Name: Anonymous 2009-12-31 14:22
The story: an alien spaceship hovers over urban South Africa for a long time, and finally authorities go up to the spaceship and rescue the dirty, slime covered aliens, cleaning ‘em up and giving them a place to live–a camp called “District 9.” The aliens, who look like giant crustaceans are nicknamed “prawns.” No-one wants them there–except left-wing human rights advocates (typical). They are violent, they maim and kill people, and they are a drain on resources. Idiotic government bureaucrats–finally deciding, under civilian pressure, to get rid of them–come to District 9 to give the alien prawns eviction notices. The aliens laugh and mock them, violently attacking them. One bureaucrat, a happy-go-lucky, not-too-bright bureaucrat (who got his job through his father-in-law, who is in the South African government), gets infected with prawn blood and soon becomes very sympathetic to their cause, given what happens to him.
The movie, shot in documentary/news report style, wants us to feel sorry for the prawns. But I didn’t. I felt they should have dropped a giant bomb on “District 9″ . . . sent me one of the “No Non-Human Loitering” signs as a souvenir (if you are reading this and are from the studio, please send me one).
Think the Palestinians. That’s what I did throughout the movie.
I viewed the alien prawns as Palestinians because they acted just like them (though Palestinians are far more scary). The aliens came from out of nowhere–the “Palestinian people” was invented out of nowhere (since they were basically Jordanians and other Arabs who wanted to get work and then land-squat). The good people of a Western country were nice to the aliens, and they took advantage. . . just like the Palestinians.
The aliens who were a few hundred had a ton of kids, spawning to a number in the hundreds of thousands . . .just like the Palestinians (who became millions). They were a drain on resources and lived and acted like animals . . . just like our friends from the Religion of Peace of the Palestinian persuasion. They were violent–killing and maiming innocent civilians . . . just like you know who. The Palestinians. Human rights activists and lefties were all over the news as apologists and sympathetic advocates for the violent prawns . . . just like they do for the Palestinians (and every other ilk of violent Muslim).
“District 9″ was entertaining, so long as you don’t buy the message. Aliens aren’t people, too. They must be destroyed. They should have been. But I liked the movie anyway. It’s a great statement on how you lose control of your country, your culture, your safety, when you feel bad for those who want to kill you.
The movie, shot in documentary/news report style, wants us to feel sorry for the prawns. But I didn’t. I felt they should have dropped a giant bomb on “District 9″ . . . sent me one of the “No Non-Human Loitering” signs as a souvenir (if you are reading this and are from the studio, please send me one).
Think the Palestinians. That’s what I did throughout the movie.
I viewed the alien prawns as Palestinians because they acted just like them (though Palestinians are far more scary). The aliens came from out of nowhere–the “Palestinian people” was invented out of nowhere (since they were basically Jordanians and other Arabs who wanted to get work and then land-squat). The good people of a Western country were nice to the aliens, and they took advantage. . . just like the Palestinians.
The aliens who were a few hundred had a ton of kids, spawning to a number in the hundreds of thousands . . .just like the Palestinians (who became millions). They were a drain on resources and lived and acted like animals . . . just like our friends from the Religion of Peace of the Palestinian persuasion. They were violent–killing and maiming innocent civilians . . . just like you know who. The Palestinians. Human rights activists and lefties were all over the news as apologists and sympathetic advocates for the violent prawns . . . just like they do for the Palestinians (and every other ilk of violent Muslim).
“District 9″ was entertaining, so long as you don’t buy the message. Aliens aren’t people, too. They must be destroyed. They should have been. But I liked the movie anyway. It’s a great statement on how you lose control of your country, your culture, your safety, when you feel bad for those who want to kill you.