Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> I think the prawn part just skipped by me, because it seemed to be more
> of a pejorative name than all the descriptive. Maybe I am just haven't
> eaten enough prawns.
> 
>>     Put another way, it isn't the *only* thing one could assume. One
>> could as justifiably have assumed a totally different behavior, based on
>> other cues in the movie.
>>
> 
> I didn't say it was well implied. There was one other comment, I think
> one of the 'experts' called them workers. It was very vague and I don't
> think I can defend it for that.

For what it's worth I got exactly the same worker class interpretation 
that you did from the movie, but it retrospect it did seem to be more 
implied than made explicit.  I actually sort of like this aspect to the 
movie though since I think a too many explanations would have detracted 
from the realism (since there's not much of a way that the humans in the 
movie could have known about the alien class/species structure anyway).

Overall, this was my favorite SciFi movie since Children of Men came out 
a few years ago, although I did also enjoy Moon.  I'll be curious to see 
how well it ages since opinions seem pretty split on it currently.

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