Apartheid and corporate abuse

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2009)

Members of the National Party manufactured apartheid as a means of using the judicial system, law enforcement, and the military to cement minority white racial control in South Africa. Two decades in its wake, this excellent film -- part action flick and part social commentary -- is critical of the we/they binary and profit-at-any-cost logics which underpinned apartheid and that obviously inform human/non-human relations in the corporate governance of District 9. Binary logics lose all common sense, though, with a critical turn of events as the telling of Wikus Van De Merwe's story unfolds. Political hope looms, it seems, from inside District 10.