Starring: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, & John Summer
Directed by Neill Blomkamp
Holy Fuck. I witnessed a true 5 star movie (in my view at least). Everything about this movie got solid 10's. The directing, acting, Vibe, & Story, are just some of the many high points for this film. When I attended this movie the theater was 1/2 full of people, but before the first preview, it was packed. I glanced around and saw just about every skin color, and walk of life in the crowd. I felt then that we were all in for something grand, and this movie didn't let anybody down.....................So our story takes place in Johannesburg South Africa where 20 years ago, a Huge ship just seemed to stop and hover above the city. With no movement or any sort of signs of life, the government just let it sit. After some time the Military opens the ship up and finds a race of Starving and sick aliens. So to cut the fat The government puts the aliens into an area called District 9, which over time turns into a ghetto................over the next 20 years we see the crime rate go up, Mistreatment, and Blatent discrimination to the Aliens reach a dangerous high. I really liked how the aliens were nothing more than a race of creatures that ate garbage, lived life, and got kinda high off of catfood. When we get the current day it is absolute filth. The aliens live in a ghetto run by Militants who control District 9's underground crime ring. It's all there drug abuse (though not really mentioned) Prostitution, Theft, Assault, and Other nasty ghetto like traits. The aliens are so poor and down, that they resort to trading weapons for cat food and cattle heads to eat. The only thing is, humans can't make the alien weapons to work...................So, to keep control of the aliens the government contracts them out to a private company called Multi-National United, which has no intrest at all in the treatment, or rights of the aliens. It is held from the public that MNU's true purpose is to make the alien weapons work, which they have failed. Now trim even more fat, MNU decides to evict ALL of the aliens in District 9 into a concentration camp, and try to find more weapons. So an agent is sent in to evict everybody. While in District 9 The said agent comes into contact with something that alters his DNA and makes him become part alien and part human. Needless to say he is now the most wanted man in the country, and must team up with the aliens to figure out a way for them to get back home and make him normal again........................That folks is an epic movie. I was so enthralled with it that I totally ignored anybody around me and just watched. The Documentary style of shooting gave everything a very sureal feeling. I felt like I was back in my old Neighborhood in Portland OR, and at the same time Like my current Neighborhood. Is that saying that i'm white trash, or a parasite? Thats exactly how these aliens were meant to feel, and for what? Getting stuck somewhere they didn't want to be? I also thought the Hatred twords the aliens was accepted by everyone, thus the nickname the aliens were given. Prawns. That name alone denotes low order of the foodchain..............Man I could go on and on, but I wont. If you have a chance to see this movie, then due so. It has alot of violence and gore, but you get stuck into the movie that it all seems to fit perfect into the flow.
Overall rating ( * * * * * )
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