Fear of the unknown turns you into a monster

Xzavier 2021-10-19 10:01:42

Regarding the movie, like many comments before, I feel very heavy after watching it. Everyone has their own feelings after watching a movie. Just like Shakespeare said, there are a thousand ways to orgasm in a thousand Hamlet. I don't want to mention racial discrimination in South Africa, I don't want to discuss Kafka's "Deformation", and I don't want to associate the prawns with the cockroaches in "Rwandan Hotel." What impressed me the most after watching the whole movie was the connection between the protagonist and his wife during the whole process of change. The first impression the male protagonist gave me was weak, timid, and lack of aura. The female protagonist is a rich daughter, but I think the female protagonist should not be a shrewd and powerful type. The sad thing is that people with this personality have a senior leader father-in-law, and the male protagonist with no aura can't even get the cooperation of the armed forces who work with him, and the soldiers don't want to ignore him. The film's narrative method is not much better than "Memories" and "Twelve Monkeys", and all kinds of old-fashioned plots are presented together. However, what impressed me for the first time was that after the male protagonist was infected, he saw that he became an alien arm. He said that I wanted to see my wife. The background of the whole story doesn't seem to explain that the male protagonist has lost his father and mother, so I suddenly felt a little bit in my heart when I saw this paragraph. The male lead was transferred, studied, and used for anatomy. This feeling should be despair and loneliness. When the whole world is on the opposite side of you, you will be used as an experiment. I don't know who you will look for when you are the loneliest, most helpless, and most desperate. The male protagonist has been trying to get in touch with his wife from being caught to running away. What does a person with this personality mean in his life? Or maybe it's the alien who is in charge of the family relationship scenes, and the male protagonist is in charge of the love scenes. He snatched a cell phone and was reprimanded by his mother-in-law when he received the call. Escape is too difficult for a man with the character and ability of the male lead. His wife is like a ray of light to him, and perhaps this is also the best hope that supports him to live in this form. Eventually he received a call from his wife, and I thought he would never get in touch with his wife. However, what disappointed me was that his wife had given up on him in her words. I suddenly felt that in this situation, there is nothing a person can rely on. His good friend of thirteen years stayed away, and a person who resembled his parents later said that I already thought he was dead, and his wife gave up on him. I once had a dream in which I was at odds with everyone's opinions. I have never experienced that kind of loneliness. I don't want to argue about right or wrong. I just want someone to understand and support me. However, I didn't. Later, the host received a second call from his wife. He said you don't give up on me because I didn't give up on you. I still want to hug you like before. I can't help laughing, being in a disadvantaged position, how can I say these things, if it is the other party who has been mutated today, these words can still make people move, and saying these now makes you feel stupid. This call is just a method for the old husband to locate him on the phone and capture him alive for experimentation, so I won’t mention it. In the end, after the male protagonist was completely mutated, the things he held in his hands echoed the things held by his wife. Is this love or sorrow?

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District 9 quotes

  • Wikus Van De Merwe: [Wikus is obviously falling sick] Okay, let's cut some cake!

    [Wikus begins to hallucinate and experience distortion in hearing his own speech, slowing things down considerably]

    Wikus Van De Merwe: C-U-T S-O-M-E C-A-K-E!

  • Fundiswa Mhlanga: [about Wikus Van de Merwe] He was an honest man, and he didn't deserve any of what happened to him.