District 9 (2009) Movie Review And Download

District 9 (2009) Movie Review

That Peter Jackson produced it was enough to make me to want to see this, so I tried to stay away from anything else about the movie. I did manage to see a trailer or two here and there and my interest grew a little more from that point. While going to the screening and getting wanded for recording devices, I began to realize just how “under wraps” they wanted to keep this movie. I was only hoping that it was worth all of the trouble. When I left, I felt that it was.

The movie starts out as a documentary to set up what has been happening in Johannesburg over the last twenty years. We are focused on one man, Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley) who is a manager of MNU, an organization that was put together just for this situation. It is a go between agency between the aliens and the humans. We are told how District 9 all started when a ship came from out of the sky and then just stopped, hovering above the city without any movement. It took scientists and investigators from across the globe 3 months before they could open up the ship. When they did, they discovered close to a million aliens inside. They were malnourished and seemed very weak from being stranded for so long. As a goodwill gesture to the creatures, the people of the city blocked off a section just outside the city and constructed very crude shacks and as a place of refuge for the survivors. This became known as District 9. Soon the area became a slum. With so many “prawns”, as the aliens were called, and such a small place, it was only natural. The overcrowding began to become a problem, and this caused the people of the city to start rioting against their new neighbors. MNU decided to step in and, headed by Wikus, relocate the aliens to another stretch of land further away from the city. The plan was to go in and get signatures from the residents of district 9 and then have them evicted within 24 hours. During this time, if they came across any alien weaponry or technology it would be confiscated as well. The thing about the alien weapons is only aliens can use them. The guns seem to be very similar to that of the Earth bound arsenal, but when a human pulls the trigger there is no response. MNU is also a weapons manufacturer and would love to get more of a grasp on why they can’t get the alien tech to function.

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