At Diego's Comic-Con, "District 9" wowed its fanboy premiere and set Twitter afire with reports that the movie is one of the most original sci-fi films to come along in
years. Filmed in a quasi-documentary
style by South African newcomer Neill
Blomkamp and produced by Oscar-winning genre-master Peter Jackson, the movie follows the social
and geo-political repercussions of aliens crash-landing in Johannesburg
where they are sequestered in an apartheid-style homeland, treated like
refugees and forced to work for humans. They soon find a kindred spirit
in a
government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.
Thirty-year-old Blomkamp saw "…South African society — both the good and bad of the society
there — and he wanted to put a science fiction spin on what he
witnessed growing up because he's a science fiction geek,"
Jackson during a Com-Con interview. "I really like the idea that here was a guy
who was making a movie based on life experience, not just on some movie
that he was a fan of. 'District 9' is not reflective of any movie that
I can imagine. It's really very original, which I love about it, and
that's totally Neill."
"It all had a huge impact on me: the white government and the
paramilitary police — the oppressive, iron-fisted military
environment," Blomkamp said in an interview with The LA Times' Chris Lee. "Blacks, for the most part, were kept separate from whites.
And where there was overlap, there were very clearly delineated
hierarchies of where people were allowed to go."
After 48 seconds of documentary-style interviews with people expressing
concerns about recent immigrants, District 9 zooms into high gear with
a spaceship crash landing impact. An alien interrogation ensues, but by
then an intriguing framework sells the idea that this won't be your
ordinary special-effects-crazed thriller. The concept for this movie is
unique. In a world where aliens existed the first thing a government
would need to do to manage their existence, with regulations and
restrictions, curfews, news of where you can and can't go.
"District 9" producer Peter Jackson took pains to explain to the LA Times
that "It's a unique take on the science-fiction genre," he said. "It
has dramatized sequences and uses home movie clips. But it's not like
'Cloverfield.' It doesn't remind you of anyone else's movie."
The
movie's off-line promotions employ signage that deliberately echoes
"Whites only" placards once seen in the South as well as cultural
touchstones from Blomkamp's upbringing in apartheid-era South Africa.
"Warning: Restricted area for humans only," reads an ad painted on a
New York City wall.
D-9.com serves as a primer to the
self-contained world of "District 9," detailing security guidelines for
humans and "non-humans."
Posted by Casey Kazan.
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