District 9 is a movie that SciFi enthusiasts will nerd-gasm over for years to come. Anyone with a background of liking the genere will find this movie extremely entertaining. It has a loose plot premise that isn't thoroughly explained in the movie, but then again, the movie doesn't focus on trying to explain things. Basically in the beginning of the movie, it's established that an alien space craft mysteriously stopped over an African city, seemingly broke down, and the aliens residing in it are stranded on earth. Insect like creatures are given a small sanctuary of their own which develops into a full-on African slum.Not to be mistaken with other alien involved movies that fall outside of traditional Science Fiction (Transformers), District 9 focuses it's themes on abstracting human nature and transposing it over the extraordinary in an attempt to represent it with a cognitive twist. District 9 gives us two races interacting and the tensions that come from their differences. The actual plot isn't too bad, although the premise itself is the main goal of this movie.
I give District 9 4 out of 5 movie ferrets for being different than most movies cranked out every year... and for being successful at it.
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I might have to see this movie now. =)
This movie was awesome, but completely different than I expected it to be. I went with Tibby, and we went thinking it was an alien movie, when really its not about aliens at all. The fact that those events have happened almost exactly in recent history is a bit mind blowing. Most people don't realize that the events between humans and aliens in the movie is representing the events that have happened in South Africa(where the movie takes place) between white people and black people. This brought a new level of depth to the movie, and if you picked up on all the relationships to our real life, it is DEFINITELY worth watching, and probably more appreciated.
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