District 9Aliens land on Earth and are put into a slum. Well they call it District 9, but it’s a slum where they are treated as second-class citizens maybe worse. Wikus is a regular guy (a bit nerdy) in charge of evicting the aliens (called prawns) and relocating them to a death camp. Wikus seems to be very happy at serving these eviction notices, and you may not like the guy very much. Now he’s not all bad, but sometimes Wikus can be a real Dikus. But after he accidentally gets exposed to some of the alien fluid he starts to sing a different tune.
The movie is basically showcasing the way we treat outsiders and minorities and anything we don’t understand, and what happens if we suddenly become the outsider.
The first half of the movie is set up as a mockumentary to explain what has happened in the last 20 years with the aliens. Slowly we merge from that to the movie, and when the action starts, it’s really impressive.
One of the titans mentioned the films budget at approx 30 million (imdb backs him up) and that is pretty darn good for a movie that shows the cgi aliens all the time. They are not hidden, or in shadows, they are in plain site throughout the movie and when the alien mech shows up! Wow! What an accomplishment for the film makers!
Great film.
5/5 – will be remembered as great scifi movie!
--J-KraKen--[>
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