Chris Trottier on Nostr: *District 9* on DVD. Finally, I watched this damn film. I’ve been wanting to see it ...
*District 9* on DVD.
Finally, I watched this damn film.
I’ve been wanting to see it ever since it was released in theatres, but I just never found the bandwidth to make it happen. This time, I sat down in my darkened home theatre and really took the whole thing in.
And damn, this is one of the most original sci-fi films I’ve ever seen. It flips a bunch of old sci-fi clichés right on their heads.
Usually, when aliens arrive on Earth, they’re invaders. But what if they’re refugees? And what if we humans do what we often do and stick them in a refugee camp indefinitely?
That camp is District 9.
Twenty years after the aliens arrive, a bumbling bureaucrat named Wikus van de Merwe gets the job of evicting them from District 9 and pushing them somewhere else.
Then he starts walking through the place. And things go BAD. Massively bad.
What happens next kicks off a chain reaction that doesn’t just change Wikus’s life. It changes *everything*.
Now, a lot of movies with this setup would probably hammer you over the head with a political message about helping people in need. *District 9* doesn’t make it that easy.
Like real life, the whole thing is messier than that. A bunch of questions are left hanging, and you’re forced to sit there and figure out what you think is likely to happen after the movie ends.
That’s exactly why I’m glad there hasn’t been a sequel. The uncertainty is part of what makes the movie so damn compelling.
Definitely a must-see for sci-fi fans.
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