District 9 – Review

To cut it short – We humans are assholes!!!

That thought hunted me after the movie. So, lets talk a bit about the movie itself:

District 9 starts as a documentary/movie… Basically, trailers do not tell anything about the story and that is the best way for it. Whole feeling of unknown is kept from the viewer.

The story goes…

In a documentary narration style we see the report and interviews of various people. We find out that during 80’s above Johannesburg (South Africa) an alien ship appears. It is not known why, but ship is not operational and it just hoovers there above the city.

There is about 1 million aliens on that ship. Their appearance is extremely hideous, but despite that there were attempts to integrate them into human society. That plan kinda fails and there are riots, violence protests etc…

In order to control the whole situation, aal aliens are sent to District 9 (sort of a slum, ghetto) where they live in disastrous environment. Chaos, filth, trash, crime…

Further story develops around Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley), MNU (Mutli-National United) corporation supervisor. Since there are over 1,8 million aliens there is a plan to relocate them to 200km distant camp. Van De Merve is in charge of “Prawns” (as they are called by humans). MNU is in charge, but besides that it is also a corporation that deals with weapons. One of their goals is use of alien technology which can be only triggered by alien DNA…

Not to give too much of a story… Loads of F. words, bad manners, racism, bad morals all integrated into the story telling…

My personal feelings went from disgusted feelings towards “Prawns” to compassion for them… At the end I was literary on Prawns side!!??

So much racism between species, especially from human side makes the whole thing too ridiculous in some moments. If it were not aliens that humans are being racist to, movie would be repulsive and unwatchable!

This way, it gives a whole new perspective on a human rase…

This movie has potential to become a classic… I recommend it – at least there are going to be many remembered moments from it to discuss.

Grade

9,5/10