Of Neill
Blomkamp's direction, known for contributions for Smallville,
Stargate SG-1, and several others TV's series, District 9 is a tale
of an extraterrestrial spaceship that landed on Earth in 1982, more
precisely in Johannesburg, South Africa. After three months, a team
decides to investigate the ship and found out a million of sick
extraterrestrials, just waiting there for the rescue. And, after 28
years, nothing has happened, any attack from the E.T's, any
development on Earth's technology. So the aliens started to being
treated as refugees, as a group of sick things, that don't deserve
any type of respect from humans.
Instead of
thinking about the welfare of aliens the government only cares about
the use of weapons which are within the alien ship, and for that they
need to find a way to remove all the beings from that place, allowing
the free exploration of the ship. But there's a problem. All the
weapons can only be trigged with the presence of alien DNA in the
user. When the MNU (Multi-Nacional United), a company created to deal
with the aliens, decides do send Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlito Copley)
to help the process of removal, the agent is exposed to a strange
biotechnology, which changes van de Merwe's DNA, and the tension
between aliens and humans just escalates.
The MNU
finds out that Mikus is the key to activate the alien technology, and
then he becomes the most wanted man in the planet, only having as
option hiding into the District 9.
Dealing
with a lot of complicated issues, just like racism, prejudice and
social segregation in the South Africa, the country where the
Apartheid happened, District 9 is a really good movie. The director,
Neill Blomkamp, manages to excite the viewer from beginning to end,
not revealing details of his work before the crucial moment. The work
that was made with he soundtrack and the picture was spectacular,
capable of improving the quality of the movie.
Blomkamp
wrote down this movie with the help of his old friend, Peter Jackson,
a well-known director of Hollywood's movies, based on a short film,
named Alive in Joburg, directed by himself and Sharlito Copley, actor
in District 9. The movie's ideas, just like humanity, xenophobia and
social segregation were present in this short-story movie, and the
full movie's name came from a place called District Six, one of those
sites where the Apartheid happened. Such a whole climate was brought
by Blomkamp, bringing to the screen a realistic, gritty and fantastic
of science fiction in this District 9. Perhaps not since Alien, of
James Cameron's direction, or Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's creation,
or even more recently, the masterpiece of Wachovski's brothers,
Matrix, we haven't a movie with this perfection. It have become clear
to everyone that Peter Jackson's view and support to Neil Blomkamp
was right, and the youngest have a long way forward.
