I'm usually a sucker for movies that draw parallels to current issues, especially when it comes to human treatment of one another in the form of racism and discrimination. The prawns and our harsh treatment of them is a metaphorical representation of the white man's treatment toward African Americans, Indians, and any other minority group. It shows how selfishly we act toward something new, out of fear and/or ignorance.
Meanwhile the transformation of the main character into a prawn has many different meanings, the first being to show that the prawn are too human in a mental aspect. Although the main character stopped looking human, he was still the person everyone once knew. This goes into point two, showing that we as humans deny acceptance of certain people for the sake of an image we all wish to maintain. For some reason, I couldn't help but keep thinking of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Thirdly, it displays the truly horrid truth behind many companies, which often-times assume business over human life and morality. As the main character changed into a prawn and became less human, he was also turning into a possession as opposed to a human life. Finally, their is the theme behind the main character, who (while pleasant and jolly toward fellow people) was cruel and heartless toward the prawn. In the end, it took him being turned into an alien to understand what it means to be human.
I'm usually a sucker for movies that draw parallels to current issues, especially when it comes to human treatment of one another in the form of racism and discrimination. The prawns and our harsh treatment of them is a metaphorical representation of the white man's treatment toward African Americans, Indians, and any other minority group. It shows how selfishly we act toward something new, out of fear and/or ignorance. Meanwhile the transformation of the main character into a prawn has many different meanings, the first being to show that the prawn are too human in a mental aspect. Although the main character stopped looking human, he was still the person everyone once knew. This goes into point two, showing that we as humans deny acceptance of certain people for the sake of an image we all wish to maintain. For some reason, I couldn't help but keep thinking of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Thirdly, it displays the truly horrid truth behind many companies, which often-times assume business over human life and morality. As the main character changed into a prawn and became less human, he was also turning into a possession as opposed to a human life. Finally, their is the theme behind the main character, who (while pleasant and jolly toward fellow people) was cruel and heartless toward the prawn. In the end, it took him being turned into an alien to understand what it means to be human.
Speak for yourself, because I have never treated a minority any different then I treat anyone else.
As for the movie, I have not seen it yet, and all of the bootlegged ones are horrible quality so far. BTW, you kinda ruined it for me X5, but it's probably my fault.
You should probably put that thing about him being turned into an alien in a spoiler tag
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Seeing it Friday with mai homies!
Or...
singular....
Anyway, what is it exactly about? I know it has aliens, and I know they are hot wanting to go home, but why?
No spoilerzzz pl0x
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Seeing it Friday with mai homies!
Or...
singular....
Anyway, what is it exactly about? I know it has aliens, and I know they are hot wanting to go home, but why?
No spoilerzzz pl0x
Alien Mothership came out of the sky and floats on top of Johannesburg. The ship seems to be broken, as the aliens are not able to return home, and humans don't want them to because they want access to the technology. Aliens are put in slums and concentration camps and mistreated by humans. The main character is part of the organization MNU, and they are trying to relocate the aliens to a different concentration camp. This man goes through a transformation into the hero of the movie. How he becomes the hero, you'll have to find out.
Did anyone recognize in the more like begining of the movie when it was doing the camera view and had the little black rectangle with the numbers in the corner, and some of the filters of the camera? That reminded me alot of the Halo shorts Neil B. did.
(yes i know Neil Blomkamp directed)
This is by far one of the best movies I have ever seen. the acting, the script, the camera angles, everything. I particularly loved the part where...
aliens weren't immediatly treated like monsters, (I thought the humans would just try and kill all of the aliens, I was pleasantly surprised that it was a pretty deep story).
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