I just saw District 9.
It is far and away the best movie that I have seen in a long time.
The most recent trailer is up on YouTube, but embedding is disabled.
Finally, here’s Alive in Joburg, the precursor short film that Neill Blomkamp directed back in 2005:
I feel like a lesser person for not being involved in the production of this film in any way.
I love Alive in Joburg – with some of the ‘interviews’, it is hard to tell whether they are talking about aliens or it is pre-1990 again and they are talking about apartheid. I will watch District 9 tonight. Do you think it was incredibly clever to pick 1990 South Africa for a sci-fi film or do you think it was 1990 South Africa that inspired the sci-fi?
I watched it, and I believe it is the latter. I think it is so littered with re-imaginings of actual political events that it must have originated from a political concept. This is what real science fiction always used to be (Asimov, Wells, Dick, etc.)
Yeap. It’s apparently a reference to the eviction of District 6 residents under apartheid.