Review: District 9 (2009)

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I love scifi, and I live in South Africa, 50 kms from where they made the movie. Our local film industry is very sad, but District 9 was great! Very very very very violent, very very very pointed about apartheid. Some hard bits to see, which made it great! But I could never see it again. Way too hectic. We South Africans are very gritty. I was just saying to one of my international pals on Facebook that we don't use the word nice here in South Africa - it would be too anomalous, too weird, too freaky, to unfitting. There are no nice situations here. It's hectic! No one is emigrating to South Africa.... unless they are transferred or living in a place where their limbs are getting hacked off because they don't fit in their social groups.

Commentary. "We were filming in a cleared-shack area of Soweto, inhabitants had been moved to RDP housing. The pollution shocked us in the first few days, but by day three it seemed normal. We normalized."

IMDB District 9 (2009)
Actors: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope
Director: Neill Blomkamp

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