WHY CAN’T A MAN STAND ALONE? WHY CAN’T AN ALIEN BE JUST WHAT IT SEEMS? The friend I mentioned in my previous post about Attack the Block sent me a really good email clarifying her point. Because there’s one very specific plot spoiler, I’ve posted it over at the spoilerous blog, but the main point is: “…[T]he kids, like the audience, imagined they were in a different kind of movie, and that turned out to be a disastrous mistake.” They needed a different kind of hero from the kind they wanted to be.