District 9 Is The Film Of The Year
District 9 will shake you to your core. In fact, it may lead to a core breach, causing you to undergo emergency core ejection through your tear ducts. Possibly your throat if you have a weak stomach. I warn you-- some scenes will be hard to watch, if movies are sometimes hard for you to watch.
D9 is a pedal-to-the-medal combat thriller with lethal gadgets that are imaginative and large.
However, it is also a smart science-fiction film. D9 highlights the entire spectrum of prejudice. The obvious part is the inhumanity of the powerful, in the slum, corporate lab, gangster den, battlefield, and concentration camp. More importantly, that inhumanity is propped up by the banal indifference of a heartless public. In D9, some characters are genial and likable in one breath, and in the next, consider ingroup loyalty to be conscientious and normal. Group identity will not protect them-- that is an illusion. They may be at the back of the line for the meat grinder, but as long as they allow the meat grinder to remain, everyone is standing in line.
D9 is a pedal-to-the-medal combat thriller with lethal gadgets that are imaginative and large.
However, it is also a smart science-fiction film. D9 highlights the entire spectrum of prejudice. The obvious part is the inhumanity of the powerful, in the slum, corporate lab, gangster den, battlefield, and concentration camp. More importantly, that inhumanity is propped up by the banal indifference of a heartless public. In D9, some characters are genial and likable in one breath, and in the next, consider ingroup loyalty to be conscientious and normal. Group identity will not protect them-- that is an illusion. They may be at the back of the line for the meat grinder, but as long as they allow the meat grinder to remain, everyone is standing in line.