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Ki Ki..

posted 7 years ago by femmemuscle (110)
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i liked everything about that movie except the stereotypical, role Ki Ki played - which he played gladly for the money or exposure.

Mouth hung open through out the movie

Hat on backwards (Hell, why wear it?)

Uneducated

And no articulation..

Seriously.. At least the director could have made the kid a lot less "stereotypical".. Hell, there were plenty of roles and still are, of traitors of all cultures that are actually, good looking, intelligent, articulate, and still be unassuming.

[–] FredBurroughs (21976) 7 years ago

Didn't he turn out to be an alien all along? If so, he could have been playing up stereotypes to remain undetected.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Yeah. He wasn't what he seemed to be anyway.

[–] Aries (847) 3 years ago

He wasn't always an alien. He was human until the time the 'fixers' came and wiped Charlie Sheen's place clean. They must've switched him then.

He wrote his name on the cooling jacket in Charlie's set up when they first met, which he wouldn't have been able to do if he was alien, cause they have an adverse or even fatal reaction to the cold. He also seem puzzled by the fixers when they showed up to clean CS' setup.

[–] Boromir (10099) a year ago

In my opinion your wrong and he was alien the whole time, I recommend to read this thread:

https://moviechat.org/tt0115571/The-Arrival/58c7609e6b51e905f67ff4bc/Kikialien-the-whole-time

[–] Boromir (10099) a year ago

I suspect that it's a form of backward logic and they actually They satirizing movies stereotypes about black teenagers. Kiki, with his unconventional name, is portrayed as a caricature of a young man from the ghetto. Perhaps they intended to convey that these black stereotypes in movies are completely ALIEN from reality.