Yea man. Some SPOILERS
Those aliens, who also became known by bywords like "prawns" got a lot of the same treatment from those "we" consider poor. I would say black people, whose byword is what we know as the N word. In a soceity where people just can't get their shit together for whatever reasons are outcasted to an ugly part of the city, or the ghetto. These prawns didn't have a home of their own, and when brought down to the earth, they were treated as a potential threat and went thru much of what we see in Africa today. Apartheid, gentrification, etc. The way we see the prawns being patrolled inside the prawns neighborhood was very much like how black neighborhoods are. The way eviction notices and housing replacements happened in this moving is something we've seen in our own human history. The human main character Wikus is a part of this oppression towards the prawns, but once his DNA fuses with the prawns, he slowly begins becoming empathetic towards the prawns; which is ironic considering that he pretty much aborted a hut full of unborn prawns and laughed about it. Anyways, the prawns represented the historically destoryed African people while the human presence in that land became the white european colonialist, just in a modern day type way....mmmm nah, cuz that still goes on today. The representation, policing and political advisment of the prawns was very similar to the treatment of the poor and black.
Haha, and its kinda funny or ironic how the main prawn character Chris kept emphasizing that he would return in 3 years for his people and Wikus. For those who are interested that 2012 stuff, you already know what I'm gettin at.
Those aliens, who also became known by bywords like "prawns" got a lot of the same treatment from those "we" consider poor. I would say black people, whose byword is what we know as the N word. In a soceity where people just can't get their shit together for whatever reasons are outcasted to an ugly part of the city, or the ghetto. These prawns didn't have a home of their own, and when brought down to the earth, they were treated as a potential threat and went thru much of what we see in Africa today. Apartheid, gentrification, etc. The way we see the prawns being patrolled inside the prawns neighborhood was very much like how black neighborhoods are. The way eviction notices and housing replacements happened in this moving is something we've seen in our own human history. The human main character Wikus is a part of this oppression towards the prawns, but once his DNA fuses with the prawns, he slowly begins becoming empathetic towards the prawns; which is ironic considering that he pretty much aborted a hut full of unborn prawns and laughed about it. Anyways, the prawns represented the historically destoryed African people while the human presence in that land became the white european colonialist, just in a modern day type way....mmmm nah, cuz that still goes on today. The representation, policing and political advisment of the prawns was very similar to the treatment of the poor and black.
Haha, and its kinda funny or ironic how the main prawn character Chris kept emphasizing that he would return in 3 years for his people and Wikus. For those who are interested that 2012 stuff, you already know what I'm gettin at.
