The protagonist is almost always the character everyone empathizes. A piece of fiction where the author wants the audience to empathize the antagonist is “Home”. A couple of the supposedly villains the I caught myself feeling sympathy for was the main alien Oh and the Gorg commander.
Oh, along with is many other “friends” from another planet come to the planet Earth to take over and hide from their biggest villain, The Gorg. All the humans were sent to one place on the Earth except for on young girl named Tip (short for Gratuity) who is searching for her lost mom. Oh isn’t like all the other characters in the way that he has a unique personality that most of his kind seem to find annoying. He decided to have a house warming party and instead of inviting just his “friends”, he invited the whole galaxy including the Gorg. This made his kind even more mad at him and that’s how he met Tip. It takes a while for Tip to get use to Oh but after a while, they end up being best friends and helping each other out in the tough situations they’re in.
At first, you think Oh is just one of their typical aliens, but after watching for a couple minutes, you discover that he’s nothing like them. Because of him being so different, he can’t seem to find any friends and ends up alone a lot. He is suppose to be one of the bad guys but he turns out to be the character I empathize the most. All he tries to do is talk to people but none of them are willing to give him a chance except for the human Tip. When they are going to find her mother, you can see how nice of an alien he is and that unlike all of his other species, he cares about his family and friends and just wants to make them happy.
Another villain the I empathized in this move was the Gorg once I found out why he was so mad. He was always finding where they settled and destroying their homes, it was like as if he was looking for something. It turned out that the item the king was holding contained the eggs to the whole next Gorg generation and this man that was looking for it was the last one alive. All this Gorg wanted was to keep his kind going and didn’t want to cause any trouble. This makes me have no bad feelings for this villain, Gorg. Seeing him play with the newly hatched Gorg’s, you realise how cute of character he actually is.
This film was able to capture a lot of wonderful feelings thanks to these villains. I always seem to enjoy movies and books more when the author makes the viewers or readers empathize the antagonist and I believe it makes a better story.
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