Henry and Kristl encountered District 9

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2014)

A quick word about this movie.
It has been a while we saw that one... What is it? Three weeks? Henry blinked at Kristl.
We should have talked about it then, Kristl slowly circled her spoon in the espresso Henry had served her.
Didn't know you liked espresso.
A vice I picked up after seeing Limits of Control. Two espresso in that movie. I just stick to the one. Don not want to ruin my stomach and sleep with too much caffeine.
So what about District 9?
We did not get the time to talk about it back when we saw it. And we never took the time after.
Okay. I would that it is an unusual movie.
It certainly is. I liked it.. the story of this guy who is assigned to move those aliens from the slums to another territory. Of course it is also a comment on real happenings in the world. About people being put in a refugee camp and nobody wants them. So they think of a pretense to get rid of them. Move them to someplace far away, not for their good, but because people don't want them. Out of the eye out of the heart.
And there is more. For instance, the similarity with wikileaks. At the end the guy who exposes the company gets arrested and jailed for doing so. It is brought in a certain tongue-in-cheek way.
The filming style is also interesting. Sometimes it is done in a newsreel style and then it moves to a movie style and back again to a newsreel. Mixing these two. Nicely done. At least, it did not annoy me.
And the story was also shifting between styles. At one end it was funny, but at the other also very serious. As in deadly serious. Very deadly.
Also I liked it because it sort of introduced a new kind of science fiction style. We have had good aliens and bad aliens, but these are just aliens. And they don't make them cuddly but also not very creepy.
Yet they still the reminded me a bit of alien.
So, overall a good movie?
I agree with you. A good movie that keeps you entertained. Not a deep psychological thriller, of course. But entertaining with a serious lining.
Seems we haven't got anything more to add.
Well, then you can finish your espresso, and if you're quick about it, I give you another..
Uhm, well..
Come on.. How can you say no to a Henry's Espresso done old style?
Old style?
You don't think I use an espresso machine do you?
You don't? Why Henry, are you....
Fooled you.. of course I use one. Why be tired when you can be lazy.
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