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Originally Posted by Belmit

This is partly why I gave a final score of 10/10 for the film - Wikus is a very different character from any I've ever seen before. He seems quite jobsworthy and nerdy to begin with; the creepy guy in the office who only has responsibility because of his personal connections to the higher-ups. His views on the aliens don't appear to differ all that much from the general populous and if the mirror of apartheid were knocked down his views and comments would probably be considered racist. He comes across as being of average intelligence also.

That said, we root for him in the film as his dilemma becomes more and more serious. Why? It's an ambivalence I can't quite shake. He has a certain humanity to him but is very selfish on the whole, even towards the end of the film.

It's a bit of a clichéd remark, but I found Wikus himself to be quite alien in so much as he doesn't appear to fit... anywhere.

Briliant film, brilliant characterisation.

I genuinely didn't empathise with him at all. Not in the slightest! I didn't route for him or anything during the film! I felt he was annoying and unrealistic... I couldn't establish a connection even though I really wanted too! The only character I thought "aww, I like this dude" was the kid prawn. That was about it!

I think the film completely missed the point with me!

This... is what annoyed me most:

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The dudey and prawn breaking into MNU. The dude blatantly had absolutely no physical skills what-so-ever and despite being in a great deal of knowledge about prawns and their weaponary and things... his common sense and intelligence was greatly lacking. Therefore, how could HE devise a plan to break into MNU and get back the fluid when there's a mass hunt for him going on throughout the world and only him and one prawn versus an army of people?

Now, putting aside my feelings for him being completely daft as a brush, if it was possible for him to be able to fight with such force and success then how the devil had the other prawns being ruled by a gang of humans with standard guns? Okay, there's a supply of cat food, but their guns and strength versus humans is far more superior... I don't understand why they were so frightened of humans and so willingly drawn to be ruled by them? Obviously they're out numbered but then....

....In such a large community of prawns, why did they all seem just idiotic? These beings have technology that far exceeds ours and yet all they were depicted doing was being volatile and unintelligent minus the one prawn we follow during the film.

It just made no sense. I understand more now the whole who the prawns are supposed to depict now after reading wiki, but it's just so far fetched for me... so many flaws and holes.

Perhaps I was reading too much into it. I think I was expecting more which doesn't help in the broad scheme of things!

Disappointed!


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