like that for about the first third (though I may have just gotten used to it...). It seems to morph from a rough documentary (shaky cam and all) into a high-budget film.
Loafmeister:
It was a really good movie. Personally, I think the social commentary would have worked better if it wasn’t in South Africa. As it is, it felt more ironic and akin to someone taking a sledge hammer to my brain saying “SEE … SOUTH AFRICA… MISTREATMENT… ALIENS ARE THE VICTIM… GET IT?” You know, I kind of had that figured out . Still nice to see an alien on earth story not located in New York.
I want to formulate a different theory about the Prawns: perhaps they are not a real race per say but a result of a biological experiment gone wrong, where an attempt to link with a sentient ship resulted in something else entirely. I think what happened to Wikus, happened to most of the Prawns (aside from those who reproduced) sometime in the past. This would explain why some are “slow”; they might have been from non-technical civilizations. The entire ship itself might have basic sentience (which might help explain why the navigation portion detached itself, we’re assuming its Christopher but why drop it off if it can just take off again?). Maybe Christopher is one of the original Prawns, or maybe he’s just one from a highly advanced world that got infected a long time ago. My Would explain why he’s more familiar with it then all other Prawns. Maybe depending on the type of brain structure, becoming a Prawn might mean part of your brain gets overwritten? This might explain Wikus’ appreciation for cat food before he’s fully converted. Maybe most Prawns became Prawns elsewhere, those who couldn’t help them (Christopher’s people) built the ship with the intent not to get rid of them but to transport this “new” species to a new location where they could get a fresh start.
My personal favorite theory is partially the scenario above but that it was to get rid of them, out of sight, out of mind. This kind of makes sense because all the Prawns were locked up and they couldn’t even get out of the ship (humans had to open up the hatch, they were living in crap conditions).
It’s to the credit of this movie that aside from the many social commentary issues, there’s also many questions one can ask on the science behind the “Science Fiction”.
hypernova:
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--- Quote ---pl cheering when the alien ship was leaving didnt make ANY sense. earlier they show how ppl dont really like prawns and want them out of here. and ship that would take them home is......gone! whats so awesome about that and why you clowns cheering?
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You realize the answer to your question is in the very question your raised?
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Think about it. 1 million (or was it 2 million by then?) aliens people want gone, and their means of leaving has just left without them.
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Yes, but it is a step in the right direction, in their eyes.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Loafmeister on October 08, 2009, 06:01:37 pm ---
My personal favorite theory is partially the scenario above but that it was to get rid of them, out of sight, out of mind. This kind of makes sense because all the Prawns were locked up and they couldn’t even get out of the ship (humans had to open up the hatch, they were living in crap conditions).
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That ties in with the Douglas Adams 'B ark' but also you just made me think of the medieval europeans 'ship of fools'...
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