District 9
Written by Administrator Wednesday, 02 September 2009 20:43
District 9 - 7 Cranks out of 10Starring: Sharlto Copley, Vanessa Haywood, Jed Brophy, Nick Blake,
William Allen Young, Johan Van Schoor
Directed by: Neil Blomkamp
At times astonishing, District 9 is plenty enjoyable as an action movie, which gets in its message of tolerance amidst the impressive special effects.
Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is a clueless, mid-level executive at paramilitary organization Multinational United (MNU). He goes headlong into his new responsibility, overseeing MNU’s job to remove the insect/humanoid aliens derisively known as “prawns” from their already squalid slum, and into another concentration camp outside of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Drawing parallels with that country’s disgraceful segregational Apartheid regime that was disbanded in 1994, the prawn aliens in District 9 are kept separate from the population mostly out of distrust of the “unknowable” creatures.
First-time director Neill Blomkamp creates a very convincing alternative reality within his home country, spinning mock news reel footage of the alien landing in 1984 into the fabric of the narrative. The interesting thing is, although the news footage, featuring talking heads, is so familiar to anyone with cable television, it turns out to be just one of the things making the humans the enemy.
The aliens simply want to go home, and not only is MNU looking to exploit their technology, but their hunger for cat food is also taken advantage of by a nasty slum gang. The humans overwhelmingly come out as the unredeemable lot, because the prawns get screwed over at every turn simply because they’re slimy and look like over-grown cockroaches.
7 Cranks out of 10


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