Do you think this movie has holes? read on..because it doesn't

Rating: 8/10 (27 September 2009)

After reading all the comments from people who hated this movie because it was about politics and because it has plot holes I had to write this.
First and most important this movie is'n about aliens, this movie is about human nature and racism. If you fell insulted that a director who suffered Apartheid made a movie about it and have to disguise it in a science fiction movie for you couch potato, self-centered Americans to see it, well good for him, he did it!
The "plot holes"
Why aliens with better guns did nothing against humans? for cat food?
1. Humans where trying to help them at first, we gave them a place to live, food and cure them, maybe as humans you think that the natural thing to do was to attack, but maybe this was not THEIR nature.
2.If you check your history you will find a lot of references to this, and that's the objective of the movie: to make you think about this.
How do you explain that millions of civilized American empires did nothing against a bunch of uneducated Europeans who destroyed everything.
As the aliens did, they (Aztecas for example) trusted these Europeans and choose peace, after realizing what these people were about they react but it was too late.
They were not corrupted by money. They didn't want war they just wanted food. (If you find this difficult to accept it is human nature again. As you saw in the movie money is the fuel of all human problems, a civilization without this drive should look VERY different and almost idiotic to us. Humans always thing that a person who do something for free or without a fight are dumb isn't it?)
3. For cat food? Cat food where a drug for them, they will do anything for it, and after 20 years of using it they where completely dumb by it.
Examples in history? Opium, The British Empire used opium to control occupied countries like India or Singapur, it was used also by China.
These "poor" countries did virtually nothing against a bunch of people from a small country far away who came to their territories to impose rules, torture and segregate them.
4. The movie explains that these aliens where the "working class" only, aliens without any leadership. This was not tho say "poor" aliens, poor or uneducated people is the most humiliated and easy to control in all human history.
The real value of the movie is that you can change the face of the aliens to any mistreated people in history or today, American Indians, Pre-conquest Empires, Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Irish or Scothish, Iraquies, Or just people with different views or ideas.
YES, this movie is about THAT, if you fell insulted as human by this (I mean by how advertising made you believe this was an alien movie) don't see it.
If you want and empty action-packed sci-fiction Hollywood movie, it also works for you, but you will find plot holes, if you want to think about human history and walk out with some meaning, you will NOT find any. You will just find pieces of history narrated in sci-fiction form for you to sit for the first time in a movie about it.