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** Plus, as much as it may potentially undermine the story, sadly the "MNU is THAT evil" answer exacerbates the previous more pragmatic answers. As with previous discussion above, they were quite willing to vivisect Wikus without anesthesia and didn't give any acknowledgement of his questions or objections. There may have been practical reasons (pressed for time, unknown potential effects of anesthetic), but at the same time it seems clear they dehumanized victims of hybridization just as they dehumanized the actual aliens. Assuming they didn't know what caused that (when it was implied they already knew), they likely wouldn't consider him to be a reliable source of information.
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**children learn our languages from scratch with reduced mental capacity by the age of four, most people learn new languages without any knowledge of them in 3-4 years. if you are talking about the constant interaction between a social worker and the "people" he is serving, after 10-20 years you would just interaction have most of it down, and note that the humans didn't speak prawn, only understood it.. which is easier than speaking a language.
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*** Humans have done much stupider things in real life; for instance, the US government basically gave the CIA a blank check to whatever they wanted with no governmental oversight. Needless to say, this was an incredibly stupid idea, since they constantly go around overthrowing third world governments. Not to mention, you clearly have no idea how many human rights crimes have been committed by corporations and all they got for it was a slap on the wrist. There wasn't really a bounty on Wikus' head and the guy who was in jail was likely arrested for corporate espionage, which, even if it exposed MNU's corruption, is still illegal. ''In other words, MNU is doing stuff that even most democratically elected ''governments'' wouldn't get away with, both domestically and internationally.'': Welcome to reality, my friend, where corporations are given freedoms that people are not. This was part of the message of the movie: corporations ''can'' and often ''do'' get away with crimes that would get anyone else thrown in prison for the rest of their lives.
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* It bugs me how unblushingly xenophiles switch from one interpretation to another depending on which one is more convinient momentarily: now it's "prawns are just apathetic and disorganised drones and without their HiveMind they cannot stand for themselves or interact with humans in any sentient matter", and then it's "all the terrible things those horrible humans were telling about the prawns were lies! They do care about their kids and they do value life and property, and even if they derailed those trains it's just because they were pissed at those horrible humans for treating them badly". Would you kindly make up your mind, because you can't possible have both.
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* It bugs me how unblushingly xenophiles switch from one interpretation to another depending on which one is more convinient convenient momentarily: now it's "prawns are just apathetic and disorganised drones and without their HiveMind they cannot stand for themselves or interact with humans in any sentient matter", and then it's "all the terrible things those horrible humans were telling about the prawns were lies! They do care about their kids and they do value life and property, and even if they derailed those trains it's just because they were pissed at those horrible humans for treating them badly". Would you kindly make up your mind, because you can't possible have both.
*** That, and the Prawns' behavior changed over time: at the beginning they were just mindlessly walking around and pillaging (presumably because of the disorientation caused by the loss of their leading class), which, among other factors, led to their imprisoning, but later their understanding of what is going on improved to the degree that some of them were able to understand relevant legal issues.
*** Or maybe it was his newly acquired Prawn instinct in action. (Of course, we do not know why would Prawns have such an instinct to begin with.)
**** That, and maybe the fact that South Africa was less industrialized than Europe or Noth America made it more suitable for an eventual terraforming (well, Prawnlandforming).
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** Gangsters are typically violent and self-serving. Why would we expect them to be nice just because they are Nigerian and/or black? And as stated by the above tropers, no one who makes contact with the prawns is shown in a positive light, even Wikus who is our protagonist. The only exception was Wikus' replacement who happened to be black.
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** Gangsters are typically violent and self-serving. Why would we expect them to be nice just because they are Nigerian and/or black? And as stated by the above tropers, no one who makes contact with the prawns is shown in a positive light, even Wikus who is our protagonist. The only exception was Wikus' replacement who happened to be black.
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** Black characters are shown in negative light to tell the audience that condemning the apartheid's racism is NOT the only message of the movie, i.e. the movie is not only an allegory of particular historical events but also a portrayal of the humanity in general.
** Black characters are shown in negative light to tell the audience that condemning the apartheid's racism is NOT the only message of the movie, i.e. the movie is not only an allegory of particular historical events but also a portrayal of the humanity in general.
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*** Aside from the possible climate reasons, perhaps the political climate had something to do with not landing anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Any unknown aircraft/spacecraft passing over North America, Europe, or Asia during the Cold War would have had so many anti-aircraft weaponry and nukes pointed at it. Perhaps if the ship's AI was capable of detecting those defenses, it went for a relatively populated area without as many threats around. It would by no means be out of range of the nukes, but it would be farther away.
** You assume that no one is up there in the ship trying to reverse engineer it. We have been shown that humans are studying alien technology but have had little to no progress. Who's to say that is not the case with the ship as well? Maybe some engineers and scientists got an impromptu trip across the galaxy when CJ took off with them in the ship.
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** Gangsters are typically violent and self-serving. Why would we expect them to be nice just because they are Nigerian and/or black? And as stated by the above tropers, no one who makes contact with the prawns is shown in a positive light, even Wikus who is our protagonist. The only exception was Wikus' replacement who happened to be black.
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** This does not require explanation at all. Why, in Wells's TheWarOfTheWorlds, do the aliens only invade England? This is equally arbitrary.
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** This does not require explanation at all. Why, in Wells's TheWarOfTheWorlds, ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', do the aliens only invade England? This is equally arbitrary.
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** Pretty much every human in the movie except Wikus and said friend is a "shrieking, terrifying, demented villain". Some of those humans happen to be black. Might as well accuse them of racism for making the white characters so evil.
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** Because 1) Christopher is stronger and faster than Wikus and thus has a better chance of survival outside the suit and 2) the suit is a big, big, ''big'' target that is going to draw all the fire. Think of Wikus in the suit as a tank on an escort mission... he's drawing aggro so most of the enemies aren't even paying attention to Christopher.
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** Interspecies prostitution is brought up early in the film. Given that Obesandjo repeatedly asks how Wikus came by his arm, they probably know the official line is crap and want the ''real'' reason.
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** This does not require explanation at all. Why, in Wells's TheWarOfTheWorlds, do the aliens only invade England? This is equally arbitrary.
