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So are you supposed to feel compassion for the main character??

posted 10 years ago by Matthewryanburrows
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why would i ever watch this movie again, if i hated the main character?
I just wanted to jump threw the movie screen and shoot the main character dead so i could leave this *beep* movie.
This movie cannot be much fun to revisit....
To the people who do like this movie... what brings you back to it?
Because its not the main character right?
at the end when he wants the love of that girl he can never have all i wanted to do is leave this movie theater and bash my head in with a rake so i could forget it.
that is all.

[–] ehaas-3 10 years ago

The whole world they created in the movie is fascinating. I was more interested in what would happen to the aliens.

[–] diverdwnn 10 years ago

Thats interesting, because i felt a great deal of compassion for the main character. I love the movie for a variety of reasons, but the plight of...(whats his name, vilkas?) is a big part of it.

[–] catjoescreed 10 years ago

I did too. He started out as ignorant but grew immensely through the course of the film.

[–] denise1234 9 years ago

catjoescreed^

"He started out as ignorant but grew immensely through the course of the film."

Agree.

His character arc was nicely done 

"Much communication in a motion, without conversation or a notion"

[–] mimosveta 10 years ago

I liked both main characters, they were both very representative of their respective groups.

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[–] kneejo 10 years ago

Rude awakening, isn't it? To be confronted with the fact that you have been brainwashed to such an extent that you can't even stand to look at a normal, average person playing a heroic part. I should feel sorry for you, but I won't..

[–] Soodinum 10 years ago

*through

[–] guccipix 10 years ago

It was very easy to feel for the protagonist in this film, he was put into an insane situation against his will and he still found a way to be selfless and do the right thing.

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[–] manofsan 10 years ago

Yes, you should feel compassion for the main character, because he makes a voyage from @ssh*le to martyr, starting out as callous but eventually sacrificing himself to do good - losing absolutely everything in the process. The ending is so ambiguous - you wonder what's even left of him at the end. Does he still have his previous intelligence and mind, or did he even lose that too, and is reduced to one of those simple-minded drone prawns. Even if his intelligence is gone, you can see that his one redeeming quality from the start - his love for his wife - still remains intact. That's an important message, and it's shown very poignantly.

[–] scorpiointhesun 9 years ago

Manofsan, you said it precisely. Yes, Wikus is worthy of compassion. This movie leaves me feeling great sadness for him, as well as the Prawn father and son. Excellent films with epic characters are supposed to elicit such emotion, and D9 achieves this.

[–] fede_4488 9 years ago

Maybe if you would explain why you hate the main character then we could understand and argue with you :/

[–] tastytomatoes 9 years ago

My friend hates the main character too (I don't though). She thinks that he should have committed suicide in order to not endanger other humans. She was outraged (a little exaggerated but you get what I mean) when he starts shooting human, his own species. She so wishes the main character to die and the aliens to fail.

Anyway she didn't enjoy the movie. She thinks it's stupid.