Every now and again a\u00a0movie comes along that reminds\u00a0me exactly why\u00a0i fell in love with the medium of film in the first place. District 9 is that film for me at the moment.<\/p>\n
<\/embed><\/object><\/p>\nProduced by Peter ‘Lord of the Rings’ Jackson and directed by Neil Blomkamp, based \u00a0upon his short film, this is indeed a powerhouse of Intelligent filmaking allied with some of the most impressive visual effects i have seen in a long time.<\/p>\nAliens have reached earth and their huge ship is hovering above the city of Johannesburg. Following months of inactivity the humans force their way in to the ship only to find thousands of starving aliens barely clinging to life.<\/p>\nThey are transferred to the surface and kept in a compound known as District 9. This soon turns in to\u00a0a slum and has the same social problems as any other slum anywhere \u00a0in the world. Some aliens start venturing out and commiting crimes against the human population. The authorities fearing a backlash decide to relocate them.<\/p>\nThe film centres around Government worker Wikus Van De Merwe. He is tasked with managing the resettlement of the aliens and a search of one\u00a0of their \u00a0homes yields an alien object which fires some liquid in to his face. The resulting problems caused by this \u00a0represents the cornerstone of the film.<\/p>\nWhat is the liquid? why was it there? are the aliens up to something? if so, what??<\/p>\nNeil Blomkamps decision to base the film in South Africa has paid off. The film has that gritty realistic feel, that has more in common with a social documentary than a science fiction film. But this only adds to the realism.<\/p>\n\u00a0There are times when you feel you are watching a socio political documentary about living conditions in the slums of south africa. The 30 million dollar budget is miniscule particularly against the back drop of highly impressive visual effects and action set pieces.<\/p>\nWatch and be impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every now and again a\u00a0movie comes along that reminds\u00a0me exactly why\u00a0i fell in love with the medium of film in the first place. District 9 is that film for me at the moment. Produced by Peter ‘Lord of the Rings’ Jackson and directed by Neil Blomkamp, based \u00a0upon his short film, this is indeed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Produced by Peter ‘Lord of the Rings’ Jackson and directed by Neil Blomkamp, based \u00a0upon his short film, this is indeed a powerhouse of Intelligent filmaking allied with some of the most impressive visual effects i have seen in a long time.<\/p>\n
Aliens have reached earth and their huge ship is hovering above the city of Johannesburg. Following months of inactivity the humans force their way in to the ship only to find thousands of starving aliens barely clinging to life.<\/p>\n
They are transferred to the surface and kept in a compound known as District 9. This soon turns in to\u00a0a slum and has the same social problems as any other slum anywhere \u00a0in the world. Some aliens start venturing out and commiting crimes against the human population. The authorities fearing a backlash decide to relocate them.<\/p>\n
The film centres around Government worker Wikus Van De Merwe. He is tasked with managing the resettlement of the aliens and a search of one\u00a0of their \u00a0homes yields an alien object which fires some liquid in to his face. The resulting problems caused by this \u00a0represents the cornerstone of the film.<\/p>\n
What is the liquid? why was it there? are the aliens up to something? if so, what??<\/p>\n
Neil Blomkamps decision to base the film in South Africa has paid off. The film has that gritty realistic feel, that has more in common with a social documentary than a science fiction film. But this only adds to the realism.<\/p>\n
\u00a0There are times when you feel you are watching a socio political documentary about living conditions in the slums of south africa. The 30 million dollar budget is miniscule particularly against the back drop of highly impressive visual effects and action set pieces.<\/p>\n
Watch and be impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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