District 9

[marcus_sez_vote]

After the hell of dealing with automated phone company menus PLUS the "disconnection office" that tries to do everything in their power including use of delays, bargaining, etc. to prevent one from actually completing what you're trying to do, I decided to catch a flick during the day. District 9 happened to be playing nearby and with a matinee

Comments

[shatterdaymorn]

Indeed... I think the best display of the prawn's inability to deal with humanity was one of the scenes with the Nigerians. After they sell the battle suit, one of the Nigerians holding an axe says to a prawn "look over there". The prawns turns his back looking for something and is immediately killed.

That is not an alien that is able to interact with humans out of exploit them.

As for Wikas, I think they went a bit too far in making him unsympathetic close to the end. When he knocks out Christoper or later runs away from him saying "you can keep him", it was a bit hard to stomach for so late in the movie. Sure he eventually helped him escape, but that doesn't forgive his behavior of a few seconds ago.

Overall, I thought it was an excellent movie. I found it quite moving.

Here's the original short, if you haven't seen it.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1185812222812358837

I think you can see why the director was picked to helm the Halo movie.

[marcus_sez_vote]

Yeah I've seen that short. Gives me hope for the Halo movie! Will need to get this on DVD when it comes out.

Be well.