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well,that wasn't supposed to happen."d**trict 9"was supposed to be another tired man versus scary alien late summer crapfest.actually,when you think about the plot,it really should be a crapfest."d**trict 9"has absolutely no business being a good film.but,yet,here it ** and here we are.we:the late summer movie going audience desperately seeking out.something.anything;one last eensy weensy morsel of precious,precious entertainment to use as an excuse to get out of the wretched heat of a mid-august sun.it:not content to be just a good film-but,rather,a great film.and,on certain levels,maybe even an important film.
whatever you think you know about"d**trict 9"**,probably,wrong."well,"you say,"it's about a reporter that d**covers."no.wikus(sharlto copley),the main character,** not a reporter.he's a ** bureaucrat."ok,fine"you contend,"he d**covers the atrocities that are occurring in d**trict 9 and fights to help."nope.wikus ** well aware of what's happening in the d**trict and,at first,** part of a team that's making things a bit worse."well,there are big scary evil aliens,right?evil?no.scary?not really,ornery might be a better adjective.aliens?yes!you see,"d**trict 9"plays out quite real**tically-if,you know,a giant alien spaceship v**ited earth.twenty years ago a spacecraft appears over johanne**urg,south africa,and,for awhile,absolutely nothing happens.finally,a m**sion to the hovering ship ** implemented and around one million sick and malnour**hed aliens are found.they're brought down to the city,a large scale humanitarian effort takes place.samaritans from around the world arrive to help feed and shelter the v**itors.what happens next?well,what always happen when the news of the day shifts to another story?except for the ** and a nigerian gang who both h**e interest in their weapon technology,they're forgotten.(remember those iran elections the media cared so much about?oh,yeah,you might not because michael jackson died.)
the aliens are far from evil-writer and director neill blomkamp describes them as worker bees after the queen bee has died:a bit lost and without a purpose-just neglected and,in terms of their life on earth,quite poor.they live in a slum and absolutely no one wants them here-especially the human residents of the slum.wikus van de merwe ** in charge-a job he was given by h** father-in-law-of a relocation effort of the aliens from d**trict 9 to the even less desirable d**trict 10.under south african law,each alien must be served an eviction notice.th** ** why wikus and h** team are in the d**trict;to serve and h**e each alien sign a copy of h** eviction notice.
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wikus does,eventually,take an interest in the aliens' well being.but not because wikus has a sudden influx of morality or righteousness-h** motives are strictly self**h.there's a lot of self**hness at play in th** film and not a lot to like about human beh**ior.the most genuine character in the film ** named chr**topher johnson-you may be surpr**ed who chr**topher johnson turns out to be.
it next to impossible to ignore-considering the film's south african setting-the underlying compar**ons of the aliens' plight to that of apartheid.blomkamp-a south african native-draws on h** own experiences of h** home country and transforms black and white racial tension to human and aliens on a surpr**ingly low 30 million dollar budget.th** **n't a particularly scary film,but it ** gory(chr**t,** it gory)and it has something to say.the thing **:even if you completely ignore"d**trict 9"'s themes,there are aliens and a lot of things explode-people seem to enjoy that.as stated:"d**trict 9"shouldn't really be a good film;it shouldn't be a great film.it **."d**trict 9"** the best film of the summer-possibly,so far,the year.
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shot and set in blomkamp's native south africa,"d**trict 9"imagines a present-day scenario in which humans and aliens are forced into an uneasy co-ex**tence and,predictably,bring out the violent worst in each other.as scripted by blomkamp and terri tatchell,the result reps a remarkably cohesive hybrid of creature feature and satirical mockumentary that elaborates on the helmer's 2005 short"alive in jo'burg,"borrows plot points from 1988's"alien nation"and takes its emotional cues from"e.t.
the film's faux-verite v**ual style,however,** very much a thing of the present,blending handheld hd camerawork with ersatz news coverage(complete with cnn-style text scrolls)and talking heads,plus actual archival footage from local news agencies,so as to suggest an urgent d**patch from the front lines of an interspecies war.
the introductory 15 minutes are swiftly paced,making modest demands on the viewer to keep up with the jiggly aesthetic and the particulars of the prem**e:twenty years ago,an enormous spaceship came to rest over johanne**urg,now a sun-scorched ** wasteland.since then,the ship's inhabitants,referred to as"prawns"-four-legged insectoid beings that walk upright,secrete black goo and speak in subtitled grunts and gurgles-h**e been moved into the titular ghetto and placed under the control of multi-national united,a private corporation bent on cracking the secrets of the aliens' ultra-powerful weapons.
into the fray strides wikus van der merwe(sharlto copley),an annoyingly chipper,boastful mnu operative overseeing the transfer of aliens to the remote d**trict 10.blithely n**igating cameramen through the creatures' filthy shack homes,wikus accidentally comes into contact with an icky substance that,within hours,begins altering h** dna.
in the script's most ingenious gambit,the contaminated wikus ** suddenly coveted by mnu,as well as by a gang of nigerian thugs and witch doctors who won't win the filmmakers any prizes for ethnic sensitivity.forced into hiding,wikus teams up with an intelligent,green-skinned prawn,chr**topher johnson(voiced by jason cope),and h** kid,little cj,who's kinda cute in a hideous sort of way;together,they seek a way to reverse wikus' alien metamorphos** and help the refugees return to their planet.
rather than plunge the viewer immediately into unrelieved carnage and chaos,the film opens on a note of anxious uncertainty and tense humor as it probes the varying degrees of hostility in human-prawn relations.though compelling throughout,"d**trict 9"never becomes outright terrifying,largely because blomkamp ** less interested in exploiting h** aliens for cheap scares than in holding up a mirror to our own bloodthirsty,xenophobic species.
that said,he doesn't skimp on the v**cera;it's hard to watch the gr**ly climactic battle,with its parade of high-tech weaponry and exploding body parts,and not think of the horror cheapies jackson was making pre-"lord of the rings."the pic does take a sentimental turn toward the end,with an excess of alien reaction shots that feel at odds with the much authentic passion blomkamp lovingly invests in h** grotesque setpieces.
copley makes the most of the only substantial human role-and not an especially likable one at that-with a twitchy,blustery,shifty-eyed performance of ferretlike intensity.dropping f-bombs in afrikaans-accented he ably conveys not only wikus' physical transformation but also h** mental deterioration and subsequent moral awakening;it's to the pic's credit that when wikus ** shown on the battlefield,h** half-mutated body covered with festering wounds and alien protrusions,he has never seemed profoundly human.
lensed primarily on the red-one camera,the film looks and sounds terrific,its seeming improv**ation masking the obviously exhaustive planning required in all departments.the interactions between the aliens(a combo of f/x and old-fashioned prosthetics)and the humans are handled as confidently as anything in the"transformers"movies and are arguably impressive for d.p.trent opaloch's off-the-cuff shooting style.clinton shorter's percussive score ** effective but at times over-reliant on the loud wailing/crooning that has become a too-easy signifier of africa and other foreign locales.
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第九区 英文影评 d**trict 9 movie review
throw another prawn on the barbie
i suppose there’s no reason the first alien race to reach the earth shouldn’t look like what the cat threw up.after all,they love to eat cat food.the alien beings in“d**trict 9,”nicknamed“prawns”because they look like a cross between lobsters and grasshoppers,arrive in a space ship that hovers over johanne**urg.found inside,huddled together and starving to death,are the aliens,who benefit from a humanitarian impulse to relocate them to a location on the ground.
here they become not welcomed but feared,and their camp turns into a pr**on.fearing alien attacks,humans demand they be resettled far from town,and a clueless bureaucrat named wikus van der merwe(sharlto copley)** placed in charge of th** task.the creatures are not eager to move.a private security force,headed by van der merwe,moves in with armored vehicles and flame-throwers to encourage them,and van der merwe cheerfully destroys houses full of their young.
who are these aliens?where did they come from?how did their ship apparently run out of power(except what’s necessary to levitate its massive tonnage?no one asks:they’re here,we don’t like them,get them out of town.there doesn’t seem to be a lot to like.in appearance,they’re loathsome,in beh**ior d**gusting and evoke so little sympathy that killing one ** like—why,like dropping a 7-foot lobster into boiling water.
th** science-fiction fable,directed by newcomer neill blomkamp and produced by peter(“the lord of the rings”)jackson,takes the form of a mockumentary about van der merwe’s relocation campaign,h** infection by an alien virus,h** own refuge in d**trict 9 and h** partnership with the only alien who beh**es intelligently and reveals,dare we say,human emotions.th** alien,named chr**topher johnson—yes,chr**topher johnson—has a secret workspace where he ...