District 9
Those who know me know that I tend toward a love-affair for the dystopian future. Whether it’s Brazil, Blade Runner or Children of Men, the idea that the future is darker than the present rings truer than any fairy tail of human redemption. So, when I saw District 9 over the weekend, I instantly loved it. It turns the ever-constant “alien story” on its head. No longer is it “what will the aliens do to us”, but “what will we do to them?”
The darkest drive of humans is not hatred but fear; fear of that which is different. District 9 explores this fear with great aplomb. The acting is uniformly excellent, and more importantly believable. The special effects disappear into the story, as they should. And, in the end, enough is left unresolved to leave one wondering what might be and what could have been.
In the end, it is a story we’ve seen before. It is repeated over and over throughout our history, and as the movie visualizes, it will likely be with us until we are gone.
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Eh bruddah,
why so serious..?
no theme, yeah?
pow
~hawaii