District 9 was, in my opinion, both terrible and stupendous. I recently watched District 9 for the first time in my science fiction class; it was a dull enjoyment to be honest. The amazing quality of film technique and the great roles portrayed really brought the movie to life for me. Unfortunately this was a blessing and a curse, the movie was so captivating that the gruesome portrayal of the main character’s transformation seemed even more disgusting. I was thoroughly disappointed at the pieces the director decided to show as “realistic”.
The film had an interesting message though, it portrayed human abuse of the “prawns” or aliens. The Prawns were originally cared for but eventually shunned as humans did not want to have to change their life-styles to accommodate the vastly different aliens. The fact that the movie takes place in South Africa must also have poetic meaning; South Africa, the “home to apartheid” just relived its past with the prawns until one man decided enough was enough, to get out from behind his desk and fight back against the human oppression for the prawns. Given he was turning into a prawn and he was no longer accepted into human society, but he still did fight for the prawns. I guess if you took a philosophical approach, such as with Kant’s opinion, he was doing things immorally because of his intent to save himself, but anyway the movie was good in its less gruesome scenes.
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