District 9

August 15 2009

DISTRICT 9

This movie was one that Liz and I really wanted to see. We saw lots of previews for this on-line and at San Diego Comic Con. The hype was over the top and all the critics love the movie. I also loved the movie. Plus I think everyone reading this should see it. Not as much action as I would like but still enough and the story was great. The aliens were well portrayed and the living conditions interesting. The movie style was also excellent. A movie people should and will see. I will buy the blue ray of this movie and maybe see it again at the cinema before it's run is done.

I would say 4 out of 5

garry

This was a really interesting documentary style movie. It's been called an apartheid movie as it's set in Johannesburg, South Africa and is about aliens arriving on Earth and how we view them as "other". It's an interesting movie because it doesn't attempt to shove our similarities in the audience's collective face as so many of these movies do. The fact that they are very different to us, both physically and in their dietary habits (which are gross), is clear. As is the fact that this does not justify their treatment which includes being subjected to medical experiments in an attempt to unlock their biological based weaponry and being forced into slums away from humans. It works both as an alien movie (the aliens are 3 dimensional characters whose desperation is obvious) and as a movie about racism. I enjoyed it!

Liz