District Unwanted

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district 9 - movie posterFilm: District 9

Actor(s): Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and Robert Hobbs

Official Drop Date: August 14, 2009

Blades: 7.5

Review: The movie I’ve been waiting for since July. The movie kicks off in Africa after the aliens stopped over Johannesburg. They were minding their own business when humans forced their way into the ship. Found the aliens and removed them from the ship and placed them in District 9. The aliens have been treated as evil and forced into a fucked up way of living. They have been given the name “prawn” to describe them as bottom feeders. Public pressures “told” the government to move them from the prison District 9 to a new prison. 1.8 million prawns were to be evicted. (Sound familiar so far?)

The government even has a new form that aliens must sign – the aliens cannot read English or write our way but they will “sign” a form? The prawns hit the forms and it counts as a signature. Only a retard would think this would work. Multi-National United (MNU). MNU is the agency doing alien relations and evictions and a worker, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), has been chosen to serve the 24-hr eviction notices. Wikus took pleasure in killing alien babies and is happy that “abortions” were done. Then they burn the bodies of the aborted to add insult to injury. The aliens were not the ones who wanted to go on Earth. But now humans are acting as if they have been invaded. The story has it that slums come with trouble yet it’s humans that created the slums.

district 9 - evictions

Human technology is worthless to the aliens and it has been 20 years of work finding what they need. Wikus found the technology on his greedy expedition to find weapons. After stealing the technology he got sprayed with goo but is excited once he finds weapons. One of the aliens is murdered (as many of them are) as the mercenaries takes pleasure in shooting those who surrender. White people show their asses in this film. They asked the alien if he had a permit for his child, his own blasted child. After they realize that the alien knows he has rights, they threaten to take the child to social services on trumped up charges. (Sound familiar yet?)

Wikus begins to suffer side effects from the spray incident almost immediately. Not only has Wikus gotten sick, but he has also begun to change. The government is beginning to work against their own and the cover-up begins. Harvesting of Wikus starts as MNU sees Wikus as a means to an end. Lies were created and millions turned on Wikus. Now seen as a traitor Wikus must save himself and maybe the aliens. To help shift the insanity from the White people in the film, they show Negros doing voo-doo and eating alien body parts to “retain alien powers.”

Wikus was the epitome of selfish White people, because even after all he has been through the alien was the only one willing to help him. To leave the alien willing to help him and save himself with the technology while risking the life of the prawn and his son was all too familiar. Failing to fly the ship, Wikus was captured by the Negro rebels. At the end of the day Wikus got what was coming to him and the aliens are in no better of a situation for now.

The movie showed a story that is old and has been told in a variety of ways. From Chinese to Jews to Blacks and now aliens, the story remains unchanged as there will always be those who believe they have the right to tell people where to go and when. As Wikus suffered as the aliens did he saw things in a different light, even though he still had his moments of reverting back to the oppressive mentality he was indoctrinated with. His system turned against him and he became the hunted.

district 9 - nonhuman poster

Film gets 7 blades for portrayal but the story remains the same, so no originality points. Saw it for $6 so no handcuffs handed out.

blades: ★★★★★★★½☆☆

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