Movie Reviews: District 9
Title:
District 9
Genre:
Science-Fiction
Directed by:
Neill Blomkamp
Starring:
Jason Cope, Robert Hobbs, Sharlto Copley
Release date:
Fri 14, Aug 2009
District 9 is a 2009 sci-fi film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Peter Jackson. The film features Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope and Robert Hobbs. Copley plays the role of Wikus van de Merwe, a bureaucrat assigned to dislodge and move an alien stranded on Earth in a refugee camp of government to another in Johannesburg, South Africa. After being exposed to a foreign substance that alters their DNA, Wikus should work with foreigners to help them escape the planet and save his own humanity.
The title and premise of the film are inspired by historical events that took place in six districts, a residential area in Cape Town in South Africa under apartheid. In 1966, the District 6 was declared “white” in the region by the apartheid government and for decades to come, 60,000 people were forcibly evicted and moved to Cape Flats, 25 miles.
The story was adapted from Alive in Johannesburg in 2005, short film directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by Sharlto Copley. District 9 was 30 million and filmed in Soweto. The film uses a documentary style drill, through interviews, pictures, news and video surveillance cameras to tell the story. A viral marketing campaign began in 2008 at San Diego Comic-Con, and the theatrical trailer released in July 2009. Released August 14, 2009 in North America by TriStar Pictures, the film received positive reviews and earned 37 million U.S. dollars in its first weekend.
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