District 9

So I had the pleasure of finally watching District 9. Now, a lot of people seem to think it's Peter Jackson's film, HOWEVER he was only the producer. The film is actually that of Neill Blomkamp as he was the director. Obviously Peter Jackson will have had input as all Producers do but I won't divulge into that as quite honestly, I don't know how much input he had.

Anyway, onto the film itself.

It has a VERY different take on your average alien film. First off, it's not about an alien invasion. It's rather the Aliens came to earth accidentally and landed because they ran out of fuel. Us humans being territorial and all that jazz intervened and decided that they had broken their ship and were here to stay, so they imprisoned them in a large shanty town-like place called District 9, where they live.

The aliens are portrayed as animals who have a thing for cat food, and the humans aren't portrayed much better tbh. The humans go in trying to get the Aliens, or Prawns as humans call them, to sign eviction agreements as they want the aliens gone from Johannesburg.

So pretty much it's a nod to concentration camps and essentially racism. All the Aliens want to do is go home. They don't attack humans unless they are under threat, and even then they seem pretty harmless.

I thought it was very well done as you sympathized for the aliens rather than the humans. Also the visual effects were very good! The Aliens looked very real as did the hovering mothership.

This film was rather weird but very good non the less! Check it out if you haven't already, and I will certainly look forward to seeing more films by Neill Blomkamp in the future...