District 9

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I enjoyed it a good deal but the fuel having the ability to mutant a human into a prawn? That was the one part that really pushed my suspension of disbelief. Sure their technology is based on their biology...but still. When Wikus's fingernails first started falling off I thought it was going to just turn into The Fly. Glad there was more to story.

The point got said to me on the ride home that made me think. At the end of the movie, you see "Main human characters name" as a full prawn, right? So what if all the other ones were once humanoid, but the liquid is so volatile it messes with your genes and turns you into that odd creature. I mean, clearly the DNA is special, considering their technology (That runs off of that liquid) works when they simply touch it, yet it doesn't work with other DNA.