your racism, let me show you it

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So, District 9 - voted Film Most Likely To Resist Coherent Review For Anything Up To Weeks. I've found it extremely difficult to formulate a response to this movie, not only because of its own political and narrative qualities, but because there's such a buzz about it. Everyone seems to have seen it; everyone has some sort of reaction, either

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This movie splooshed my mind! I loved it. Wikus was the perfect anti-hero, naively bad at first and then developing into something slightly more than a cut-out. Enough anyway to satisfy my need for character depth. It tread very beautifully that thin line between humour and discomfort, as it echoed the bad ol' days. Technically, it was brilliant. I am No Fan At All of shaky cameras, but the editing was spotless, the pacing perfect and the shaky cameras, yes, bloody effective. Oh boy, did I love those alien weapons... I had to laugh out loud at the flying pig! And for a plot line that is in effect quite linear, I feel it took enough detours to keep me guessing how this was going to pan out. My favourite movie to come out of South Africa? Yes! One of the best movies I've seen in a long time? Indeed, yes! I do wonder though whether I've just been particularly susceptible to all the South African signifiers. It was just (a) such a good movie and (b) so South African - I don't think I've ever put those two together in one sentence. I'm very impressed and very happy! (Sorry, R pointed me at your very brilliantly thoughtful post, and I'm in gushing mode right now, so, sorry...)

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Hey, as an unrepentant fangirl more often than not, who am I to diss the gushing? It was a very good film, and where it wasn't strictly very good it was very interesting. (I loved the documentary feel, and wish he'd had the courage to sustain the idiom throughout). Definitely one of those overwhelming emotional experiences - I did the same thing of gushing madly when I'd first seen it, it took me a bit of time to get critical distance, but my feelings are still very positive.

v. happy to see you here, too!