‘District 9′
May 7, 2009 Leave a Comment
Posted with vodpod
New sci-fi film, with a summer release here in the US, bankrolled by Peter Jackson, and directed by South African-born Neill Blomkamp, set in Johannesburg, with a mind-blowing plot:
“… In present-day(ish) South Africa, a group of refugee outcasts is forced to live segregated from the rest of the population in a slum somewhere outside of Johannesburg. (Shades of apartheid much?) Enter the twist: Said refugees are actually a race of extraterrestrial, buglike aliens whose spaceship hovers V-like over the village.”
The film is an expanded version of Blomkamp’s short film, “Alive in Joburg“
The pre-release hype and viral campaign has gotten the film a lot of attention. So has the film’s website.
