District 9 (2009)

[Edgy MD]

This is a decade old and I'm probably the last one to see this.



A giant starship comes to earth and mysteriously stops over Johannesburg, South Africa. After waiting for something to happen, officials cut into the ship to find a malnourished population of aliens warming themselves around the alien equivalent of oil drum fires.



The aliens are moved to a relocation camp in a neglected district of town, and ten years later they are living in poverty and degradation in a situation that's clearly meant to parallel South Africa's black townships under Apartheid. In documentary style, they tell the tale of a shadowy multinational corporation subjugating and exploiting the aliens and the weakling middle-level manager who gets caught in between.



A joint US/South African/Kiwi production.



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[nymr83]

I never saw it, it was buried on my list of things I planned to see...

[Edgy MD]

Me too. Crossed it off this week.

[Frayed Knot]

Saw it shortly after it first came out.

But aside from the obvious parallels to apartheid, I can't really say I recall much beyond that.

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: Saw it shortly after it first came out. But aside from the obvious parallels to apartheid, I can't really say I recall much beyond that.

yeah, this really, still , it was enjoyable

[RealityChuck]

Pretty good film, though I think you need to be South African to get all the nuance. For instance, the name of the main character is generally used in jokes about stupid South Africans (think Polish jokes -- they are "van der Merwe" jokes in Afrikaans).