Hello, readers. According to the polls, it's time for me to review District 9. This movie is awesome. This is an alien movie with an anti-apartheid message. Oh, and if you're wondering what apartheid is, it's the segregation of blacks and whites in South Africa until 1994. This movie is filmed in documentary form, using archived news footage and other things to tell the story of aliens whose ship breaks down above Johannesburg. The humans give the aliens a place to stay, but conditions are bad and the aliens have very little rights. As if things weren't bad enough in South Africa, the aliens (known as "prawns", because they look like prawns) make other people afraid, so there's more violence. Then, a government agency known as MNU, which is this movie's equivalent of the UN, starts evicting the prawns to District 9. The evictions are carried out by our main character/jerk, Wikus van de Merve, who finds prawn weapons that only work under prawn control. Christopher Johnson, a prawn, makes a canister of black liquid which explodes all over poor Wikus' face. Later, Wikus experiences a slow and gruesome transformation into a prawn. MNU uses him for weapons testing, which is a miserable existence. Lots of action ensues, and MNU agents get messed up. And since Wikus has been transforming, his transformation has progressed to stage hurry-up-and-get-that-bucket-over-there-BLAGHA.
This movie was really good. The public library should actually get credit for having this. In other words, if you haven't seen it, go "rent" it for free!
My score: 9/10
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