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District Nine
I just saw District Nine and I liked the story. It was done on the cheap for 30 million and is spectacular.
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Dave (imported)
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Re: District Nine
I was too tired yesterday to say much more than a single sentence.
District 9 is much more than SciFi. Yes, it is about ALIENS in a ghetto on Johansburg SA. However, the key word there is GHETTO. To my eyes, D9 is a story of apartheid. To the kid I took (14 year old boy) who doesn't see black and white racism like I did, he doesn't see that.
The hero, Wikus Van Der Merwe (It's a SA name) starts out as a real weasel. He's the son-in-law of a the head of MultiNational Un-corp something is desperately trying to get alien weapons and technology out of the aliens. After 30 years of unsuccessful whatever, they have nothing. So they decide to relocate 1.5 million filthy disgusting aliens 200 miles out in the country, away from city center.
The alien encampment is filthy. everything inside it just oozes filth. And there is crime, drugs (the cat food -- a truly strange item in the movie) and interspecies prostitution? What that meant was thankfully left to the imagination. There is nothing pretty here. It is a slum of EPIC proportion.
Now Wikus, as leader of the pack of humans going to relocate these aliens, has to give them 24 hours notice. But Wikus finds something and therein lies the story. At least one of the aliens is intelligent and he has a way to restart the spaceship. And he has a son.
I'm not going to spoil the story. But if you were like me, a protester against apartheid, you should look at Wikus' black assistant who doesn't get a bullet proof vest and get's called for all the dirty work. It's breathtaking to watch the subtlety of the commentary in the beginning of the movie. Not only that, but medical experimentation in the middle (with a cattle prod) and the final chase, gun fight, battle, with Wikus is an adventure. Wikus does things we want heroes to do. He almost doesn't. It's really up in the air for a long time in the movie.
Plus an added attraction -- the Nigerians are played as smugglers, cat-food traffickers and bad guys... hint: scam email retribution.
For a cheap sci fi movie. Very satisfying. Very well-done story. Movie Mojo says the domestic take in $$$ is already twice what this movie cost to make.
District 9 is much more than SciFi. Yes, it is about ALIENS in a ghetto on Johansburg SA. However, the key word there is GHETTO. To my eyes, D9 is a story of apartheid. To the kid I took (14 year old boy) who doesn't see black and white racism like I did, he doesn't see that.
The hero, Wikus Van Der Merwe (It's a SA name) starts out as a real weasel. He's the son-in-law of a the head of MultiNational Un-corp something is desperately trying to get alien weapons and technology out of the aliens. After 30 years of unsuccessful whatever, they have nothing. So they decide to relocate 1.5 million filthy disgusting aliens 200 miles out in the country, away from city center.
The alien encampment is filthy. everything inside it just oozes filth. And there is crime, drugs (the cat food -- a truly strange item in the movie) and interspecies prostitution? What that meant was thankfully left to the imagination. There is nothing pretty here. It is a slum of EPIC proportion.
Now Wikus, as leader of the pack of humans going to relocate these aliens, has to give them 24 hours notice. But Wikus finds something and therein lies the story. At least one of the aliens is intelligent and he has a way to restart the spaceship. And he has a son.
I'm not going to spoil the story. But if you were like me, a protester against apartheid, you should look at Wikus' black assistant who doesn't get a bullet proof vest and get's called for all the dirty work. It's breathtaking to watch the subtlety of the commentary in the beginning of the movie. Not only that, but medical experimentation in the middle (with a cattle prod) and the final chase, gun fight, battle, with Wikus is an adventure. Wikus does things we want heroes to do. He almost doesn't. It's really up in the air for a long time in the movie.
Plus an added attraction -- the Nigerians are played as smugglers, cat-food traffickers and bad guys... hint: scam email retribution.
For a cheap sci fi movie. Very satisfying. Very well-done story. Movie Mojo says the domestic take in $$$ is already twice what this movie cost to make.
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