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(Spoiler) Did you want...

posted 14 years ago by magolding
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... the alien kids to be killed at the end?

The character of Hit Girl in KIck-Ass murders more people thant the kids in both verions of Village of the damned, plus Mikey, The Bad Seed, and The Good Son. So why do most audience members whant Hit Girl to live and the other "Evil KIds" to die?

Remember that the kids in Village of the Damned didn't ask to be incarnated amoung billions of often belligerant Humans in an attempt to inflitrate and gain control of Earth. They probably would have preferred to have been born on their home world where it was a lot safer and there wouldn't be any Human kids to tease them about heir oddness.

I say that fimmakers use varius technigues to make you feel affection or hatred for variouss characters and you should try to be aware of that and judge how much characters should be like by objective criteria.

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[–] Smith25 14 years ago

In all honesty, no, I wanted them to live and maybe reform. If David could change that means the rest of them had the capacity to feel emotions and empathize with others. Mara was such a cool character, wish she had lived and gained a more optimistic view on humans.

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[–] whitespirit26 12 years ago

Very true Smith :) Good possibility.

[–] fiatlux-1 11 years ago

I don't believe for a second that the others would have learned a thing or changed a bit.
They were bent on taking over, on being evil. David was an 'aberration' in terms of the others.
He showed the audience that evolution and/or change was inevitable even in their species, whatever they actually were.
But that doesn't mean the others would have become good, or even wanted to.
I was glad they were destroyed.

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[–] fountainhead (323) 5 years ago

I wanted them to be killed. Not only were they proven to be extremely hostile, they and the other colonies had to be wiped out to highlight the moral of Alan's speech about the souls of humans making them the superior beings. The aliens were almost invincible, yes, but their notion of survival at all costs brought all their colonies into conflict with humans and they all wound up dying as a result of it. Except of course, for the one among them who learned to adapt and form an emotional bond with his neighbors.