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The quintessential essence of harbouring vast knowledge and eternal wisdom, with just a hint of calm cool coriander, that is an experience close to enlightenment known in English as Ventnor Library holds in its fortuitous wake the DVD of ‘District 9’.
A film that combines a documentary-cinema-verite style, with a political angle of nuance and realism on the subject of aliens and an alien craft appearing over the city of Johannesburg in South Africa.
What is fascinating about ‘District 9’ is that the style that it uses to put across its points, works so well. In much the same way that films such as ‘Cloverfield’ and ‘The Blair Witch Project’ tackled the mix of realism and horror.
The now familiar name of Peter Jackson working as a producer on this project should be a recommendation in itself, yet past experiences have in my opinion been hit or miss.
Directors usually in a tricky situation, formulate either mass blame or mass praise. Neil Blomkamp in this particular case should be praised, for if anything, ‘District 9’ is made as a film with insight and includes extremely well made subject matter, that manage to keep it moving undeterred or distracted.
The film manages to reveal a good attempt at using ‘ant-eater-humour’ effectively without becoming too obvious and carefully underlying morals of a story with just a hinting at the possibility that this is a documented account of a real situation.
Fortunately, there are credits and the acting within the film, along with the detailed effects allow ‘District 9’ to appear as an enjoyable experience with a hanging in the balance menace.
Although it may be simply filed under the immense umbrella term of science-fiction, ‘District 9’ is more gritty-realismo, that is inundated with enthusiasm and could well explain that should aliens be thinking of checking out Earth for a visit, they might prefer anywhere other than Johannesburg.
