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Even a comparison to a human language that involves clicks seems fallacious to me. While I suppose I could believe that 20 years is enough time to learn an indigenous African language from the ground up, I find it harder to believe an alien language with no familiar sounds or structure that basically requires a completely different anatomy to speak could be picked up that quickly since neither species is actually even physically capable of speaking the other's language. Even if I spend years around the aliens and think I have figured out a certain few phrases or concepts, I would be incapable of getting any kind of confirmation from the aliens. They can't say the word "yes" or "correct" even if they were capable of learning what I mean when I say those words. They would have to click in a way that I would then further interpret to be "yes." I think this would HAVE to result in a lot more misinterpretation at the very least. With that said, I'm no linguistics major. I just know that I found the clarity of communication that Wikus and Christopher enjoyed to be very difficult to swallow, even with their minor mistakes.
I don't doubt their ability to hide the craft. I doubt their ability to keep it hidden for that long. Considering how closely MNU was watching District 9, it seems impossible to me that they wouldn't have found that at some point. It was just under a trap door.
I'm completely aware of this. You act as if I didn't know I was going to see a movie about aliens. You'll notice that I have no problem with the actual presence of aliens being in the movie, nor the concept of their weaponry being infused with their DNA as a sort of fingerprint technology, nor the unfathomable odds that our planet is actually similar enough to the planet the aliens come from to support them. These are things that come with the territory.
Independent of all of that, the side effect of the fluid is completely arbitrary and is an obvious and relatively shoddily put together plot mover. They needed something to turn the main character into an alien, so they had him squirt himself with alien juice. There's no reason outside of the purposes of the story that it should have had that kind of effect. It's essentially just fuel. Even if it's fuel that has alien DNA in it, it's a bit of a stretch since the Nigerians were apparently eating alien body parts all the time and they weren't changing at all. At best, this is a contrived plot device, and at worst, it's a plot hole.
As you said, it is a sci-fi movie, and for the purposes of the movie, I was forced to accept it and allow it to be what it is. But like I said, it required some serious suspension of disbelief.
Independent of all of that, the side effect of the fluid is completely arbitrary and is an obvious and relatively shoddily put together plot mover. They needed something to turn the main character into an alien, so they had him squirt himself with alien juice. There's no reason outside of the purposes of the story that it should have had that kind of effect. It's essentially just fuel. Even if it's fuel that has alien DNA in it, it's a bit of a stretch since the Nigerians were apparently eating alien body parts all the time and they weren't changing at all. At best, this is a contrived plot device, and at worst, it's a plot hole.
As you said, it is a sci-fi movie, and for the purposes of the movie, I was forced to accept it and allow it to be what it is. But like I said, it required some serious suspension of disbelief.
That's a lotta black bars.
