You have never seen anything like it before...

Rating: 10/10 (16 August 2009)

Seems like the science of fiction is back, with a bang of such power it shutters your reality and redefines it into something new and unknown. Never before have I seen such raw power, a story that delivers a massive social commentary while gently drawing parallels between humans and aliens. Never have I been so thankful and yet troubled, disturbed and yet satisfied.
I have never been so comfortable within my own skin to award a 10 to film without a blink of an eye ever before.
Beyond the eye-popping and super realistic visual effects that knock your socks off, beyond the action sequences that keep you on the edge of your seat, beyond brilliant acting by the lead Sharlto Copley in his acting debut (!!!!!!!), the movie first and foremost comes to utilize the given cinematic tools to deliver - the story. A story that makes you think, at that!
From brilliant 29 year old prodigy director Neill Blomkamp, "District 9" is a story of the people and the people who rule them, set in the wasteland of the world - Johannesburg, South Africa. The setting has been chosen not only because it is the director's hometown, but also because Johannesburg is one of the most dangerous cities in the world to be living in. Clearly, the aliens had no better place to get stuck upon.
Without a single consideration of the rules of political correctness, Blomkamp dives in and takes us along, into "Schindler's List" all over again, smothered with good intentions. "We came with peace", "We mean well" finds a different meaning all too sudden and as an audience you are forced to find your "good guys" to vouch for.
"District 9" is a perfect Academy movie, and I hope to see it in it's lists with at least 4 nominations.
I want Neill to go far...as far as humanly possible, so we would enjoy more of his thought provoking and incredibly powerful visual storytelling without a grain of cover-up or fear of polit. incorrectness.
10/10!