cult classic

Rating: 8/10 (22 August 2009)

This is in my mind exactly what this film will become. A few people like thinking of themselves as Sci-Fi fans, I do to, but I can't remember a time in the last few years when I have not been utterly bored by Sci-Fi Flicks, or when all i remember from the movie is some extended dramatic metaphor which at best should have been in a straight drama. District 9, has a message content which is best placed in the movie it is.(yet it is not soppingly dramatical, the action {which is par excellence Spec.Forces like} and the characters, which are well rounded serve as straight knives to tell the story with an emotional force ...which i cannot classify as 'foolishly generic') Living in a foreign country I miss South Africa ..it's diversity, and while others of more cultured states often look down on us, I was glad to see characters which come across with the force and the malignancy of these characters (showing to mass conscious that we SAs are on par) ...some spoke about comic relief. ..(& those who were over-critical of the movie, see in the element I am about to mention... only a message of anti-prejudice... i would argue that no such message is existent. honestly, what message is their in or current dealings with humans.. none, and so there is none in this movie).. these moments were in the Wikus characters mannerism and attitude, frequent swearing (foken, is like f***-en) and the police buddy type friends & eviction notices (aswell as the reports of alien crime, which were of-the-street guys talking about current crime...lol). Also, it was in the Nigerians, and there serious presence in the movie.(that was comic relief to me..not viewed as something ridicules or with a serious.. what info is this type manner).
Cult Classic, because of the force of it's consideration (metaphor of types, what it makes us consider), and in-that it was cleanly cut beginning to end. I could not help thinking of the irony of an Alien Ship choosing South Africa... were else,.. how many different cultures are present there. and where else would an alien be treated with veracity... not god-like status, but with a common parity... i treat and think of u evenly even despite the VERBAL MOCKS (..people can say nothing of u and still treat u as a foreign entity)... ...so in my extreme metaphysical metaphor ...it was a karmic situation of the aliens going to the place where they'd best "just be people"