Friendship triumphs over evil

Rating: 5/10 (19 July 2013)

District 9 is a modern E.T. with guns and computer rendered aliens. The story is deceptively simple, a growing friendship between a human and the alien ends up with the human sacrificing much to save the alien and send E.T. home. The genre is more Action than E.T.'s Drama as the main escape plot encounters some pretty interesting obstacle and the gory nature of these E.T.s and the human's transformation into an E.T. provides enough tension and intrigue to keep the tight story very engaging.
Pretty awesome.
The filmmaking is very interesting too, with some documentary style scenes to move the plot along. Very different and engaging. The choice of locale (South Africa) and a weird accent with an unknown lead actor make the story easier to believe (like how some foreign films can get away with really cheesy lines and be very impactful because our social filters don't detect the foreign language cheese: like a lot of Anime (Naruto) or some South Korean romcoms (My Sassy Girl)). Pretty cool. A very tight movie.
My Story Chart of the movie is at storycharts.ca